primoz roglic

The impressive sportsman Primož Roglič is a professional road racing cyclist, and one of the most successful Slovenian cyclists of all time. His greatest achievements include winning the Tour de France in 2020, the Vuelta a España in 2019, and the Giro d’Italia in 2021. He is also a successful cyclo-cross rider, having won the UCI World Cup in 2016, as well as being a 4x national cyclo-cross champion. He has been named the 5x Slovenian Road Cyclist of the Year, a 2x Slovenian Sportsman of the Year, and in 2020 was awarded the Vélo d’Or.

Born and raised in SR Slovenia in former Yugoslavia, Roglič initially started out as a ski jumper, and was the Junior World Team event champion in 2007, and has two Continental Cup wins. He gave up skiing in 2012 and took up cycling, and he began his professional cycling career in 2013 when he joined Team Adria Mobil. He took his first professional win the following year at the Tour d’Azerbaïdjan. In 2016 he joined LottoNL-Jumbo and has since gone on to claim huge success in the saddle, including winning three individual stages at the Tour de France (2017, 2018, and 2020), three individual stages at the Giro d’Italia (2016, and 2019), and ten individual stages (2019, 2020, 2021, 2022) at the Vuelta a España.

Roglič regularly connects with his hundreds of thousands of followers and fans through Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter, posting pictures and comments about his life on two-wheels. He also has an official website, primozroglic.com.