One of the current best Pro cycling teams in the world, Team Jumbo-Visma, join Visma Ski Classics in Marcialonga to learn more about long distance skiing.
It is the title partner of Visma Ski Classics, the cloud software company Visma, bringing the two sports together at Marcialonga. Visma is one of the main sponsors of Team Jumbo-Visma and invited the Pro cycling team to join them for Marcialonga, the sixth stage of the tour in Visma Ski Classics. The big star of Team Jumbo-Visma and number 1 on the world ranking, Primoz Roglic, is used to winter sports since he started his sports career in ski jumping before he put all focus on cycling. In 2019 Roglic got a 3rd place at the Giro D’Italia, won Vuelta a España, Tirreno-Adriatico and Tour de Romandie.
“Visma Ski Classics has from the start ten years ago gained inspiration from the cycling sport. The passion for the team, the strategical thinking during the races, adding excitement from sprint and climb checkpoints, there are many things to be found in our tour inspired from the pro cycling sport. To share knowledge and experiences at Marcialonga with Team Jumbo-Visma will be truly exciting.” Says David Nilsson CEO Visma Ski Classics.
“I’m looking forward to get to know the world of the Visma Ski Classics. It is a new world for us, but we see a lot of overlaps in the sport, in the training and the organisation. Thanks to Visma we are able to learn from the sport, the organisation and the popularity. With our development team we trained on skis in Norway, and we found it performance wise a good addition to our program. Primoz Roglic told us already a lot about the sport, maybe it can inspire us to some new roads.” Says Richard Plugge, General Manager at Team Jumbo-Visma.
