Vingegaard cements his control of Paris-Nice

Jonas Vingegaard (Visma-Lease a Bike) took his second straight stage win at Paris-Nice on Thursday, extending his GC lead along the way.

The fifth stage of Paris-Nice concluded with a series of short but challenging climbs, where Vingegaard once again left the field behind, albeit this time in more traditional attire as the weather was significantly better on Thursday's stage 5 than it had been for his stage 4 win on Wednesday.

Valentin Paret-Peintre (Soudal-Quick-Step) broke free of a group of chasers to take runner-up honors just over two minutes back. Harold Tejada (XDS-Astana) finished third at the head of a small group.

[race_result id=2 stage_id=90039 count=5 gc=0 year=2026]

[race_result id=2 stage_id=90039 count=5 gc=5 year=2026]