Danish cyclist Jonas Vingegaard wins his first Tour de France title

By Amir Vera, Wayne Sterling and Jack Bantock, CNN

Updated 0202 GMT (1002 HKT) July 25, 2022

Jumbo-Visma team's Danish rider Jonas Vingegaard celebrates on the podium with the overall leader's yellow jersey after winning the 109th edition of the Tour de France cycling race on July 24, 2022.

(CNN)Danish cyclist Jonas Vingegaard won his first Tour de France title in Paris on the famed Champs-Élysées Sunday.

The 25-year-old Jumbo-Visma rider beat two-time defending champion Tadej Pogacar of Slovenia by three minutes and 34 seconds. Last year,Vingegaard finished second to Pogacar.Vingegaard, winner of stages 11 and 18, is also the second Dane to wear the yellow jersey, cycling's most coveted prize. Another Dane, Bjarne Riis, did win in 1996, but he was ordered to return his yellow first-place jersey in 2007 after admitting to using performance enhancing drugs to win his title.Geraint Thomas, the 2018 Tour champion, completed the podium in this year's three-week race. The Tour de France is a prestigious multistage bike race that takes place annually in France and sometimes the surrounding countries. The race, also known as Le Tour or La Grande Boucle, includes 21 stages and covers 3,328 kilometers in 2022.Read MoreDenmark's Jonas Vingegaard, wearing the overall leader's yellow jersey, competes during the 20th stage of the Tour de France cycling race.Vingegaard survived a puncture at Stage 5 to make a solid start, moving into the top three for the first time at the following stage as UAE Team Emirates' Pogacar triumphed to rise to the summit.At Stage 7, he agonizingly missed out on his first stage win due to a last-stretch Pogacar surge at Stage 7. Vingegaard wrestled the lead and the yellow jersey from the Slovenian at Stage