ANALYSIS: Visma's quiet monument performances exacerbate a disappointing 2024

From being the best team in 2023, winning the 3 grand tours with a spectacular dominance, to completing 2024 in a much more disappointing way. Team Visma | Lease a Bike's season has been very tough from start to finish, as analysed by our Spanish sister channel, Ciclismoaldia.

The Dutch based team has been far from the all-conquering force that stood out from all its rivals last year. In addition to not having won any Grand Tour this 2024 campaign, Visma has recorded a very surprising and disappointing record in the 5 monuments of the season: Milano-Sanremo, the Tour of Flanders, Paris-Roubaix, Liège-Bastogne-Liège and finally, Il Lombardia.

Among all the World Tour teams, the only one without a Top 10 in any of the monuments was Team Visma | Lease a Bike. All the other World Tour category squads managed to put at least one rider in the top 10 at one of the five races.

Visma's best result this year in a monument was Tiesj Benoot's 12th placed finish at Liege-Bastogne-Liege. At Il Lombardia though, they didn't even manage to sneak a single name into the top 20 of the race dominated by main rivals UAE Team Emirates and Tadej Pogacar. Those are tough stats for one of the giants of the UCI World Tour. Below, we show you Visma's best results in each of the five monuments of 2024.

Visma's highest placed finisher at each monument in 2024

Milano-Sanremo.

• Best Visma rider: Olav Kooij - 14th
• Winner of the race: Jasper Philipsen (Alpecin-Deceuninck)

Tour of Flanders.

• Visma's best rider: Tiesj Benoot - 15th
• Winner of the race: Mathieu van der Poel (Alpecin-Deceuninck)

Paris-Roubaix.

• Visma's best rider: Tim van Dijke - 16th
• Winner of the race: Mathieu van der Poel (Alpecin-Deceuninck)

Liège-Bastogne-Liège.

• Visma's best rider: Tiesj Benoot - 12th
• Winner of the race: Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates)

Il Lombardia.

• Visma's best rider: Wilco Kelderman - 21st
• Winner of the race: Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates)