Mike Teunissen looks back on his time at Jumbo Visma: "It is a period in my career that brought me a lot and that I will never forget"

Mike Teunissen will be joining Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert in 2023. The Dutchman was with Jumbo-Visma for the last four seasons.

"I experienced so many great moments with Jumbo-Visma. It is a period in my career that brought me a lot and that I will never forget," Teunissen told wielerflits. During his stay with the team, he secured five victories, including the first stage of the Tour de France in 2019.

He recalls his first stage victory. "It was the first time in a long time that a sprinter had a chance of winning the yellow jersey. Of course, with Dylan Groenewegen, we had a top sprinter in the team and had actually been working on this stage all year. We wanted to take the yellow jersey with Dylan and write cycling history that way."

He further adds, "After the finish, I did feel I had won. But still you start to doubt because it was so surreal for me. I had never reckoned with this. It came completely out of nowhere. Really an unbelievable day," said the Dutchman.

Teunissen knows he may never get to wear the yellow jersey again. He has framed his jersey in his hallway “so that I can look at it every day." However this season he got the chance to wear another leader’s jersey.

Teunissen was the GC leader after the second stage of Vuelta a Espana so he got to wear the red jersey for one day. "I am eternally grateful to the team for that. The opening time trial in Utrecht was really special. Right after the start at the first corner, you come up against such a wall of noise. I had never experienced that before," concluded the Dutchman.