Primož Roglič

2016

At his first year at World Tour level, Roglič showed his talent straight away when placing 5th overall at Volta ao Algarve. Just one month later he finished 2nd on stage 7 at Volta a Catalunya, when he lost the sprint to Alexei Tsatevich. Roglič started in the 2016 Giro d'Italia,^[6] where he surprised with a second place in the opening time trial in Apeldoorn, being only one hundredth of a second slower than winner Tom Dumoulin.^[7] He won the 9th stage, 40.5 km. individual time trial in Chianti. That came as a surprise for many as Roglič had to use his spare bike because his bike didn't meet the UCI Requirements. This meant he didn't managed to get his Cycling GPS Computer over on his spare bike in time for the Time trial to start. It was therefore hard for Roglič to know how much time he had left of the stage, and what his watt numbers were. Just two weeks after finishing the Giro d'Italia, Roglič won the Slovenian National Time Trial Championships. In 2016 he finished 10th in the Time trial at Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.

2017

Roglič on his way to winning Stage 17 of the 2017 Tour de France.

In the 2017 season Roglič started out by winning the Volta ao Algarve overall. One month later he finished 4th overall in Tirreno-Adriatico. At Tour of the Basque Country, Roglič won two stages, stage 4 and stage 6 which was an individual time trial. Not only did he get two stage wins but he also finished 5th overall at that race. It didn't take long before he got another win. Just at the end of April, Roglič participated in Tour de Romandie, where he won the individual time trial on stage 5. This saw him finishing 3rd overall. As his last preparation race for the Tour de France, he won the prologue of Ster ZLM Toer, and finished 2nd overall.

In June 2017, he was named in the startlist for the 2017 Tour de France.^[8] He won stage 17 of the race^[9] becoming the first Slovenian to win a stage of the Tour de France. He had also collected so many points on the climbs that he finished 2nd in the Mountains classification. At the World Championships in Bergen, he targeted the individual time trial, which finished on Mount Floyen, a 3 km climb averaging 9 %. He finished 2nd in the UCI Road World Championships time trial behind Tom Dumoulin.^[10]

2018

Roglič (left) on Stage 19 of the 2018 Tour de France

The 2018 season showed Roglič potential in the stage races and grand tours. He managed to win Tour of the Basque Country, Tour de Romandie and Tour of Slovenia overall. During the early stages of the 2018 Tour de France Roglič managed to avoid the crashes and mechanical issues that many other GC riders fell victim to putting him in position to compete with the elite riders of Geraint Thomas, Tom Dumoulin, Chris Froome, Nairo Quintana and Richie Porte among others. He was able to stay with the elites through the high mountains answering nearly every attack to the point that after he attacked on the descent and won stage 19 of the 2018 TDF he was in a podium position in 3rd place overall, behind only Thomas and Dumoulin. Roglič finished the Tour with an impressive 4th place finish.

General classification results timeline

Grand Tour general classification results
Grand Tour	2016	2017	2018
Giro d'Italia	58	—	—
Tour de France	—	38	4
Vuelta a España	—	—	—
Major stage race general classification results
Race	2016	2017	2018
Paris–Nice	—	—	—
Tirreno–Adriatico	52	4	29
Volta a Catalunya	44	—	—
Tour of the Basque Country	—	5	1
Tour de Romandie	—	3	1
Critérium du Dauphiné	—	—	—
Tour de Suisse	—	—	—