page_title: Primož Roglič
section_title: 2017
hierarchical_section_title: Primož Roglič / Career / LottoNL–Jumbo (2016–present) / 2017
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context_page_description: Primož Roglič is a Slovenian racing cyclist, who rides for UCI WorldTeam Team Jumbo–Visma., started his career as a ski jumper but then shifted to cycling. He is the current World No.1 ranked road cyclist at UCI World Ranking for 30 consecutive weeks.
  At the 2017 Tour de France, Roglič became the first Slovenian to win a Tour de France stage. In September 2019, Roglič won the Vuelta a España, becoming the first Slovenian to win a Grand Tour competition.
context_section_description: 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 the Tour of the Basque Country, Roglič won two stages, stages 4 and 6 – the latter of which was an individual time trial – and finished 5th overall. It did not take long before he got another win; at the end of April, Roglič participated in the Tour de Romandie, where he won the individual time trial on stage 5, en route to 3rd overall. As his last preparation race for the Tour de France, he won the prologue of the Ster ZLM Toer, and finished 2nd overall.
  In June 2017, he was named in the startlist for the Tour de France. He won stage 17 of the race 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-kilometre (1.9-mile) climb averaging 9%. He finished 2nd in the event behind Tom Dumoulin.
caption: Roglič on his way to winning Stage 17 of the 2017 Tour de France.
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