Jørgen Nordhagen

Jørgen Nordhagen is a Norwegian road cyclist who rides for Team Visma | Lease a Bike. He was born on 10 January 2005 in Tranby, Norway, and is a climber who is developing as a stage-race rider. He first came to attention as a cross-country skier: in 2024 he won the 20 km mass start freestyle race at the Nordic Junior World Ski Championships in Planica, and he then chose to concentrate on cycling.

As a junior cyclist he won the Norwegian time trial title in 2022 and 2023, took European silver medals in the road race (2022) and the time trial (2023), and won the Course de la Paix Juniors in 2023. He joined the Visma development team in 2024 and won the Giro della Regione Friuli Venezia Giulia overall, together with the Coppa Città di San Daniele and the Gran Premio Sportivi di Poggiana. He was also third at Tour Alsace and seventh at the Deutschland Tour, where he won the mountains classification. The team signed him on a multi-year deal and moved him up to the WorldTour squad in 2025.

In 2025 he finished third overall at the Tour de l’Avenir, fourth at the Giro Next Gen, where he won stage 8, and fifth at the Tour of Guangxi, where he also won the young rider classification.

His 2026 season brought several general classification results. He was eighth at the UAE Tour, second at O Gran Camiño, where he won the young rider classification, and fourth at the Tour de Romandie. In June he was part of the Visma team that won the team time trial stage of the Tour Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. He made his Grand Tour debut at the Vuelta a España in August and September, finishing 37th overall and seventh on stage 20, in a race where the team won seven stages. On 27 September he was 16th in the elite road race at the World Championships in Montréal. His contract with the team runs to the end of 2027.