Wout van Aert rode harder than ever on the Finestre to help deliver Simon Yates to Giro d’Italia victory

Belgian put in 'career best performance' according to Visma-Lease a Bike's head of performance

Wout van Aert crosses the line on stage 20 of the Giro d'Italia
Van Aert won stage 9 of the Giro into Siena
(Image credit: Getty Images)

Wout van Aert put in a "career best performance" in order to deliver Simon Yates to Giro d’Italia victory, according to his team's head of performance.

Visma-Lease a Bike's Mathieu Heijboer told Cycling Weekly on Monday that Van Aert's showing on the Colle delles Finestre was proof of the unity in the team, as they powered towards Giro success.

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Tom Thewlis
News and Features Writer

After previously working in higher education, Tom joined Cycling Weekly in 2022 and hasn't looked back. He's been covering professional cycling ever since; reporting on the ground from some of the sport's biggest races and events, including the Tour de France, Paris-Roubaix and the World Championships. His earliest memory of a bike race is watching the Tour on holiday in the early 2000's in the south of France - he even made it on to the podium in Pau afterwards. His favourite place that cycling has taken him is Montréal in Canada.

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