Gerben Thijssen

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Gerben Thijssen
2017 UEC Track Elite European Championships 168 (cropped).jpg
Thijssen in 2017
Personal information
Full nameGerben Thijssen
Born (1998-06-21) 21 June 1998 (age 23)
Genk, Belgium
Height1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Weight67 kg (148 lb)
Team information
Current teamLotto–Soudal
Disciplines
RoleRider
Rider typeSprinter
Amateur teams
2017–2019Lotto–Soudal U23[1]
2018Lotto–Soudal (stagiaire)
Professional team
2019–Lotto–Soudal[2][3]
Medal record

Gerben Thijssen (born 21 June 1998)[4] is a Belgian road and track cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Lotto–Soudal.[5]

Career[]

Thijssen won the bronze medal at the 2015 UCI Juniors Track World Championships in the points race. He won the silver medal at the 2016–17 UCI Track Cycling World Cup in Apeldoorn in the team pursuit.[6][7] In 2016, as a junior he won 2 stages in the Nations Cup Trofeo Karlsberg, the Omloop van de Vlaamse Gewesten and a Belgian Cup stage in Nederhasselt. He represented Belgium at the UCI Juniors Road World Championships in Qatar. In 2017, as a U23-rider he won the Grote Prijs Stad Sint-Niklaas and a stage in Olympia's Tour. He won the gold medal at the 2017 UEC European Track Championships in the Elite Elimination Race. In 2018, he was the Belgian champion in the U23-category. In November 2019, Thijssen crashed out of the Six Days of Ghent, suffering three small brain haemorrhages before being admitted to intensive care.[8]

In October 2020, he was named in the startlist for the 2020 Vuelta a España.[9]

Major results[]

2016
National Junior Track Championships
1st MaillotBélgica.PNG Omnium
1st MaillotBélgica.PNG Points race
1st Six Days of Ghent U23 (with Jules Hesters)
1st Omloop der Vlaamse Gewesten
Trofeo Karlsberg
1st Stages 1 & 2a
1st Stage 1 Internationale Cottbuser Junioren-Etappenfahrt
2017
1st EuropeanChampionJersey(2016).png Elimination race, UEC European Track Championships
1st Grote Prijs Stad Sint-Niklaas
1st Stage 4 Olympia's Tour
2nd Gooikse Pijl
3rd Paris–Tours Espoirs
7th Ronde van Overijssel
7th Eschborn-Frankfurt City Loop U23
2018
1st MaillotBélgica.PNG Road race, National Under–23 Road Championships
5th Paris–Troyes
2019
1st Memorial Van Coningsloo
1st Stage 1 Paris–Arras Tour
4th Overall Tour d'Eure-et-Loir
1st Jersey white.svg Young rider classification
1st Stage 2
6th Road race, UEC European Under–23 Road Championships
2020
2nd Gooikse Pijl
2021
5th Grand Prix de Fourmies

Grand Tour general classification results timeline[]

Grand Tour 2020
A pink jersey Giro d'Italia —
A yellow jersey Tour de France —
A red jersey Vuelta a España DNF
Legend
— Did not compete
DNF Did not finish

References[]

  1. ^ "Thijssen and Van Moer to become pro on 1 July 2019". Lotto–Soudal. Captains of Cycling cvba. 10 December 2018. Retrieved 4 January 2019.
  2. ^ Odvart, James; Spruyt, Francis (3 July 2019). "Gerben Thijssen veut faire sa place". Directvelo (in French). Association Le Peloton. Retrieved 8 July 2019. Gerben Thijssen wants to make his place
  3. ^ "Steff Cras and Matthew Holmes complete Lotto Soudal's 2020 roster". Cyclingnews.com. Future plc. 27 October 2019. Retrieved 2 January 2020.
  4. ^ "Gerben Thijssen". Cycling Archives. Retrieved 9 February 2017.
  5. ^ "Lotto Soudal". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 1 January 2021. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
  6. ^ "Results 2016–17 UCI Track Cycling World Cup". Tissot Timing. 1 November 2016. Retrieved 19 November 2016.
  7. ^ "2016–17 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Entry List Men". Tissot Timing. 1 November 2016. Retrieved 19 November 2016.
  8. ^ "Ghent Six Day: Gerben Thijssen in intensive care after crash on first day". bbc.co.uk. 13 November 2019. Retrieved 16 November 2019.
  9. ^ "75th La Vuelta ciclista a España: Startlist". ProCyclingStats. Retrieved 19 October 2020.

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