Victor Campenaerts
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Personal information | |
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Full name | Victor Campenaerts |
Born | Wilrijk, Flanders, Belgium | 28 October 1991
Height | 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) |
Weight | 72 kg (159 lb) |
Team information | |
Current team | Team Qhubeka NextHash |
Discipline | Road |
Role | Rider |
Rider type | Time triallist[1] |
Professional teams | |
2014–2015 | Topsport Vlaanderen–Baloise |
2016–2017 | LottoNL–Jumbo |
2018–2019 | Lotto–Soudal[2] |
2020– | NTT Pro Cycling[3] |
Major wins | |
Grand Tours
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Victor Campenaerts (born 28 October 1991) is a Belgian racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Team Qhubeka NextHash.[4]
Career[]
He rode at the 2014 UCI Road World Championships. In September 2015 it was announced that he would join the UCI World Tour ranks in 2016 with LottoNL–Jumbo.[1] He was named in the startlist for the 2016 Vuelta a España[5] and the start list for the 2017 Giro d'Italia.[6]
On 16 April 2019, at the Aguascalientes Bicentenary Velodrome in Aguascalientes, Mexico, Campenaerts broke the hour record, riding 55.089 km (34.231 mi), surpassing Bradley Wiggins' mark of 54.526 km (33.881 mi) set on 7 June 2015, a record that Wiggins held for 3 years, 10 months and 9 days.[7] In doing so, he becomes the third Belgian cyclist in history to hold the Hour Record since Eddy Merckx who last held the record between 1972 and 1984 and Ferdinand Bracke in 1967.[8][9]
Major results[]
- 2013
- 1st
Time trial, UEC European Under–23 Road Championships
- 1st
Time trial, National Under–23 Road Championships
- 8th Time trial, UCI Road World Under–23 Championships
- 8th Antwerpse Havenpijl
- 2015
- 1st Duo Normand (with Jelle Wallays)
- 2nd Overall Tour de Wallonie
- 1st
Young rider classification
- 1st
- 4th Overall Ster ZLM Toer
- 5th Time trial, National Road Championships
- 10th Boucles de la Mayenne
- 2016
- 1st
Time trial, National Road Championships
- 2nd
Time trial, UEC European Road Championships
- 2017
- 1st
Time trial, UEC European Road Championships
- 1st Stage 3 (ITT) Vuelta a Andalucía
- 2nd Time trial, National Road Championships
- 4th Overall Tour of Britain
- 5th Chrono des Nations
- 9th Brabantse Pijl
- 10th Rund um Köln
- 2018
- 1st
Time trial, UEC European Road Championships
- 1st
Time trial, National Road Championships
- 3rd
Time trial, UCI Road World Championships
- 2019
- Hour record: 55.089 km
- 1st Stage 7 (ITT) Tirreno–Adriatico
- 2nd Overall Tour of Belgium
- 1st Stage 4
- 4th Time trial, National Road Championships
- 2020
- 2nd Time trial, National Road Championships
- 3rd
Time trial, UEC European Road Championships
- 8th Time trial, UCI Road World Championships
- 2021
- 1st Stage 15 Giro d'Italia
- 3rd Overall Benelux Tour
- 3rd Time trial, National Road Championships
- 10th Road race, UEC European Road Championships
Grand Tour general classification results timeline[]
Grand Tour | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 |
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— | DNF | DNF | 111 | 95 | DNF |
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— | — | — | — | — | DNF |
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143 | — | 102 | — | — | — |
— | Did not compete |
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DNF | Did not finish |
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Transfer news: Guardini set for another year with Astana". cyclingnews.com. 25 September 2015. Retrieved 29 September 2015.
- ^ "Lotto-Soudal". Directvelo (in French). Association Le Peloton. Retrieved 3 January 2019.
- ^ "NTT Pro Cycling Team". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 3 January 2020. Retrieved 3 January 2020.
- ^ "Team Qhubeka Assos". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 2 January 2021. Retrieved 2 January 2021.
- ^ "71st Vuelta a España". ProCyclingStats. Retrieved 20 August 2016.
- ^ "2017: 100th Giro d'Italia: Start List". Pro Cycling Stats. Retrieved 2 May 2017.
- ^ Windsor, Richard (16 April 2019). "Victor Campenaerts sets new UCI Hour Record". Cycling Weekly. Retrieved 17 April 2019.
- ^ "Belgen en uurrecordpogingen: van Bracke over Merckx tot 1-wielers". sporza.be. 16 April 2019. Retrieved 16 June 2019.
- ^ "Historisch! Campenaerts verpulvert record Wiggins en breekt door 55 km-grens". sporza.be. 16 April 2019. Retrieved 16 June 2019.
External links[]
- Victor Campenaerts at Cycling Archives
- Victor Campenaerts at ProCyclingStats
- Victor Campenaerts at Cycling Quotient
- 1991 births
- Living people
- Belgian male cyclists
- Belgian Giro d'Italia stage winners
- Cyclists from Antwerp
- People from Wilrijk