Victor Campenaerts

Victor Campenaerts
	Campenaerts in 2020
Personal information
Full name	Victor Campenaerts
Born	28 October 1991 (age 29); Wilrijk, Flanders, Belgium
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
Professional teams
2014–2015	Topsport Vlaanderen–Baloise
2016–2017	LottoNL–Jumbo
2018–2019	Lotto–Soudal
2020–	NTT Pro Cycling
Major wins
	Grand Tours Giro d'Italia 1 individual stage (2021) One-day races and Classics European Time Trial Championships (2017, 2018) National Time Trial Championships (2016, 2018) Other Hour record 55.089 km (16 April 2019)
show Medal record
Representing Belgium
Men's road bicycle racing
World Championships
European Championships

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

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
Giro d'Italia	—	DNF	DNF	111	95	DNF
Tour de France	—	—	—	—	—	DNF
Vuelta a España	143	—	102	—	—	—

Legend
—	Did not compete
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

Preceded by Bradley Wiggins	UCI hour record (55.089 km) 16 April 2019 – present	Succeeded by current record

[lottonl-1] Jump up to: ^a ^b "Transfer news: Guardini set for another year with Astana". cyclingnews.com. 25 September 2015. Retrieved 29 September 2015.

[2] "Lotto-Soudal". Directvelo (in French). Association Le Peloton. Retrieved 3 January 2019.

[3] "NTT Pro Cycling Team". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 3 January 2020. Retrieved 3 January 2020.

[4] "Team Qhubeka Assos". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 2 January 2021. Retrieved 2 January 2021.

[Vuelta-5] "71st Vuelta a España". ProCyclingStats. Retrieved 20 August 2016.

[Giro-6] "2017: 100th Giro d'Italia: Start List". Pro Cycling Stats. Retrieved 2 May 2017.

[7] Windsor, Richard (16 April 2019). "Victor Campenaerts sets new UCI Hour Record". Cycling Weekly. Retrieved 17 April 2019.

[8] "Belgen en uurrecordpogingen: van Bracke over Merckx tot 1-wielers". sporza.be. 16 April 2019. Retrieved 16 June 2019.

[9] "Historisch! Campenaerts verpulvert record Wiggins en breekt door 55 km-grens". sporza.be. 16 April 2019. Retrieved 16 June 2019.

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show v t Belgian National Time Trial Championships (men)
1980–1999	Marc Streel (1997, 1999)
2000–2019	Rik Verbrugghe (2000) Leif Hoste (2001) Marc Wauters (2002–2003) Bert Roesems (2004) Marc Wauters (2005) Leif Hoste (2006–2007) Stijn Devolder (2008) Maxime Monfort (2009) Stijn Devolder (2010) Philippe Gilbert (2011) Kristof Vandewalle (2012–2014) Jurgen Van den Broeck (2015) Victor Campenaerts (2016) Yves Lampaert (2017) Victor Campenaerts (2018) Wout van Aert (2019)
2020–2039	Wout van Aert (2020) Yves Lampaert (2021)

show v t Belgian Professional Cyclist of the Year
Crystal Bicycle	1992 De Wolf 1993 Museeuw 1994 Herygers 1995–1997 Museeuw 1998 Steels 1999 Vandenbroucke 2000 Tchmil 2001 Verbrugghe 2002 Museeuw 2003 Van Petegem 2004–2006 Boonen 2007 S. Nys 2008–2011 Gilbert 2012 Boonen 2013 S. Nys 2014–2017 Van Avermaet 2018 Campenaerts 2019 Evenepoel 2020 Van Aert
Best Young Rider	1994 Trouvé 1995 Hoste 1996 D'Hollander 1997–1998 S. Nys 1999 Hulsmans 2000 Van Goolen 2001 Boonen 2002 De Weert 2003 Vansummeren 2004–2005 Albert 2006 Cornu 2007 Albert 2008 Bakelants 2009 Boeckmans 2010 Eijssen 2011 Van der Sande 2012 Van Hoecke 2013 Decraene 2014 Teuns 2015 De Plus 2016–2017 Lambrecht 2018 Evenepoel 2019 Van Wilder 2020 T. Nys
Best Manager	2000 Lefevere & Bruyneel 2001 2002–2003 Bruyneel 2004 Lefevere 2005 De Cauwer 2006 Lefevere 2007–2009 Bruyneel 2010 Sergeant 2011 2012 Bomans 2013 Lefevere 2014–2015 Planckaert 2016 De Weert 2017–2019 Lefevere 2020 Peiper
Crystal Drop of Sweat	2005 Hulsmans 2006 Steegmans 2007 Vansummeren 2008 Aerts 2009 Vandenbergh 2010 Aerts 2011 Vanendert 2012 De Weert 2013 Vandenbergh 2014–2016 Keisse 2017 Vermote 2018–2020 Declercq
Best Female Rider	2016–2017 D'Hoore 2018 Degrendele 2019 Cant 2020 Kopecky