Gerben Thijssen
Gerben Thijssen (born 21 June 1998)[3] is a Belgian road and track cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Lotto–Soudal.[4]
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Full name | Gerben Thijssen | |||||||||||||
Born | Genk, Belgium | 21 June 1998|||||||||||||
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Current team | Lotto–Soudal | |||||||||||||
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Role | Rider | |||||||||||||
Amateur teams | ||||||||||||||
2017–2019 | Lotto–Soudal U23 | |||||||||||||
2018 | Lotto–Soudal (stagiaire) | |||||||||||||
Professional team | ||||||||||||||
2019– | Lotto–Soudal[1][2] | |||||||||||||
Medal record
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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.[5][6] 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.[7]
Major results
- 2016
- National Junior Track Championships
- 1st
Omnium - 1st
Points race
- 1st
- 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
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
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
Young rider classification - 1st Stage 2
- 1st
- 6th Road race, UEC European Under–23 Road Championships
References
- "Thijssen and Van Moer to become pro on 1 July 2019". Lotto–Soudal. Captains of Cycling cvba. 10 December 2018. Retrieved 4 January 2019.
- 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
- "Gerben Thijssen". Cycling Archives. Retrieved 9 February 2017.
- "Steff Cras and Matthew Holmes complete Lotto Soudal's 2020 roster". Cyclingnews.com. Future plc. 27 October 2019. Retrieved 2 January 2020.
- "Results 2016–17 UCI Track Cycling World Cup". Tissot Timing. 1 November 2016. Retrieved 19 November 2016.
- "2016–17 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Entry List Men". Tissot Timing. 1 November 2016. Retrieved 19 November 2016.
- "Ghent Six Day: Gerben Thijssen in intensive care after crash on first day". bbc.co.uk. 13 November 2019. Retrieved 16 November 2019.
External links
- Gerben Thijssen at ProCyclingStats