Gijs Van Hoecke

Gijs Van Hoecke (born 12 November 1991) is a Belgian cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam CCC Team.[1]

Gijs Van Hoecke
Van Hoecke in 2015.
Personal information
Full nameGijs Van Hoecke
Born (1991-11-12) 12 November 1991
Ghent, Belgium
Height186 cm (6 ft 1 in)
Weight75 kg (165 lb)
Team information
Current teamCCC Team
Disciplines
  • Road
  • Track
RoleRider
Amateur teams
2010Beveren 2000
2011Omega Pharma–Lotto Davo
Professional teams
2012–2016Topsport Vlaanderen–Mercator
2017–2018LottoNL–Jumbo
2019–2020CCC Team

For the 2021 season, Van Hoecke will join the AG2R Citroën Team on a two-year contract.[2]

Career

In 2011, when he was 19 years old, he was selected to participate at the Track Cycling World Championships, where he won the bronze medal in the Men's omnium. One year later, at the World Championships in Melbourne, he finished ninth in the same event and became Madison World Champion.

At the 2012 Summer Olympics, he competed in the Men's team pursuit for the Belgian national team.[3] Van Hoecke was sent home from these Olympic Games by the Belgian Olympic Committee because he got drunk after his competition was over.[4]

Van Hoecke won the bronze medal at the Madison in the 2013 European Track Championships. During that year, he also won his first six-day race in Amsterdam.

In 2014, Van Hoecke won the Internationale Wielertrofee Jong Maar Moedig road race. In May 2018, he was named in the startlist for the 2018 Giro d'Italia.[5]

In August 2018 he announced that he would join the CCC Team for 2019, working as a domestique for his training partner, Greg Van Avermaet.[6] Van Hoecke remained with the team into the 2020 season; that August, it was announced that Van Hoecke would join the AG2R Citroën Team on a two-year contract, from the start of the 2021 season.[2]

Major results

Track
2008
2nd Madison, UCI Junior Track World Championships
National Junior Track Championships
2nd Omnium
2nd Team pursuit
2nd Kilo
2nd Individual pursuit
2009
1st Omnium, National Junior Track Championships
2nd Madison (with Jochen Deweer), UCI Junior Track World Championships
2010
2nd Omnium, UEC European Under–23 Track Championships
2011
3rd Omnium, UCI Track World Championships
2012
1st Madison (with Kenny De Ketele), UCI Track World Championships
UEC European Under–23 Road Championships
2nd Madison (with Jasper De Buyst)
3rd Team pursuit
2nd Six Days of Ghent (with Kenny De Ketele)
2013
1st Six Days of Amsterdam (with Kenny De Ketele)
3rd Madison (with Kenny De Ketele), UEC European Track Championships
3rd Six Days of Ghent (with Kenny De Ketele)
2015
2nd Six Days of Ghent (with Kenny De Ketele)

Road
2009
1st Overall Giro della Toscana Juniors
5th Overall Münsterland Tour
2011
1st Overall Ronde van de Provincie Antwerpen
2nd Paris–Tours Espoirs
2012
3rd Ronde van Zeeland Seaports
2013
2nd Grand Prix Criquielion
2014
1st Internationale Wielertrofee Jong Maar Moedig
2015
1st Combativity classification Eneco Tour
8th Internationale Wielertrofee Jong Maar Moedig
10th Overall Ster ZLM Toer
10th Ronde van Limburg
2016
6th Overall Danmark Rundt
8th Overall Ster ZLM Toer
2019
6th Overall Okolo Slovenska

Grand Tour general classification results timeline
Grand Tour 2018
Giro d'Italia 122
Tour de France —
Vuelta a España —
Legend
— Did not compete
DNF Did not finish
gollark: That is HARDLY the problem.
gollark: What?
gollark: Yes.
gollark: There are several problems with what I have now: incorrect timings, meaning you sometimes dodge too late; the system not knowing your velocity due to the insane way MC handles this, making it impractical to determine what's going to hit you; the lack of any detection of obstacles meaning you could dodge into walls.
gollark: If I did, I would have implemented that, unless it was very hard.

References
  1. "Valter completes CCC Team's 2020 roster". Cyclingnews.com. Future plc. 25 November 2019. Retrieved 1 January 2020.
  2. "Stan Dewulf and Gijs Van Hoecke sign for two years". AG2R La Mondiale. EUSRL France Cyclisme. 5 August 2020. Retrieved 5 August 2020.
  3. "Gijs Van Hoecke". BBC Sport. Retrieved 13 September 2012.
  4. "Enjoying London life a bit too much? Belgian cyclist sent home after drunken night out". Daily Mail. Associated Newspaper ltd. 9 August 2012. Retrieved 30 November 2012.
  5. "2018: 101st Giro d'Italia: Start List". ProCyclingStats. Retrieved 3 May 2018.
  6. "Navarro signs with Katusha-Alpecin – News Shorts". cyclingnews.com. 28 August 2018. Retrieved 1 September 2018.
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