Gijs Van Hoecke
Gijs Van Hoecke (born 12 November 1991) is a Belgian cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam CCC Team.[1]
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Full name | Gijs Van Hoecke | ||||||||||||||||
Born | Ghent, Belgium | 12 November 1991||||||||||||||||
Height | 186 cm (6 ft 1 in) | ||||||||||||||||
Weight | 75 kg (165 lb) | ||||||||||||||||
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Current team | CCC Team | ||||||||||||||||
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Role | Rider | ||||||||||||||||
Amateur teams | |||||||||||||||||
2010 | Beveren 2000 | ||||||||||||||||
2011 | Omega Pharma–Lotto Davo | ||||||||||||||||
Professional teams | |||||||||||||||||
2012–2016 | Topsport Vlaanderen–Mercator | ||||||||||||||||
2017–2018 | LottoNL–Jumbo | ||||||||||||||||
2019–2020 | CCC Team | ||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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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
- 2nd
- 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
- 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 |
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122 | |
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— | Did not compete |
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DNF | Did not finish |
References
- "Valter completes CCC Team's 2020 roster". Cyclingnews.com. Future plc. 25 November 2019. Retrieved 1 January 2020.
- "Stan Dewulf and Gijs Van Hoecke sign for two years". AG2R La Mondiale. EUSRL France Cyclisme. 5 August 2020. Retrieved 5 August 2020.
- "Gijs Van Hoecke". BBC Sport. Retrieved 13 September 2012.
- "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.
- "2018: 101st Giro d'Italia: Start List". ProCyclingStats. Retrieved 3 May 2018.
- "Navarro signs with Katusha-Alpecin – News Shorts". cyclingnews.com. 28 August 2018. Retrieved 1 September 2018.
External links
- Gijs Van Hoecke at Cycling Archives