Belgian racing cyclist
Gijs Van Hoecke (born 12 November 1991) is a Belgian cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Intermarché–Wanty .[5]
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, and the men's omnium.[6] [7]
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 .[8]
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 .[9] 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.[3]
Major results
Track
2008
2nd Madison, UCI Junior Track Cycling 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, UCI Juniors Track World Championships (with Jochen Deweer)
2010
2nd Omnium, UEC European Under-23 Track Championships
2nd Scratch, 2010–11 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics , Cali
2011
1st Scratch, 2011–12 UCI Track Cycling World Cup , Astana
3rd Omnium , UCI Track World Championships
2012
1st Madison , UCI Track World Championships (with Kenny De Ketele )
UEC European Under-23 Track Championships
2nd Madison (with Jasper De Buyst )
3rd Team pursuit
2nd Six Days of Ghent (with Kenny De Ketele )
3rd Team pursuit, 2012–13 UCI Track Cycling World Cup , Glasgow
2013
1st Six Days of Amsterdam (with Kenny De Ketele )
3rd Madison, UEC European Track Championships (with Kenny De Ketele )
3rd Six Days of Ghent (with Kenny De Ketele )
2015
2nd Six Days of Ghent (with Kenny De Ketele )
3rd Six Days of London (with Iljo Keisse )
Road
Source: [10]
Grand Tour general classification results timeline
References
External links
1995 –96 : Italy (Silvio Martinello , Marco Villa )
1997 : Spain (Joan Llaneras , Miguel Alzamora )
1998 : Belgium (Etienne De Wilde , Matthew Gilmore )
1999 : Spain (Joan Llaneras , Isaac Gálvez )
2000 : Germany (Stefan Steinweg , Erik Weispfennig )
2001 : France (Robert Sassone , Jérôme Neuville )
2002 : France (Jérôme Neuville , Franck Perque )
2003 : Switzerland (Franco Marvulli , Bruno Risi )
2004 : Argentina (Walter Pérez , Juan Curuchet )
2005 : Great Britain (Mark Cavendish , Rob Hayles )
2006 : Spain (Isaac Gálvez , Joan Llaneras )
2007 : Switzerland (Bruno Risi , Franco Marvulli )
2008 : Great Britain (Mark Cavendish , Bradley Wiggins )
2009 : Denmark (Michael Mørkøv , Alex Rasmussen )
2010 –11 : Australia (Leigh Howard , Cameron Meyer )
2012 : Belgium (Kenny De Ketele , Gijs Van Hoecke )
2013 : France (Vivien Brisse , Morgan Kneisky )
2014 : Spain (David Muntaner , Albert Torres )
2015 : France (Bryan Coquard , Morgan Kneisky )
2016 : Great Britain (Mark Cavendish , Bradley Wiggins )
2017 : France (Morgan Kneisky , Benjamin Thomas )
2018 –19 : Germany (Roger Kluge , Theo Reinhardt )
2020 –21 : Denmark (Michael Mørkøv , Lasse Norman Hansen )
2022 : France (Donavan Grondin , Benjamin Thomas )
2023 : Netherlands (Jan-Willem van Schip , Yoeri Havik )
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