Gijs Van Hoecke Explained

Gijs Van Hoecke
Birth Date:1991 11, df=yes
Birth Place:Ghent, Belgium
Height:186 cm
Weight:75 kg
Role:Rider
Amateuryears1:2010
Amateurteam1:Beveren 2000
Amateuryears2:2011
Proyears1:2012–2016
Proyears2:2017–2018
Proyears3:2019–2020
Proteam3:[1]
Proyears4:2021–2022
Proteam4:[2] [3]
Proyears5:2023
Proteam5:[4]
Proyears6:2024–
Show-Medals:yes

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

    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
    2021
  • 9th Grand Prix of Aargau Canton

    Grand Tour general classification results timeline

    Grand Tour2018
    Giro d'Italia122
    Tour de France—
    Vuelta a España—
    Legend
    —Did not compete
    DNFDid not finish

    Notes and References

    1. News: Valter completes CCC Team's 2020 roster. Cyclingnews.com. Future plc. 25 November 2019. 1 January 2020.
    2. Web site: AG2R Citroën Team. UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. 1 January 2021. https://archive.today/20210101022611/https://www.uci.org/road/teams/TeamDetail/15234/1001084/279. 1 January 2021.
    3. News: Stan Dewulf and Gijs Van Hoecke sign for two years. . EUSRL France Cyclisme. 5 August 2020. 5 August 2020. 12 October 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20201012091406/https://www.cyclisme.ag2rlamondiale.fr/en/stan-dewulf-et-gijs-van-hoecke-sengagent-pour-deux-ans/. dead.
    4. Web site: HUMAN POWERED HEALTH. January 23, 2023. UCI.
    5. Web site: Intermarché–Wanty. Union Cycliste Internationale. 8 January 2024.
    6. Web site: Gijs Van Hoecke. BBC Sport. 13 September 2012.
    7. Web site: Olympedia – Gijs Van Hoecke . 2022-12-03 . www.olympedia.org.
    8. Web site: 2018: 101st Giro d'Italia: Start List . 3 May 2018 . ProCyclingStats.
    9. Web site: Navarro signs with Katusha-Alpecin – News Shorts. 28 August 2018 . cyclingnews.com. 1 September 2018.
    10. Web site: Gijs Van Hoecke. FirstCycling.com. FirstCycling AS. 8 August 2022.

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