Jelle Wallays Explained

Jelle Wallays
Birth Date:1989 5, df=yes
Birth Place:Roeselare, West Flanders, Belgium
Height:1.85 m
Weight:77 kg
Currentteam:Retired
Discipline:Road
Role:Rider
Ridertype:Classics specialist
Amateuryears1:2008–2010
Amateurteam1:Beveren 2000
Amateuryears2:2010
Amateurteam2: (stagiaire)
Proyears1:2011–2015
Proteam1:[1]
Proyears2:2016–2020
Proteam2:[2] [3]
Proyears3:2021–2023
Proteam3:[4]
Majorwins:Grand Tours

Vuelta a España

1 individual stage (2018)One-day races and Classics

Paris–Tours (2014, 2019)

Dwars door Vlaanderen (2015)

Jelle Wallays (born 11 May 1989) is a Belgian former road cyclist, who competed as a professional from 2011 to 2023.

Career

Jelle Wallays is the brother and nephew of racing cyclists Jens Wallays and Luc Wallays.[5] He was coached by his uncle in his early racing career and competed in his first race at the age of 14. The start of his first year as a professional in 2011 was marred by a knee injury, however a few weeks after returning to competition he took the best result of his season at the Belgian National Road Race Championships, where he finished third behind Philippe Gilbert and Gianni Meersman.[6]

A winner of the Paris–Tours Espoirs in 2010, Wallays won the 2014 Paris–Tours having been in a breakaway that went in the opening kilometres of the 237.5km (147.6miles) race, making him the only rider to win the under-23 and elite men's editions of Paris–Tours.[7] He added a second victory in the race in 2019.

In 2015, he won the Dwars door Vlaanderen by attacking a group of three other riders a kilometre away from the finish line.[8]

Wallays joined for the 2016 season, with a focus on working as part of the team's sprint train. He was named in the startlist for the 2016 Vuelta a España.[9]

In October 2020, Wallays signed with the team for the 2021 season.[10]

Major results

2007
  • 1st Stage 3b Course de la Paix Juniors 4th Omloop Mandel-Leie-Schelde 2009
  • 3rd Overall Kreiz Breizh Elites
  • 5th Road race, National Under-23 Road Championships
  • 5th Paris–Roubaix Espoirs
  • 8th Overall Mi–Août Bretonne
    2010
  • 1st Grand Prix Criquielion
  • 1st Paris–Tours Espoirs
  • 5th Omloop Het Nieuwsblad Beloften
  • 7th Circuit de Wallonie
  • 8th Ronde van Vlaanderen Beloften
    2011
  • 3rd Road race, National Road Championships
  • 4th Kattekoers
  • 5th Internationale Wielertrofee Jong Maar Moedig
  • 7th Overall Tour of Britain
  • 10th Grote Prijs Stad Zottegem
    2012
  • 7th Grote Prijs Jef Scherens
  • 9th Overall Tour de Wallonie
    2013
  • 1st Stage 1 World Ports Classic
  • 4th Internationale Wielertrofee Jong Maar Moedig
  • 7th Overall Driedaagse van West-Vlaanderen
  • 7th Grote Prijs Stad Geel
  • 7th Grote Prijs Jef Scherens
  • 8th Overall Post Danmark Rundt
    2014
  • 1st Paris–Tours
  • 1st Omloop van het Houtland
  • 3rd Internationale Wielertrofee Jong Maar Moedig
  • 7th Overall Danmark Rundt
  • 7th Ronde van Drenthe
  • 9th Druivenkoers Overijse
  • 10th Chrono des Nations
    2015
  • 1st Dwars door Vlaanderen
  • 1st Grand Prix Criquielion
  • 1st Duo Normand (with Victor Campenaerts)
  • 4th Overall Tour de Luxembourg
  • 7th Schaal Sels
  • 8th Overall Ster ZLM Toer
    2016
  • 1st Grand Prix Pino Cerami
  • 4th Dwars door het Hageland
  • 9th Overall Driedaagse van West-Vlaanderen
    2018
  • 1st Stage 18 Vuelta a España
  • 1st Stage 6 Vuelta a San Juan
  • 4th Tacx Pro Classic
    2019
  • 1st Paris–Tours
  • 9th Overall ZLM Tour
    2020
  • 8th Antwerp Port Epic

    Grand Tour general classification results timeline

    Grand Tour20162017201820192020202120222023
    Giro d'ItaliaHas not contested during his career
    Tour de France—————131——
    Vuelta a España92151143144———
    Legend
    —Did not compete
    DNFDid not finish

    Notes and References

    1. Web site: Topsport Vlaanderen-Baloise (TSV) – BEL. 6 February 2014. Union Cycliste Internationale. UCI Continental Circuits.
    2. Web site: Lotto-Soudal. fr. Directvelo. Association Le Peloton. 3 January 2019.
    3. News: Steff Cras and Matthew Holmes complete Lotto Soudal's 2020 roster. Cyclingnews.com. 27 October 2019. 2 January 2020.
    4. Web site: Cofidis. UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. 1 January 2021. https://archive.today/20210101063704/https://www.uci.org/road/teams/TeamDetail/15236/1000563/279. 1 January 2021.
    5. Web site: Wielermilieu rouwt na overlijden Luc Wallays . Tytgat. Martin. 7 March 2013 . Het Nieuwsblad. nl. Cycling milieu mourns after death of Luc Wallays. 30 April 2016.
    6. Web site: Presentation new rider: Jelle Wallays. Lotto–Soudal. 30 April 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160601190323/http://lottosoudal.be/presentation-new-rider-jelle-wallays/?lang=en. 1 June 2016. dead.
    7. http://www.supersport.com/cycling/international/news/141012/Wallays_wins_ParisTours_classic Wallays wins Paris-Tours classic
    8. News: Wallays wins Dwars door Vlaanderen. Cyclingnews.com. 25 March 2015. 26 March 2015.
    9. Web site: 71st Vuelta a España . 20 August 2016 . ProCyclingStats.
    10. News: Jelle Wallays, l'expérience au service de Cofidis. fr. The experienced Jelle Wallays, at the service of Cofidis. . Groupe Cofidis Participations. 24 October 2020. 25 October 2020.

    This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Jelle Wallays".

    Except where otherwise indicated, Everything.Explained.Today is © Copyright 2009-2025, A B Cryer, All Rights Reserved. Cookie policy.