Gijs Van Hoecke
Belgian racing cyclist
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Van Hoecke in 2023
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Born |
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1991-11-12
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12 November 1991
(age
31)
Ghent , Belgium |
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Height | 186 cm (6 ft 1 in) | |||||||||
Weight | 75 kg (165 lb) | |||||||||
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Current team | Human Powered Health | |||||||||
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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 [1] | |||||||||
2021–2022 | AG2R Citroën Team [2] [3] | |||||||||
2023– | Human Powered Health | |||||||||
Medal record
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Gijs Van Hoecke (born 12 November 1991) is a Belgian cyclist, who currently rides for UCI ProTeam Human Powered Health . [4]
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. [5] [6]
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 . [7]
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 . [8] 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
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2nd
Madison, UCI Junior Track Cycling World Championships
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National Junior Track Championships
- 2nd Omnium
- 2nd Team pursuit
- 2nd Kilo
- 2nd Individual pursuit
- 2009
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1st
Omnium, National Junior Track Championships
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2nd
Madison, UCI Juniors Track World Championships (with Jochen Deweer)
- 2010
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2nd
Omnium, UEC European Under-23 Track Championships
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2nd
Scratch, 2010–11 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics , Cali
- 2011
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1st
Scratch, 2011–12 UCI Track Cycling World Cup , Astana
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3rd
Omnium , UCI Track World Championships
- 2012
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1st
Madison , UCI Track World Championships (with Kenny De Ketele )
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UEC European Under-23 Track Championships
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2nd
Madison (with Jasper De Buyst )
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3rd
Team pursuit
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2nd
- 2nd Six Days of Ghent (with Kenny De Ketele )
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3rd
Team pursuit, 2012–13 UCI Track Cycling World Cup , Glasgow
- 2013
- 1st Six Days of Amsterdam (with Kenny De Ketele )
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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: [9]
- 2009
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1st
Overall Giro della Toscana Juniors
- 5th Overall Münsterland Tour
- 2011
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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
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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 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 .
- ↑ "AG2R Citroën Team" . UCI.org . Union Cycliste Internationale . Archived from the original on 1 January 2021 . Retrieved 1 January 2021 .
- 1 2 "Stan Dewulf and Gijs Van Hoecke sign for two years" . AG2R La Mondiale . EUSRL France Cyclisme. 5 August 2020 . Retrieved 5 August 2020 .
- ↑ "HUMAN POWERED HEALTH" . UCI . Retrieved 23 January 2023 .
- ↑ "Gijs Van Hoecke" . BBC Sport . Retrieved 13 September 2012 .
- ↑ "Olympedia – Gijs Van Hoecke" . www.olympedia.org . Retrieved 3 December 2022 .
- ↑ "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 .
- ↑ "Gijs Van Hoecke" . FirstCycling.com . FirstCycling AS . Retrieved 8 August 2022 .
External links
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Olympedia
- Gijs Van Hoecke at Olympics.com
Riders on
Human Powered Health
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Crystal Bicycle (men) |
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Best Young Rider |
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Best Manager |
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Crystal Drop of Sweat |
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Crystal Bicycle (women) |
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