Gijs Van Hoecke


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Gijs Van Hoecke (born 12 November 1991) is a Belgian cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Intermarché–Wanty.[5]

Gijs Van Hoecke

Van Hoecke in 2023

Personal information
Born12 November 1991 (age 32)
Ghent, Belgium
Height186 cm (6 ft 1 in)
Weight75 kg (165 lb)
Team information
Current teamIntermarché–Wanty
Disciplines
  • Road
  • Track
RoleRider
Amateur teams
2010Beveren 2000
2011Omega Pharma–Lotto Davo
Professional teams
2012–2016Topsport Vlaanderen–Mercator
2017–2018LottoNL–Jumbo
2019–2020CCC Team[1]
2021–2022AG2R Citroën Team[2][3]
2023Human Powered Health[4]
2024–Intermarché–Wanty

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]

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)

Source: [10]

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

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Legend
— Did not compete
DNF Did not finish
  1. ^ "Valter completes CCC Team's 2020 roster". Cyclingnews.com. Future plc. 25 November 2019. Retrieved 1 January 2020.
  2. ^ "AG2R Citroën Team". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 1 January 2021. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
  3. ^ a b "Stan Dewulf and Gijs Van Hoecke sign for two years". AG2R La Mondiale. EUSRL France Cyclisme. 5 August 2020. Archived from the original on 12 October 2020. Retrieved 5 August 2020.
  4. ^ "HUMAN POWERED HEALTH". UCI. Retrieved 23 January 2023.
  5. ^ "Intermarché–Wanty". Union Cycliste Internationale. Retrieved 8 January 2024.
  6. ^ "Gijs Van Hoecke". BBC Sport. Retrieved 13 September 2012.
  7. ^ "Olympedia – Gijs Van Hoecke". www.olympedia.org. Retrieved 3 December 2022.
  8. ^ "2018: 101st Giro d'Italia: Start List". ProCyclingStats. Retrieved 3 May 2018.
  9. ^ "Navarro signs with Katusha-Alpecin – News Shorts". cyclingnews.com. 28 August 2018. Retrieved 1 September 2018.
  10. ^ "Gijs Van Hoecke". FirstCycling.com. FirstCycling AS. Retrieved 8 August 2022.