Gerben Thijssen
.jpg) Thijssen in 2017 | |||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Gerben Thijssen | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 21 June 1998 Genk, Belgium | ||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | ||||||||||||||
| Weight | 67 kg (148 lb) | ||||||||||||||
| Team information | |||||||||||||||
| Current team | Intermarché–Wanty | ||||||||||||||
| Disciplines | |||||||||||||||
| Role | Rider | ||||||||||||||
| Rider type | Sprinter | ||||||||||||||
| Amateur teams | |||||||||||||||
| 2017–2019 | Lotto–Soudal U23[1] | ||||||||||||||
| 2018 | Lotto–Soudal (stagiaire) | ||||||||||||||
| Professional teams | |||||||||||||||
| 2019–2021 | Lotto–Soudal[2][3][4] | ||||||||||||||
| 2022– | Intermarché–Wanty–Gobert Matériaux | ||||||||||||||
| Major wins | |||||||||||||||
| One-day races and Classics | |||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Gerben Thijssen (born 21 June 1998)[5] is a Belgian road and track cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Intermarché–Wanty.[6]
Career[edit]
Thijssen won the bronze medal at the 2015 UCI Juniors Track World Championships in the points race. He won the silver medal at the 2016–17 UCI Track Cycling World Cup in Apeldoorn in the team pursuit.[7][8] In 2016, as a junior he won 2 stages in the Nations Cup Trofeo Karlsberg, the Omloop van de Vlaamse Gewesten and a Belgian Cup stage in Nederhasselt. He represented Belgium at the UCI Juniors Road World Championships in Qatar. In 2017, as a U23-rider he won the Grote Prijs Stad Sint-Niklaas and a stage in Olympia's Tour. He won the gold medal at the 2017 UEC European Track Championships in the Elite Elimination Race. In 2018, he was the Belgian champion in the U23-category. In November 2019, Thijssen crashed out of the Six Days of Ghent, suffering three small brain haemorrhages before being admitted to intensive care.[9]
In October 2020, he was named in the startlist for the 2020 Vuelta a España.[10]
In October 2023, Thijssen and Estonian rider Madis Mihkels were pulled by their team from the Tour of Guangxi, after Mihkels made a racist gesture.[11] Mihkels pulled his eyes into slants, in a picture Thijssen posted on his Instagram.[12]
Major results[edit]
Road[edit]
- 2016
- 1st Omloop der Vlaamse Gewesten
- Trofeo Karlsberg
- 1st Stages 1 & 2a
- 1st Stage 1 Internationale Cottbuser Junioren-Etappenfahrt
- 2017
- 1st Grote Prijs Stad Sint-Niklaas
- 1st Stage 4 Olympia's Tour
- 2nd Gooikse Pijl
- 3rd Paris–Tours Espoirs
- 7th Ronde van Overijssel
- 7th Eschborn-Frankfurt City Loop U23
- 2018
- 1st
Road race, National Under-23 Championships - 5th Paris–Troyes
- 2019
- 1st Memorial Van Coningsloo
- 1st Stage 1 Paris–Arras Tour
- 4th Overall Tour d'Eure-et-Loir
- 1st
Young rider classification - 1st Stage 2
- 1st
- 6th Road race, UEC European Under-23 Championships
- 2020
- 2nd Gooikse Pijl
- 2021
- 3rd Omloop van het Houtland
- 5th Grand Prix de Fourmies
- 2022 (3 pro wins)
- 1st Gooikse Pijl
- 1st Stage 2 Tour de Pologne
- 1st Stage 6 Four Days of Dunkirk
- 2nd Veenendaal–Veenendaal Classic
- 3rd Grote Prijs Marcel Kint
- 4th Grote Prijs Jean-Pierre Monseré
- 5th Bredene Koksijde Classic
- 7th Antwerp Port Epic
- 7th Kampioenschap van Vlaanderen
- 9th Omloop van het Houtland
- 2023 (4)
- 1st Bredene Koksijde Classic
- 1st Grote Prijs Jean-Pierre Monseré
- 1st Ronde van Limburg
- 1st Omloop van het Houtland
- 2nd Grand Prix de Fourmies
- 2nd La Roue Tourangelle
- 3rd Van Merksteijn Fences Classic
- 4th Gooikse Pijl
- 5th Scheldeprijs
- 5th Elfstedenronde
- 8th Albert Achterhes Profronde van Drenthe
- 2024 (2)
- 1st Trofeo Palma
- Volta ao Algarve
- 1st
Points classification - 1st Stage 1
- 1st
- 2nd La Roue Tourangelle
- 3rd Bredene Koksijde Classic
- 5th Clásica de Almería
Grand Tour general classification results timeline[edit]
| Grand Tour | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 |
|---|---|---|---|
 Giro d'Italia
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— | — | — |
 Tour de France
|
— | — | — |
 Vuelta a España
|
DNF | — | DNF |
| — | Did not compete |
|---|---|
| DNF | Did not finish |
Track[edit]
- 2015
- National Junior Championships
- 1st Madison (with Robbe Ghys)
- 3rd Keirin
- 1st
- 2nd
Madison, UEC European Junior Championships (with Robbe Ghys) - 3rd
Points race, UCI World Junior Championships - 2016
- National Junior Championships
- 1st Omnium
- 1st Points race
- 2nd Elimination race
- 2nd Individual pursuit
- 2nd Kilo
- 2nd Madison (with Sasha Weemaes)
- 1st
- 1st Six Days of Ghent U23 (with Jules Hesters)
- UEC European Junior Championships
- 2nd Madison (with Jules Hesters)
- 3rd
Points race
- 2nd
- 2nd Team pursuit, UCI World Cup, Apeldoorn
- 2017
- 1st
Elimination race, UEC European Championships - 2nd Team pursuit, UEC European Under-23 Championships
- 2019
- 2nd Team pursuit, UEC European Under-23 Championships
- 2nd Omnium, National Championships
References[edit]
- ^ "Thijssen and Van Moer to become pro on 1 July 2019". Lotto–Soudal. Captains of Cycling cvba. 10 December 2018. Retrieved 4 January 2019.
- ^ Odvart, James; Spruyt, Francis (3 July 2019). "Gerben Thijssen veut faire sa place". Directvelo (in French). Association Le Peloton. Retrieved 8 July 2019.
Gerben Thijssen wants to make his place
- ^ "Steff Cras and Matthew Holmes complete Lotto Soudal's 2020 roster". Cyclingnews.com. Future plc. 27 October 2019. Retrieved 2 January 2020.
- ^ "Lotto Soudal". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 1 January 2021. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
- ^ "Gerben Thijssen". Cycling Archives. Retrieved 9 February 2017.
- ^ Tyson, Jackie (12 January 2022). "2022 Team Preview: Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert Matériaux". CyclingNews. Future plc. Retrieved 16 January 2022.
- ^ "Results 2016–17 UCI Track Cycling World Cup". Tissot Timing. 1 November 2016. Retrieved 19 November 2016.
- ^ "2016–17 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Entry List Men". Tissot Timing. 1 November 2016. Retrieved 19 November 2016.
- ^ "Ghent Six Day: Gerben Thijssen in intensive care after crash on first day". bbc.co.uk. 13 November 2019. Retrieved 16 November 2019.
- ^ "75th La Vuelta ciclista a España: Startlist". ProCyclingStats. Retrieved 19 October 2020.
- ^ Ostanek, Daniel; Moultrie, James (11 October 2023). "Mihkels, Thijssen withdrawn from Tour of Guangxi after racist gesture". Cycling News. Retrieved 11 October 2023.
- ^ "Wielerploeg laat duo niet starten in Ronde van Guangxi na gebaar met spleetogen". NOS. 11 October 2023. Retrieved 11 October 2023.
External links[edit]
- Gerben Thijssen at UCI
- Gerben Thijssen at Cycling Archives
- Gerben Thijssen at ProCyclingStats
- Gerben Thijssen at Cycling Quotient
- Gerben Thijssen at CycleBase
