Top Qs
Timeline
Chat
Perspective
Johan Vansummeren
Belgian road bicycle racer From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Remove ads
Johan Vansummeren (born 4 February 1981) is a Belgian former professional road racing cyclist, who rode professionally between 2004 and 2016 for the Relax–Bodysol, Silence–Lotto, Garmin–Sharp and AG2R La Mondiale teams.
Remove ads
Biography
Vansummeren was born, raised, and resides in Lommel, Flanders, Belgium.[1] After two seasons in the amateur ranks, Vansummeren turned professional with Relax–Bodysol in 2004.[1]
Although Vansummeren's role was primarily that of a domestique, he competed as a team leader during the classic season.[3][4] In 2011, Vansummeren won the biggest race of his career, Paris–Roubaix.[5][6] Vansummeren won the race after escaping from three other riders with 15 kilometres (9.3 miles) remaining, winning by nineteen seconds at the velodrome in Roubaix.[7][8] He was victorious, despite riding the final 5 kilometres (3.1 miles) with a flat tire.[7][9] Vansummeren also won the 2007 Tour de Pologne and rode the Tour de France nine times.[10]
Vansummeren signed with AG2R La Mondiale for the 2015 and 2016 seasons.[11] In June 2016, he announced his retirement from the sport after being diagnosed with a heart problem that had been detected in February at the Tour of Oman and resulted in him missing the classics season.[10]
Remove ads
Major results
- 1999
- 1st
Overall Junior Tour of Wales - 2001
- 4th Overall Le Triptyque des Monts et Châteaux
- 4th Circuit de Wallonie
- 5th Overall Ronde de l'Isard
- 1st Stage 5
- 8th Grand Prix de Waregem
- 2002
- 1st Circuit de Wallonie
- 1st Zellik–Galmaarden
- 3rd Overall Le Triptyque des Monts et Châteaux
- 5th Ronde van Vlaanderen Beloften
- 2003
- 1st Liège–Bastogne–Liège Espoirs
- 2nd
Road race, UCI Under-23 Road World Championships - 3rd Beverbeek Classic
- 4th Ronde van Vlaanderen Beloften
- 7th Overall Tour of Slovenia
- 9th Time trial, UEC European Under-23 Road Championships
- 10th Overall Tour de Normandie
- 10th Overall Le Triptyque des Monts et Châteaux
- 2004
- 8th Grand Prix Rudy Dhaenens
- 10th Grand Prix Eddy Merckx (with Bert Roesems)
- 2005
- 4th Overall Tour Down Under
- 2006
- 1st
Points classification, Tour of Britain - 5th Road race, National Road Championships
- 9th Grand Prix d'Isbergues
- 2007 (2 pro wins)
- 1st Overall Tour de Pologne
- 1st Stage 7
- 1st Stage 1 (TTT) Settimana Internazionale di Coppi e Bartali
- 2008
- 8th Paris–Roubaix
- 2009
- 5th Paris–Roubaix
- 10th Clásica de San Sebastián
- 2011 (1)
- 1st Paris–Roubaix
- 1st Duo Normand (with Thomas Dekker)
- 2012
- 1st Stage 2 (TTT) Tour of Qatar
- 9th Paris–Roubaix
- 10th Strade Bianche
- 2014
- 10th Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne
Grand Tour general classification results timeline
Monuments results timeline
Remove ads
References
External links
Wikiwand - on
Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids.
Remove ads