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Lindsay De Vylder
Belgian cyclist (born 1995) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Lindsay De Vylder (born 30 May 1995) is a Belgian cyclist, who currently rides for UCI ProTeam Team Flanders–Baloise.[3] He represented Belgium at the 2020 (as a reserve) and 2024 Summer Olympics where he finished 7th in the men's team pursuit but a disappointing 10th in the men's madison at the side of Fabio Van den Bossche.[4]
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Career
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Without a single family member or fan to witness, De Vylder won his first international title when he became European junior champion in the Omnium at the 2013 European Track Championships (under-23 & junior) in Anadia, Portugal finishing with an equal points total as Italian rider Riccardo Minali but having posted better time trials.[5]
The Sangalhos National Velodrome in Anadia, Portugal holds good memories for De Vylder as four years later, in 2017, he won his second European title, teaming up with Robbe Ghys to win the under-23 madison at the 2017 UEC European Track Championships (under-23 & junior) on said velodrome.[6]
He won multiple medals at the senior level in the men's madison taking the silver and the bronze at the side of Fabio Van den Bossche at the 2024 UCI Track Cycling World Championships [7] resp. 2022 UCI Track Cycling World Championships [8] and another silver at the side of Kenny De Ketele at the 2021 UEC European Track Championships.[9]
A couple months after the disappointment in the men's madison at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, France, he posted his biggest success to date becaming a track cycling world champion winning the gold medal in the men's omnium at the 2024 UCI Track Cycling World Championships in Ballerup, Denmark.[10]
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Personal life
De Vylder tried his hand at other sports like football and Judo before he turned to cycling. His parents, seeing this as an expensive sport, tried to discourage him but eventually gave in and bought him a second-hand bike when he was 11.[5] De Vylder is married, with two children. He holds a degree of real estate surveyor from the HOGENT University of Applied Sciences and Arts in Ghent, Belgium.[11]
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Major results
Track
- 2013
- 1st
Omnium, UEC European Junior Championships - National Junior Championships
- 1st
Individual pursuit - 1st Points race
- 1st Scratch
- 1st Omnium
- 1st Kilo
- 1st Team pursuit
- 1st Team sprint
- 1st
- 2014
- 3rd Scratch, National Championships
- 2017
- UEC European Under-23 Championships
- 1st
Madison (with Robbe Ghys) - 2nd
Team pursuit
- 1st
- 2nd Omnium, UCI World Cup, Cali
- National Championships
- 2nd Madison
- 2nd Omnium
- 2018
- 1st Madison, UCI World Cup, Milton (with Kenny De Ketele)
- 2019
- National Championships
- 1st
Madison (with Moreno De Pauw) - 1st Scratch
- 1st Omnium
- 1st
- 2nd Team pursuit, UCI World Cup, London
- 2021
- 2nd Madison, UEC European Championships (with Kenny De Ketele)
- 2022
- 1st Six Days of Ghent (with Robbe Ghys)
- 1st Six Days of Rotterdam (with Jules Hesters)
- 3rd
Madison, UCI World Championships (with Fabio Van den Bossche) - 2024
- UCI World Championships
- 1st
Omnium - 2nd
Madison (with Fabio Van Den Bossche)
- 1st
Road
- 2013
- 1st Mountains classification, Niedersachsen-Rundfahrt der Junioren
- 2016
- 1st Stage 2 Ronde van Oost-Vlaanderen
- 2018
- 9th Grote Prijs Jean-Pierre Monseré
- 2023
- 5th Cholet-Pays de la Loire
References
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