Victor Campenaerts
Belgian cyclist From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Victor Campenaerts (born 28 October 1991) is a Belgian racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Visma–Lease a Bike.[6]
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Born | Wilrijk, Belgium | 28 October 1991||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 72 kg (159 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Current team | Visma–Lease a Bike | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Discipline | Road | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Role | Rider | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Rider type | Time trialist,[1] Rouleur | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Amateur teams | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2011–2012 | Bianchi–Lotto–Nieuwe Hoop Tielen | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2013 | Lotto–Belisol U23 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Professional teams | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2014–2015 | Topsport Vlaanderen–Baloise | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2016–2017 | LottoNL–Jumbo | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2018–2019 | Lotto–Soudal[2] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2020–2021 | NTT Pro Cycling[3][4] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2022–2024 | Lotto–Soudal[5] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2025– | Visma–Lease a Bike | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Grand Tours
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Medal record
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Career
Summarize
Perspective
He rode in the 2014 UCI Road World Championships. In September 2015 it was announced that he would join the UCI World Tour ranks in 2016 with LottoNL–Jumbo.[1] He was named in the startlist for the 2016 Vuelta a España[7] and the start list for the 2017 Giro d'Italia.[8]
On 16 April 2019, at the Aguascalientes Bicentenary Velodrome in Aguascalientes, Mexico, Campenaerts broke the hour record, riding 55.089 kilometres (34.231 miles), surpassing Bradley Wiggins' previous mark set on 7 June 2015 by 563 metres (1,847 feet).[9] In doing so, he became the fourth Belgian cyclist to hold the hour record, after Oscar Van den Eynde (1897–98), Ferdinand Bracke (1967–68) and Eddy Merckx (1972–2000).[10]
Campenaerts rejoined Lotto–Soudal, on a 3 year contract, in 2022 after 2 years away at Team Qhubeka NextHash.[11]
Riding for the now renamed Lotto–Dstny, Campenaerts rode the 2023 Tour de France. Upon the race's conclusion in Paris, he was selected as the winner of the race's super-combativity award, as the most combative rider overall during the race.[12] Campenaerts made the breakaway 5 times during the race, including on stages 18 and 19, which had both been forecast as sprint finishes. Campenaerts played a big role in each stage's successful breakaway, helping his teammates and holding off the charging peloton.[13][14]
He continued with Lotto–Dstny into the 2024 Tour de France, at which he won Stage 18.[15][16]
On 26 August 2024 Visma–Lease a Bike announced that Campenaerts would return to their team for the 2025 season, he signed a contract for three years. He rode for this team previously when it was called LottoNL–Jumbo.[17]
Major results
Road
- 2013
- 1st
Time trial, UEC European Under-23 Championships
- 1st
Time trial, National Under-23 Championships
- 4th Overall Vuelta a la Comunidad de Madrid Sub 23
- 8th Time trial, UCI World Under-23 Championships
- 8th Antwerpse Havenpijl
- 2015
- 1st Duo Normand (with Jelle Wallays)
- 2nd Overall Tour de Wallonie
- 1st
Young rider classification
- 1st
- 4th Overall Ster ZLM Toer
- 5th Time trial, National Championships
- 10th Overall Boucles de la Mayenne
- 2016 (1 pro win)
- 1st
Time trial, National Championships
- 2nd
Time trial, UEC European Championships
- 2017 (2)
- 1st
Time trial, UEC European Championships
- 1st Stage 3 (ITT) Vuelta a Andalucía
- 2nd Time trial, National Championships
- 4th Overall Tour of Britain
- 5th Chrono des Nations
- 9th Brabantse Pijl
- 10th Rund um Köln
- 2018 (2)
- 1st
Time trial, UEC European Championships
- 1st
Time trial, National Championships
- 3rd
Time trial, UCI World Championships
- 2019 (2)
- 1st Stage 7 (ITT) Tirreno–Adriatico
- 2nd Overall Tour of Belgium
- 1st Stage 4
- 4th Time trial, National Championships
- 2020
- 2nd Time trial, National Championships
- 3rd
Time trial, UEC European Championships
- 8th Time trial, UCI World Championships
- 2021 (1)
- 1st Stage 15 Giro d'Italia
- 3rd Time trial, National Championships
- 3rd Overall Benelux Tour
- 10th Road race, UEC European Championships
- 2022 (1)
- 1st Tour of Leuven
- 1st
Mountains classification, Tour de Wallonie
- 3rd Time trial, National Championships
- 3rd Circuit Franco-Belge
- 4th Dwars door Vlaanderen
- 5th Overall Tour of Belgium
- 5th Omloop Het Nieuwsblad
- 6th Le Samyn
- 2023 (2)
- 1st Druivenkoers Overijse
- 1st Stage 4 (ITT) Tour de Luxembourg
- 6th Tour of Leuven
- Tour de France
Combativity award Stages 18, 19 & Overall
- 2024 (1)
- 1st Stage 18 Tour de France
- 6th Time trial, UEC European Championships
- 9th Time trial, UCI World Championships
- 2025
- 1st Stage 3 (TTT) Paris–Nice
Grand Tour general classification results timeline
Grand Tour | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
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— | DNF | DNF | 111 | 95 | DNF | — | — | — |
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— | — | — | — | — | DNF | — | 64 | 81 |
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143 | — | 102 | — | — | — | — | — | 111 |
— | Did not compete |
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DNF | Did not finish |
Track
- 2015
- 3rd Individual pursuit, National Championships
- 2016
- 1st
Individual pursuit, National Championships
- 2019
- Hour record:
55.089 km
References
External links
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