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| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Jasper Philipsen |
| Nickname | Jasper Disaster[1] |
| Born | 2 March 1998 Mol, Flanders, Belgium |
| Height | 1.76 m (5 ft 9+1⁄2 in)[2] |
| Weight | 75 kg (165 lb; 11 st 11 lb)[2] |
| Team information | |
| Current team | Alpecin–Deceuninck |
| Discipline | Road |
| Role | Sprinter |
| Amateur team | |
| 2017 | BMC Development Team |
| Professional teams | |
| 2018 | Hagens Berman Axeon[3] |
| 2019–2020 | UAE Team Emirates[4][5] |
| 2021– | Alpecin–Fenix |
| Major wins | |
Grand Tours
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Jasper Philipsen (born 2 March 1998) is a Belgian professional cyclist who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Alpecin–Deceuninck.[6][7] He is a sprinter and won several stages in the Tour de France and Vuelta a España.
From 2010, Philipsen rode for the Royal Balen BC team. In 2015, he became national junior time trial champion. Later that year, he finished eighth at the European championships in the same discipline and sixth at the world championships.[8] A year later, Philipsen won the Guido Reybrouck Classic and E3 Harelbeke for juniors, and successfully defended his national time trial title. In addition, that year he finished fifth in Paris-Roubaix for juniors and 11th in the Omloop der Vlaamse Gewesten. Philipsen was selected for both the time trial and the road race at the world championships in Doha. After the time trial, in which he set the 18th fastest time, he was taken to hospital exhausted and overheated. Although Philipsen appeared to be physically fine, he did not start in the road race three days later.[9]
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On 1 April 2017, Philipsen took his first UCI victory in the elite riders, for the BMC Development Team team. In the second stage of the Triptyque des Monts et Châteaux, he stayed ahead of compatriot Milan Menten and Dutchman Maarten van Trijp in the bunch sprint.[10] A day later, thanks to a fifth place in the individual time trial, he took over the leader's jersey from Chris Lawless. In the final stage, he finished fourth, taking not only the overall classification, but also the points and youth classification. After finishing second in both the Tour of Flanders U23 and the ZLM Tour, he won a stage in the Baby Giro in June. In the points classification, he stayed one point ahead of Neilson Powless. In July, he won the second stage in the Tour of Alsace, after which he rode the road race for promises at both the European and national championships. In the fifth stage of the Olympia's Tour, he stayed ahead of Patrick van der Duin and Fabio Jakobsen in the bunch sprint. In October, he won Paris–Tours Espoirs.[11]
In 2018, Philipsen became professional at Hagens Berman Axeon. He took several victories that year, including the overall classification of the Triptyque des Monts et Châteaux and a stage in the Baby Giro.[12][13] In October, he was offered a contract with UAE Team Emirates. Through this team, he made the switch to the World Tour.
Philipsen was named in the startlist for the 2019 Tour de France.[14] He participated in the 2020 Vuelta a España,[15] where he won stage 15. He participated in his second Tour de France in 2021 and while he did not win any stages he had many promising results including finishing on the stage podium a half dozen times. He rode in the 2021 Vuelta a España where he won two stages.[16] He also wore the points classification jersey on several stages, being involved in a battle with Fabio Jakobsen for the jersey, before he decided it had been a successful race and abandoned about halfway through due to a mild fever.[17]
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Early in the 2022 season he won the points classification and two stages of the UAE Tour. He then won the points classification and a stage in the Tour of Turkey and a stage in the Tour of Belgium.
He entered the 2022 Tour de France with the team targeting stage wins with both Philipsen and Mathieu van der Poel. Philipsen initially thought that he won stage 4, but it turned out Wout Van Aert had surprised the peloton and attacked while wearing the yellow jersey. After the Alps he got a chance to win stage 15 after the final breakaway rider had been caught inside the final kilometre. He was able to outcharge previous stage winners Van Aert and Mads Pedersen to take the team's first win of the race.[18] His second stage win came on the final day in Paris, winning the sprint by a convincing margin.
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In March 2023, he won his second World Tour one-day race: the Classic Brugge–De Panne, outsprinting Olav Kooij and Yves Lampaert.[19] Two weeks later, he won Scheldeprijs for the second time. Five days later, he outkicked Wout Van Aert to take second at Paris–Roubaix.[20] This was his first podium in a Monument. At the 2023 Tour de France, he won stages 3, 4, 7 and 11, all of which were sprint finishes.[21] This led to ultimately win the points classification by over 100 points to second placed Mads Pedersen.
Jasper Philipsen is sometimes compared to Tom Boonen by the media, originating from the same region and sharing his profile as a road race-sprinter specialised in the classics.[22]
"Philipsen is not only fast, he also always seems to position himself very well during bunch sprints. We are talking about making good decisions in a split second, while racing at more than 70 km per hour. This also proves he's still in a top condition at those moments. One makes easier mistakes when exhausted."
Eddy Planckaert on Philipsen in 2023 [23]
Philipsen is one of the most explosive cyclists of his generation.[24] By 2022, several international specialized media considered him as best sprinter in the world.[25][26]
He received some criticism for his riding style during the 2023 Tour de France, as he appeared to purposely impede other riders on several stages.[27]
Time trial, National Junior Road Championships Time trial, National Junior Road Championships
Overall Le Triptyque des Monts et Châteaux
Points classification
Young rider classification
Points classification Overall Le Triptyque des Monts et Châteaux
Points classification
Sprints classification, Tour Down Under
Kampioenschap van Vlaanderen after Stages 2–3, 5–7 Points classification Points classification Points classification Kampioenschap van Vlaanderen
Points classification
Points classification| Grand Tour | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Giro d'Italia
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— | — | — | — | — |
 Tour de France
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DNF | — | 109 | 91 | 97 |
 Vuelta a España
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— | 85 | DNF | — | — |
| Monument | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Milan–San Remo | — | 150 | — | — | 66 | 15 | ||||
| Tour of Flanders | — | DNF | — | — | DNF | — | ||||
| Paris–Roubaix | — | DNF | NH | 41 | — | 2 | ||||
| Liège–Bastogne–Liège | Has not contested during his career | |||||||||
| Giro di Lombardia | ||||||||||
| Classic | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | ||||
| Omloop Het Nieuwsblad | — | 37 | — | 124 | — | 33 | ||||
| Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne | — | 24 | 122 | — | — | DNF | ||||
| Brugge–De Panne | 3 | — | — | 2 | — | 1 | ||||
| Gent–Wevelgem | — | — | 47 | 38 | 21 | DNF | ||||
| Dwars door Vlaanderen | — | 142 | NH | 57 | 29 | 4 | ||||
| Scheldeprijs | — | 9 | 5 | 1 | 8 | 1 | ||||
| Eschborn–Frankfurt | — | — | NH | 1 | 11 | DNF | ||||
| Hamburg Cyclassics | — | 34 | — | 6 | — | |||||
| Paris–Tours | — | — | — | 12 | DNF | — | ||||
| — | Did not compete |
|---|---|
| DNF | Did not finish |
