 Nuyens at the 2011 Four Days of Dunkirk | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Nick Nuyens |
| Nickname | Bom van Bevel ("Bomb from Bevel") |
| Born | 5 May 1980 Lier, Flanders, Belgium |
| Height | 1.77 m (5 ft 10 in) |
| Weight | 68 kg (150 lb) |
| Team information | |
| Discipline | Road |
| Role | Rider |
| Rider type | Classics specialist |
| Professional teams | |
| 2003–2006 | Quick-Step–Davitamon |
| 2007–2008 | Cofidis |
| 2009–2010 | Rabobank |
| 2011–2012 | Saxo Bank–SunGard |
| 2013–2014 | Garmin–Sharp |
| Major wins | |
Stage races
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Nick Nuyens (born 5 May 1980) is a Belgian former professional road racing cyclist who last rode for Garmin–Sharp in the UCI World Tour.[1] His biggest wins included the semi-classics Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne, Omloop Het Volk, Paris–Brussels and the classic Tour of Flanders. He was a classics rider. His first wife was the Belgian multiple national champion, Evy Van Damme, with whom he had three children. In 2015 he married Lynn Peeters.[2] He retired in 2015 after failing to secure a new contract.[3]
The year 2011 was a good one for him, since he took the victory on two classics in Flanders. At the end of March, he prevailed in a sprint at the Dwars door Vlaanderen, after desperately trying to steer clear of the group in the last 20 kilometres (12 mi) of the race. Geraint Thomas of Team Sky finished second, while the lead group was a few seconds away.[4] Two weeks later, Nuyens took one of the Monuments of cycling, the Tour of Flanders. After the Muur van Geraardsbergen, one of the big favourites, Fabian Cancellara, was caught by the bunch. Nuyens was part of the chasers that bridged to the leading group in the final kilometers, and a trio of riders were left to battle it out for the finish while another group was very close to them in the final meters. Nuyens got the better of Sylvain Chavanel (Quick-Step) and Cancellara in the three-man sprint. Nuyens said of his biggest win of his career: "It was only in the final 50 meters that I started to fully realize what was happening, that I was about to win this beautiful race."[5]
Nuyens left Saxo Bank–Tinkoff Bank at the end of the 2012 season, and joined Garmin–Sharp on a three-year contract from the 2013 season onwards.[1]
During the 2009 season he used a wood block under his saddle to prevent it from sagging in wet conditions.[6]
Since 2017 Nuyens has been the general manager of the Vérandas Willems–Crelan cycling team, which is a road Pro Continental cycling team and one of the main Belgian cyclo-cross teams.
Road race, National Under-23 Road Championships
Overall Ster Elektrotoer
Young rider classification Overall Tour of Britain
Overall Étoile de Bessèges
| Grand Tour | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Giro d'Italia
|
DNF | — | — | DNF | — | — | — | — | — |
 Tour de France
|
— | — | DNF | — | — | — | — | 121 | — |
 Vuelta a España
|
— | — | — | 78 | — | 127 | 161 | — | DNF |
| Monument | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Milan–San Remo | — | 176 | 162 | 122 | 44 | 20 | 32 | 61 | 70 | — | — | — |
| Tour of Flanders | — | — | 21 | 17 | 7 | 2 | 15 | DNF | 1 | — | — | — |
| Paris–Roubaix | — | — | 40 | 57 | DNF | 21 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Liège–Bastogne–Liège | — | 129 | — | — | — | — | — | — | DNF | — | — | — |
| Giro di Lombardia | DNF | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 61 | — | — | — |
| Classic | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 |
| Omloop Het Nieuwsblad | 40 | — | 1 | 90 | 4 | 2 | 14 | 55 | — | — | 65 | 62 |
| Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne | — | — | DNF | 1 | 63 | DNF | 8 | DNF | — | — | NH | DNF |
| Dwars door Vlaanderen | 51 | — | 6 | 29 | 14 | 10 | 16 | 12 | 1 | — | — | 44 |
| E3 Harelbeke | — | — | — | — | — | — | 7 | DNF | 38 | — | DNF | 59 |
| Gent–Wevelgem | — | 22 | 34 | 23 | 23 | — | DNF | — | 39 | — | — | 116 |
| Brabantse Pijl | — | 36 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 8 | — | 22 | — | — | — | 51 |
| Amstel Gold Race | — | — | — | — | 121 | — | 8 | 25 | 27 | — | — | — |
| Paris–Tours | 85 | DNF | 78 | 29 | — | 24 | 18 | 155 | — | — | — | — |
| — | Did not compete |
|---|---|
| DNF | Did not finish |
