Victor Campenaerts
Campenaerts in 2023
Personal information
Born (1991-10-28) 28 October 1991 (age 32)
Wilrijk, Flanders, Belgium
Height1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
Weight72 kg (159 lb)
Team information
Current teamLotto–Dstny
DisciplineRoad
RoleRider
Rider typeTime trialist,[1] Rouleur
Amateur teams
2011–2012Bianchi–Lotto–Nieuwe Hoop Tielen
2013Lotto–Belisol U23
Professional teams
2014–2015Topsport Vlaanderen–Baloise
2016–2017LottoNL–Jumbo
2018–2019Lotto–Soudal[2]
2020–2021NTT Pro Cycling[3][4]
2022–Lotto–Soudal
Major wins
Grand Tours
Tour de France
Combativity award (2023)
Giro d'Italia
1 individual stage (2021)

One-day races and Classics

European Time Trial Championships (2017, 2018)
National Time Trial Championships (2016, 2018)

Other

Hour record 55.089 km (16 April 2019)
Medal record
Representing  Belgium
Men's road bicycle racing
World Championships
Bronze medal – third place 2018 Innsbruck Time trial
European Championships
Gold medal – first place 2017 Herning Time trial
Gold medal – first place 2018 Glasgow Time trial
Gold medal – first place 2013 Olomouc Under-23 time trial
Silver medal – second place 2016 Plumelec Time trial
Bronze medal – third place 2020 Plouay Time trial

Victor Campenaerts (born 28 October 1991) is a Belgian racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI ProTeam Lotto–Dstny.[5]

Career

He rode at 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[6] and the start list for the 2017 Giro d'Italia.[7]

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).[8] 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).[9]

Campenaerts rejoined Lotto–Soudal, on a 3 year contract, in 2022 after 2 years away at Team Qhubeka NextHash.[10]

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.[11] 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.[12][13]

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
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 Grote Prijs Jef Scherens
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 Grote Prijs Jef Scherens
Tour de France
Combativity award Stages 18, 19 & Overall

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

Grand Tour 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023
A pink jersey Giro d'Italia — DNF DNF 111 95 DNF — —
A yellow jersey Tour de France — — — — — DNF — 64
A red jersey Vuelta a España 143 — 102 — — — — —
Legend
— Did not compete
DNF Did not finish

Track

2015
3rd Individual pursuit, National Championships
2016
1st Individual pursuit, National Championships
2019
Hour record: 55.089 km

References

  1. ^ a b "Transfer news: Guardini set for another year with Astana". cyclingnews.com. 25 September 2015. Retrieved 29 September 2015.
  2. ^ "Lotto-Soudal". Directvelo (in French). Association Le Peloton. Retrieved 3 January 2019.
  3. ^ "NTT Pro Cycling Team". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 3 January 2020. Retrieved 3 January 2020.
  4. ^ "Team Qhubeka Assos". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 2 January 2021. Retrieved 2 January 2021.
  5. ^ "Lotto–Soudal". UCI. Archived from the original on 27 January 2022. Retrieved 5 February 2022.
  6. ^ "71st Vuelta a España". ProCyclingStats. Retrieved 20 August 2016.
  7. ^ "2017: 100th Giro d'Italia: Start List". Pro Cycling Stats. Retrieved 2 May 2017.
  8. ^ Windsor, Richard (16 April 2019). "Victor Campenaerts sets new UCI Hour Record". Cycling Weekly. Retrieved 17 April 2019.
  9. ^ Zidda, Giovanni (3 November 2021). "Campenaerts, Merckx, Bracke, Van den Eynde : ces Belges qui ont détenu le record de l'heure" [Campenaerts, Merckx, Bracke, Van den Eynde: these Belgians who held the hour record]. RTBF (in French). Radio Télévision Belge de la Communauté Française. Retrieved 21 May 2022.
  10. ^ "Victor Campenaerts is returning to Lotto Soudal". CyclingTips. 19 October 2021. Retrieved 5 February 2022.
  11. ^ Ostanek, Daniel (24 July 2023). "Victor Campenaerts celebrates 'very special' Tour de France super-combativity prize". Retrieved 4 August 2022.
  12. ^ Machado, Alana (21 July 2023). "Tour de France 2023 - Stage 19 Recap". Retrieved 4 August 2022.
  13. ^ Ryan, Barry (21 July 2023). "'Ride as fast as possible' – Campenaerts' big plan almost comes off at Tour de France". Retrieved 4 August 2022.

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Preceded byBradley Wiggins UCI hour record (55.089 km) 16 April 2019 – 19 August 2022 Succeeded byDaniel Bigham
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