Dimitri Claeys

Dimitri Claeys
	Dimitri Claeys (2016)
To person
Date of birth	June 18, 1987
nation	Belgium
discipline	Street
To the team
Current team	Cofidis
function	driver
Most important successes
	Overall ranking 4 Jours de Dunkerque 2018
	Last updated: November 8, 2018

Dimitri Claeys (born June 18, 1987 in Sint-Amandsberg ) is a Belgian racing cyclist .

Athletic career

Dimitri Claeys won the one-day race Gouden Fiets Eddy Merckx in 2003. In the 2005 season he won the two junior races Vlaams-Brabant Classic Zemst-Laar and the Vlaams-Brabantse Pijl Korbeek-Lo. In 2006 Claeys drove for the Continental Team Unibet-Davo and since 2007 he has been driving for Davitamon-Lotto-Jong Vlaanderen , the farm team of the ProTeam Silence-Lotto . In his first year there he was successful with his teammates in the team time trial of the Volta a Lleida . In 2008 and 2009 he was the Belgian U23 road champion. In 2013 and 2014 he won the Omloop Het Nieuwsblad in the U23 / Amateurs category, as he had no contract in those years. 2015 was his most successful year to date, in which he won the Tour de Normandie , a stage of the Tour of Croatia , the International Wielertrofee Jong Maar Moedig and the Grand Prix de la Ville de Pérenchies . With his team Vérandas Willems he won the Paris-Arras Tour team time trial .

In 2016 Claeys won a stage of the Tour de Wallonie and the GP Jef Scherens , and in 2018 the 4 Jours de Dunkerque . In 2017 he started the Tour de France for the first time (163rd), and again the following year (130).