Dylan Groenewegen

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Dylan Groenewegen Road cycling
Dylan Groenewegen (2016)
Dylan Groenewegen (2016)
To person
Date of birth June 21, 1993
nation NetherlandsNetherlands Netherlands
discipline Street
Driver type sprinter
To the team
Current team Jumbo Visma
function driver
Most important successes
Tour de France
2017 : one stage
2018 : two stages
2019 : one stage
Last updated: September 9, 2019

Dylan Groenewegen (born June 21, 1993 in Amsterdam ) is a Dutch cyclist .

biography

Family and background

Dylan Groenwegen is a grandson of the renowned Dutch frame builder Ko Zieleman, who built bikes for the Dutch racing cyclists Hennie Kuiper and Leo van Vliet , among others . His father was already building bicycles in his bicycle shop in Amsterdam's Rivierenbuurt from 1928 . Groenewegen grew up in the building complex on Merwedeplein where Anne Frank lived with her family. Today (as of 2017) the bicycle business is run by the third generation of Dylan Groenewegen's father Gerrie. Dylan Groenewegen competed in his first bike race at the age of seven on one of his grandfather's influential racing bikes.

Athletic career

After Dylan Groenewegen finished second behind Rick Zabel at the Tour of Flanders in the U23 class in 2013 , he managed to win this race in the U23 category the following year, which was his first major success. In 2015, after the photo finish , he won the traditional Brussels Cycling Classic race ahead of Roy Jans and Tom Boonen .

In the first half of 2016 Groenewegen impressed with several successes, including a win at Heistse Pijl , which he won in the sprint despite a tire defect . In June he won the German classic Rund um Köln by beating the favorite to win, the German André Greipel .

At the Tour de France 2017 , Groenewegen won the final stage in a long sprint and thus achieved his greatest success to date. On the 7th stage of the Tour de France 2018 he repeated this sprint victory on an uphill straight.

In the finish line of the first stage of the Tour of Poland on August 5, 2020 in Katowice , Groenewegen pushed his compatriot Fabio Jakobsen into the barriers at 80 km / h, whereupon both fell and caused a mass fall. Jakobsen was critically injured and Groenewegen broke his collarbone. The Spaniard Eduard Prades and the French Marc Sarreau and Damien Touzé also had to go to hospital. A photographer and an official were also injured. Groenewegen was disqualified and Jakobsen was declared the winner. Beyond the disqualification, his team Jumbo-Visma suspended him indefinitely and the World Cycling Association UCI initiated disciplinary proceedings against Groenewegen.

successes

2011
  • Driedaagse van Axel (Juniors)
  • Aubel – Thimister – La Gleize (Juniors)
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019
2020

Grand Tour placements

Grand Tour 2016 2017 2018 2019
Maglia Rosa Giro d'Italia - - - -
Yellow jersey Tour de France 160 156 DNF 145
Red jersey Vuelta a España - - - -
Legend: DNF: did not finish , abandoned or withdrawn from the race due to timeout.

Teams

Web links

Commons : Dylan Groenewegen  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Femke Hoogland: De Winkel voor grote en small Kampioenen. In: uitgeverijdemuur.nl. December 16, 2016, accessed June 30, 2019 (Dutch).
  2. ↑ Erik Raschke: Dylan Groenewegen: Charging through the chaos while holding tightly to the past - CyclingTips. In: cyclingtips.com. July 24, 2017, accessed June 30, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Door: Nu.nl: Groenewegen wint Brussels Cycling Classic na fotofinish. In: nu.nl. September 5, 2015, accessed June 13, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Groenewegen wint met lekke band. In: nos.nl. June 4, 2016, accessed June 13, 2016 (Dutch).
  5. ↑ Groenewegen ends the German series on the Champs-Élysees. radsport-news.com, July 23, 2017, accessed July 23, 2017 .
  6. ↑ Groenewegen silences his critics in Chartres. In: radsport-news.com. July 13, 2018, accessed July 13, 2018 .
  7. ↑ n-tv NEWS: Jakobsen breaks all of his facial bones. Retrieved August 7, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Antje Windmann: Ex-Sprinter Kittel on falling in Poland: "I've never seen anything like it in my career". In: Spiegel Online . August 6, 2020, accessed August 7, 2020 .
  9. ↑ ORF at / Agencies red: Cycling: Dutch people in a coma after a horror fall. August 5, 2020, accessed August 6, 2020 .
  10. ^ Felix Mathis: UCI initiates disciplinary proceedings against Groenewegen -. In: radsport-news.com. August 5, 2020, accessed August 6, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Groenewegen, Dylan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH June 21, 1993
PLACE OF BIRTH Amsterdam