Tanning Thijssen

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Tanning Thijssen Road cycling
Gerben Thijssen as European champion in the elimination race (2017)
Gerben Thijssen as European champion
in the elimination race (2017)
To person
Date of birth June 21, 1998
nation BelgiumBelgium Belgium
discipline Track (endurance / short term); Street
To the team
Current team Lotto Soudal
function driver
Most important successes
UEC European Rail Championships
2017 European Champion 2016 - elimination race
Last updated: February 20, 2019

Gerben Thijssen (born June 21, 1998 in Genk ) is a Belgian cyclist who competes in races on the road and track .

Athletic career

In 2014 Gerben Thijssen won his first national title when he became Belgian youth champion in the Omnium. He was on the podium in other disciplines. The following year he had his first international successes: He was third in the junior world championship in points driving and together (with Robbe Ghys ) vice European junior champion in two-man team driving . In 2016, Thijssen won a silver medal in the two-man team driving and a bronze medal in the points test at the Junior European Championships with Jules Hester .

At the second round of the Track Cycling World Cup in Apeldoorn in 2016/17 , the Belgian four-man, consisting of Thijssen, Moreno De Pauw , Kenny De Ketele , Robbe Ghys and Jonas Rickaert , finished second. At the six-day race in Gent , Thijssen won the U23 race together with Hester. In October, at the age of 19, he became European champion in the elimination run at the European Railway Championships in Berlin .

In 2018, Thijssen was the Belgian U23 champion in road racing and the elite in the team time trial . The following year he won a stage each of the Tour d'Eure-et-Loir and A Travers les Hauts de France and won the Philippe Van Coningsloo Memorial .

In November 2019, Gerben Thijssen fell at the six-day race in Ghent and had to be hospitalized, where, in addition to fractures, minor cerebral hemorrhages were found. The race was then canceled.

successes

train

2014
  • MaillotBélgica.svg Belgian youth champion - Omnium
2015
2016
2017
2019

Street

2016
2017
2018
  • MaillotBélgica.svg Belgian champion - road race (U23), team time trial
2019

Teams

Web links

Commons : Gerben Thijssen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Six-day race in Gent: First evening canceled after a serious fall. In: rad-net.de. November 13, 2019, accessed November 13, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Thijssen, tanning
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH June 21, 1998
PLACE OF BIRTH Genk