Iljo Keisse

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Iljo Keisse Road cycling
Iljo Keisse at the Deutschland Tour 2018 in Bonn
Iljo Keisse at the
Deutschland Tour 2018 in Bonn
To person
Date of birth December 21, 1982
nation BelgiumBelgium Belgium
discipline Railway (endurance) / road
To the team
Current team Deceuninck-Quick-Step
function driver
doping
2009–2011
(in Belgium until 2012) 		Cathine , hydrochlorothiazide
Most important successes
train
European champion European Champion - Madison 2005, 2008, 2011
European champion European Champion - Derny Race 2006
Street
a stage of the Giro d'Italia 2015
Last updated: March 9, 2020
Keisse at the Tour de France 2016
Racing shoes from Iljo Keisse in Koers. Museum van de Wielersport in Roeselare

Iljo Keisse (born December 21, 1982 in Ghent ) is a Belgian racing cyclist who is active on track and road . He is the most successful Belgian track cyclist since the early 2000s.

Athletic career

In 1998 Iljo Keisse became Belgian champion for the first time in the single pursuit of the youth class. By 2016 he had won at least another 18 national titles on the track in different age groups. In 2000 alone, he became five-time Belgian junior champion, in the single pursuit, in the points race , in the Omnium , in the 1000-meter time trial and in the two-man team race (with Kristof Sels). In 2004 he and Kenny De Ketele were U23 European champions in two-man team driving. Three times - in 2005, 2008 and 2011 - he was then European champion in the two-man team driving of the elite. In 2006 he also won the continental title in the derny behind pacemaker Michel Vaarten .

Keisse is one of the most successful six-day riders . As a young driver, he won races in the UIV Cup , a youngster competition for six-day drivers, all together with Dimitri De Fauw . In 2004 the two drivers won the overall ranking of the Cup. In the course of his sporting career, he won 30 six-day races (as of 2020) with various partners, including Matthew Gilmore , Robert Bartko , Kenny De Ketele and Franco Marvulli .

Keisse competed at the Olympic Games twice - in 2004 and 2008 . In 2004 in Athens he finished eleventh together with Gilmore in the two-man team. Four years later in Beijing he was twelfth in the points race, in the two-man team race he was fourth with De Ketele.

From 2013 Iljo Keisse started increasingly in road races, in which he also achieved increasing success. In 2015 he won the Ronde van Zeeland Seaports . In the same year he won the 21st and final stage of the Giro d'Italia from Turin to Milan . Keisse himself, who found this Giro “terrible”, described this victory as the “greatest success” of his career. In 2016 he started the Tour de France for the first time and finished 139th in the overall standings.

In November 2018 Keisse won the six-day race in Ghent together with the Italian Elia Viviani ; it was his seventh win there. So he drew level with the Australian Danny Clark .

In January 2019, Iljo Keisse was excluded from the Vuelta a San Juan Internacional for taking a suggestive pose while taking a selfie with a female fan. As a result, team boss Patrick Lefevere threatened to withdraw his team from the tour and accused the harassed woman, who had filed a criminal complaint, financial intentions. In addition, the team did not take part in the podium ceremony after the fourth stage. The sponsor of the team, the Belgian window manufacturer Deceuninck , expressed incomprehension for Keisse's behavior, which one could not accept. Kisse's father, in turn, let it be known that the woman was complicit. A local judge sentenced Keisse to a fine of 70 euros for sexual harassment.

doping

In 2008 Keisse tested positive for the stimulant cathine and the masking substance hydrochlorothiazide (HCT) after his victory in the six-day race in Ghent ; the B sample was also positive. For the six-day season 2009/2010, he returned to the cycling track with a participation in the six-day race in Grenoble after the Belgian Cycling Federation had acquitted him of the doping allegations. The Union Cycliste Internationale , however, prohibited Keiss from starting the six-day race in Rotterdam in January 2010, but he went to the start anyway after suing a Dutch court for his right to start.

The UCI did not accept this decision and the International Court of Justice confirmed Keisse's ban in July 2010. The Belgian Court of Justice declared that it did not have jurisdiction, so that Keisse was banned outside Belgium until August 6, 2011, and in Belgium until January 27, 2012 because he had raced there before the ban was lifted.

Honors

Three years in a row (2014, 2015 and 2016) Keisse received the Kristallen Fiets award from the Belgian newspaper Het Laatste Nieuws as best helper .

successes

train

1998
  • MaillotBélgica.svg Belgian youth champion - one's pursuit
1999
2000
  • MaillotBélgica.svgBelgian Junior Champion - single pursuit, points race, omnium, 1000-meter time trial, two-man team race (with Kristof Sels )
2001
2002
2003
  • MaillotBélgica.svg Belgian champion - one's pursuit
  • MaillotBélgica.svg Belgian champion - points race
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2017
2018
2019

Street

Keisse at the Tour de France 2016
2004
2012
2014
2015
2017

Grand Tour placements

Grand Tour 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018
Maglia Rosa Giro d'Italia 159 139 145 - 144 -
Yellow jersey Tour de France - - - 139 - -
Red jersey Vuelta a España - - - - - -

Teams

Web links

Commons : Iljo Keisse  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stephen Farrand: Keisse ends the Giro d'Italia on a high after three weeks of suffering. In: Cycling News. May 31, 2015, accessed January 16, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Keisse evenaart record by Clark: 'Het was een zotte week'. In: sport.be. November 18, 2018, accessed November 18, 2018 (Dutch).
  3. ↑ Alex Ballinger: Iljo Keisse kicked off Vuelta a San Juan after miming sex act while posing for picture with fan -. In: cyclingweekly.com. January 30, 2019, accessed January 31, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Kisse's appearance in San Juan calls the sponsor on the scene. In: radsport-news.com. January 31, 2019, accessed January 31, 2019 .
  5. ↑ LiVE-Radsport.ch
  6. ↑ Rotterdam six-day race without defending champion Keisse on radsport-news.com
  7. ↑ Stam / Van Bon in the Rotterdam six-day race in the lead on radsport-news.com
  8. ↑ Professional cyclist Keisse remains blocked handelsblatt.com May 6, 2011 ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.handelsblatt.com
  9. ↑ Quick Step rider Iljo Keisse has two-year doping ban upheld by Court of Arbitration for Sport telegraph.co.uk May 6, 2011
  10. ^ Knecht en Keizer. Koers. Museum van de Wielersport , accessed April 2, 2020 . (PDF file).
personal data
SURNAME Keisse, Iljo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH December 21, 1982
PLACE OF BIRTH Ghent