Jürgen Roelandts

Jürgen Roelandts

Jürgen Roelandts (2017)
To person
Date of birth	July 2. 1985
nation	Belgium
discipline	Street
Driver type	Classic specialist
To the team
Current team	Movistar team
function	driver
Team (s)
2004–2007 2008–2009 2010–2011 2012–2014 2015–2017 2018 2019	Davitamon-Win for Life-Jong Vl. Silence-Lotto Omega Pharma-Lotto Lotto Belisol Lotto Soudal BMC Racing Team Movistar Team
Most important successes
Belgian road champion 2008 a stage tour of Poland 2008 Overall ranking Circuit Franco-Belge 2008, 2012
Last updated: November 9, 2018

Jürgen Roelandts (born July 2, 1985 in Asse ) is a Belgian racing cyclist .

Athletic career

In 2002 Roelandts was Belgian champion in the junior road race. He finished third in the time trial, as he did in 2003. In 2004, Roelandts joined the Belgian youth team Jong Vlaanderen . In his first season there he was able to win a stage in the Tour de Namur, where he was also successful in 2006. In 2006, he also won a stage in the Tour of Normandy and in the Tour du Loir-et-Cher . In 2007 he was successful on a section of the Ronde van Vlaams-Brabant and he won the U23 event of the French classic Paris-Tours .

He received his first contract with a UCI ProTeam in 2008 with the Belgian team Silence-Lotto . That year he became the Belgian road champion and won a stage of the Tour of Poland in 2008 and thus a ProTour competition for the first time . He also won the overall ranking of the Circuit Franco-Belge in 2008 . 2012, Roelandts broke during the Tour Down Under in a fall the cervical vertebrae. That same year finished seventh in the road race of the Olympic Games in London and won the Circuit Franco-Belge for the second time.

At the Monument of Cycling Tour of Flanders , Roelandts took third place in 2013, 1:29 minutes behind the winner Fabian Cancellara and just behind Peter Sagan . He was also third in the mass sprint near Milan-Sanremo 2016 behind Arnaud Démare and Ben Swift . In 2018 he finished fifth at Milan-Sanremo.

successes

2002

• Belgian Champion - Road Race (Juniors)

2006

• one stage Tour of Normandy
• one stage Tour du Loir-et-Cher

2007

• Paris – Tours (U23)

2008

• Belgian champion - road race
• Scoring ENECO Tour
• one stage tour of Poland
• Overall ranking and one stage Circuit Franco-Belge

2012

• one stage tour of Luxembourg
• Circuit Franco-Belge

2013

• one stage Tour Méditerranéen

2015

• Grote Prijs Jean-Pierre Monsère

2018

• one stage and MZF Valencia tour

Important placements

Monument to cycling	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018
Milan – Sanremo	-	90	-	-	-	16	23	11	3	-	5
Tour of Flanders	-	-	86	34	-	3	DNF	8th	17th	DNF	27
Paris – Roubaix	DNF	-	39	14th	-	43	-	21st	78	22nd	DNF
Liège – Bastogne – Liège	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Lombardy tour	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

Legend: DNF: did not finish , abandoned or withdrawn from the race due to timeout.

Grand Tour	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019
Giro d'Italia	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	DNF	-	124	-
Tour de France	-	120	85	104	160	111	111	126	136	-
Vuelta a España	119	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

Legend: DNF: did not finish , abandoned or withdrawn from the race due to timeout.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Roelandts breaks a cervical vertebra in a fall on radsport-news.com v. 17th January 2012

Web links

Commons : Jürgen Roelandts  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Jürgen Roelandts in the ProCyclingStats.com database
• Jürgen Roelandts in the database of Radsportseiten.net