Jelle Wallays
Jelle Wallays (2015) | |
To person | |
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Date of birth | 11th May 1989 (age 31) |
nation | Belgium |
discipline | Street |
height | 185 cm |
Racing weight | 77 kg |
To the team | |
Current team | Lotto Soudal |
function | driver |
Team (s) | |
2011–2015 2016– |
Topsport Vlaanderen-Baloise Lotto Soudal |
Most important successes | |
Paris – Tours 2014, 2019 |
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Last updated: September 29, 2018 |
Jelle Wallays (born May 11, 1989 in Roeselare ) is a Belgian road cyclist .
Career
In 2007 Jelle Wallays won one stage each in the junior class at Závod Míru and at the Sint-Martinusprijs Kontich . In the 2009 season he drove for the Belgian club team Beveren 2000-Quick Step. Here he finished fifth in the U23 event at Paris-Roubaix and won the one-day race Zillebeke-Westouter-Zillebeke. In 2010 he was successful at Gent-Staden, at the Grand Prix Claude Criquielion, at a stage of the Tour de Namur and at the U23 edition of Paris-Tours . At the end of the season he drove for the Belgian professional Continental Team Topsport Vlaanderen-Mercator as a stagiaire from 2011 onwards.
His greatest success to date was in 2013 after a 30-kilometer solo journey on the first stage of the World Ports Classic . In 2014 he won the classic Paris-Tours in a two-man sprint against Thomas Voeckler . The two drivers ran away with nine other drivers shortly after the start.
In 2015 he won the Belgian semi-classic Dwars door Vlaanderen after breaking away from his group of four with one kilometer to go, while his team-mate Edward Theuns came second.
In 2016 Wallays then moved to the Belgian UCI WorldTeam Lotto Soudal . After two comparatively unsuccessful seasons, Jelle Wallays was able to secure his first WorldTour victory at the Vuelta a España 2018 on the 18th stage , after having been in a breakaway group for almost the entire stage, the peloton barely from in the last hundred meters could stay away and finally defeated his escape companion Sven Erik Bystrøm in a sprint.
successes
- 2010
- Paris – Tours (U23)
- 2013
- one stage World Ports Classic
- 2014
- 2015
- 2016
- 2018
- a stage Vuelta a San Juan Internacional
- a stage Vuelta a España
- 2019
Grand Tour placements
Grand Tour | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 |
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Giro d'Italia | - | - | - | - |
Tour de France | - | - | - | - |
Vuelta a España | 92 | 151 | 143 | 144 |
Teams
- 2010 Topsport Vlaanderen-Mercator (Stagiaire)
- 2011 Topsport Vlaanderen-Mercator
- 2012 Topsport Vlaanderen-Mercator
- 2013 Topsport Vlaanderen-Baloise
- 2014 Topsport Vlaanderen-Baloise
- 2015 Topsport Vlaanderen-Baloise
- 2016 Lotto Soudal
- 2017 Lotto Soudal
- 2018 Lotto Soudal
- 2019 Lotto Soudal
Individual evidence
- ↑ cycling news. from August 30, 2013: Sprinter teams speculate against Wallays, Greipel second.
- ↑ radsport-news.com of October 12, 2014: Wallays and Voeckler duped Degenkolb and Démare.
- ↑ KIrsten Frattini: Wallays wins Dwars door Vlaanderen. In: cyclingnews.com. March 25, 2015, accessed September 29, 2018 .
- ^ Vuelta stage 18: Wallays holds off Sagan. In: velonews.com. Retrieved September 29, 2018 .
Web links
- official website
- Jelle Wallays in the database of Radsportseiten.net
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Wallays, Jelle |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Belgian road cyclist |
DATE OF BIRTH | May 11, 1989 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Roeselare |