Jens Debusschere

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Jens Debusschere (2018)

Jens Debusschere (born August 28, 1989 in Roeselare ) is a Belgian track and road cyclist .

Career

Jens Debusschere was the Belgian champion in the team pursuit of the junior class in 2006 on the track . The next year he was the Belgian road racing champion and he won the junior competition of the Ronde van Vlaanderen . He was also successful in the Vlaams-Brabant Classic Zemst-Laar and in part of the Keizer of the Juniores Koksijde . In the U23 class , Debusschere won the provincial championship in West Flanders and two stages in the Ronde van Vlaams-Brabant in 2009 .

At the end of the 2009 season he drove as a stagiaire for the Belgian Professional Continental Team Topsport Vlaanderen-Mercator . The following year Debusschere drove again Stagiare, this time at Omega Pharma-Lotto , where he was also under contract in 2011. In 2011 he moved to the Lotto Belisol Team , which took over the majority of the drivers in the Omega Pharma-Lotto team .

He achieved his first successes in international elite races in 2013 when he won the Kampioenschap van Vlaanderen , a stage and the overall ranking of the Tour de l'Eurométropole and the Nationale Sluitingsprijs . He won these races by winning mass sprints.

family

His two older brothers Maxim Debusschere and Kevin Debusschere are also both cyclists. Maxim drove for the Belgian cyclocross team Sunweb Pro Job in 2007 and 2008 and as a stagiaire for the Russian UCI ProTeam Katusha at the end of the 2009 season . In 2010 Maxim and Jens rode together for the PWS Eijssen Cycling Team .

successes

train

2006

Street

2007
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018

Grand Tour placements

Grand Tour 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
Maglia Rosa Giro d'Italia - - - - - - 136 -
Yellow jersey Tour de France - - - 145 DNF - - 153
Red jersey Vuelta a España DNF - 107 - - DNF
Legend: DNF: did not finish , abandoned or withdrawn from the race due to timeout.

Teams

Individual evidence

  1. radsport-news.com from September 20, 2013: Kittel falls, Debusschere wins
  2. radsport-news.com of October 3, 2013: Belgian triple victory at the start of the Tour de l´Eurométropole
  3. radsport-news.com from October 15, 2013: The end of the season is too early for Debusschere

Web links

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