Jens Keukeleire

Jens Keukeleire
	Jens Keukeleire (2015)
To person
Date of birth	November 23, 1988
nation	Belgium
discipline	Street
To the team
Current team	EF Pro Cycling
Most important successes
	2016 12th stage Vuelta a España 2017, 2018 Tour of Belgium
	Last updated: February 15, 2020

Jens Keukeleire (born November 23, 1988 in Bruges ) is a Belgian road cyclist .

Athletic career

Jens Keukeleire finished fourth in the road race of the U23 European Championship. In 2010 he became part of the French cycling team Cofidis and won the one-day races Le Samyn and Nokere-Koerse as well as a stage and the overall classification of the Driedaagse van West-Vlaanderen in his first year as a professional . In 2013 he won two stages of the Burgos Tour . In 2016 he won a stage each of the Tour de Slovénie and the Vuelta a España ; he also won the sprint ranking of the Abu Dhabi Tour . In both 2017 and 2018, he won the overall ranking of the Tour of Belgium .

By 2018, Keukeleire took part in seven major country tours . After a fall in which he is a broken fibula drew upon, he had the Tour de France in 2018 to give up after the ninth stage. The Australian Richie Porte , who also had to finish the race, was also involved in this fall .