Jérôme Baugnies

Jérôme Baugnies (born April 1, 1987 in Soignies ) is a Belgian cyclist .

Athletic career

In 2004, Jérôme Baugnies finished seventh as a junior at Paris – Roubaix and ninth at the Tour of Flanders , and the following year he was third in the junior competition at Paris – Roubaix. In 2006 he received his first contract with the Bodysol-Win for Life-Jong Vlaanderen team . In his second year there, he and his teammates won the Volta a Lleida team time trial . He was also fourth in Paris Tours (U23) and second in the Tour of Flanders (U23) in 2008 and second in the national U23 road championship. At the UCI Road World Championships in 2009 , he finished fifth in the U23 race. In 2011 he came second in the round about the financial center Eschborn-Frankfurt , behind the German John Degenkolb . In 2013 he won the Kattekoers , the U23 event in Gent – Wevelgem and the Belgian road championship for elite drivers without a contract.

From 2014 to 2019 Baugnies started for the Wanty-Groupe team . In the first year he decided one stage each of La Tropicale Amissa Bongo Ondimba and the Tour of the Fjord , in 2015 he won the Druivenkoers , in which he also won in the following two years. In 2016 he won the sprint classification of the Ruta del Sol , at a stage of the Rhône-Alpes Isère Tour of the International Wielder Trofee Jong Maar Moedig , which he won again in 2018. In 2017 he suffered a serious fall and a fracture of the thoracic vertebra during the Grand Prix de Wallonie . In 2018 he also won the Grote Prijs Stad Zottegem .