Kenny De Ketele

Kenny De Ketele

Kenny De Ketele (2018)
To person
Date of birth	5th June 1985
nation	Belgium
discipline	Train , road
To the team
Current team	Sport Vlaanderen-Baloise
function	driver
Most important successes
UCI track world championships 2012 two-man team driving 2017 points race 2017, 2019 two-man team driving 2016 points race European championships 2007 points race 2008, 2011 two-man team driving 2009, 2015 derny race
Team (s) as coach
2017-2018	Belgium (Junior Endurance)
Last updated: June 2, 2020

De Ketele in an interview during the Track World Cup 2019

De Ketele in the points race at the 2020 World Cup

Kenny De Ketele (born June 5, 1985 in Oudenaarde ) is a Belgian cyclist .

Athletic career

In 2003 Kenny De Ketele was two-time Belgian junior champion, in the points race and in the single pursuit . In 2004 he and his team-mate Iljo Keisse were U23 European champions in two-man team driving . At the Track Cycling World Cup in Moscow in 2006 he finished fifth in the Madison with his compatriot Keisse, who was De Ketele's standard partner during the Espoir period.

In 2011 De Ketele and Keisse became European champions in two-man team driving ; the following year he won the title of world champion in this discipline with Gijs Van Hoecke . In 2013 he won the bronze medal together with Van Hoecke at the European Railway Championships in Apeldoorn.

Kenny De Ketele started in over 30 six-day races in the course of his career . By 2013 he won four with different partners. In 2015, he and Moreno De Pauw won the first edition of the new six-day race in London . At the UCI Track World Championships 2017 he was runner-up in the points race, and together with Moreno De Pauw he won bronze in the two-man team race. In 2019 he finished third again in the two-man team at the World Track Championships, this time with Robbe Ghys . The two drivers also won the six-day races in Ghent together in 2019 . In January 2020 he won the six-day race in Bremen with Nils Politt .

Miscellaneous

In April 2017, during the World Railroad Championships in Hong Kong , De Ketele was elected to the UCI Athletes Commission together with Kristina Vogel .

From mid-2017 to the end of 2018, Kenny De Ketele was a temporary trainer for the Belgian cycling federation for young track riders in the endurance area; Nicky Cocquyt was his successor .

successes

2004 European Champion - Madison (U23) Belgian champion - one's pursuit 2005 Belgian champion - Madison 2006 European Champion - Madison (U23) Belgian champion - team pursuit 2007 Belgian champion - points race Belgian champion - Derny European champion - points race 2008 Belgian champion - one's pursuit Belgian champion - Madison European Champion - Madison with Iljo Keisse Belgian champion - Derny 2009 Six days Hasselt (with Bruno Risi ) European Champion - Derny (behind Michel Vaarten ) 2011 European Champion - Madison Six days Gent (with Robert Bartko ) 2012 World Champion - two-man team driving with Gijs Van Hoecke Quatre Jours Cycliste de Grenoble with Iljo Keisse Sixday-Nights Zurich with Peter Schep 2013 Six days in Amsterdam with Gijs Van Hoecke European Championship - Madison with Gijs Van Hoecke 2014 Berlin six-day race with Andreas Müller European Championship - Madison with Otto Vergaerde

2015 European Champion - Derny (behind Michel Vaarten ) London six days with Moreno De Pauw 2016 World Championship - points race Berlin six-day race with Moreno De Pauw European Championship - two-man team driving (with Moreno De Pauw ) London six days with Moreno De Pauw 2017 World Championship - points race World Championship - two-man team driving (with Moreno De Pauw ) World Cup in Milton - two-man team driving (with Lindsay De Vylder ) Belgian champion - two-man team driving (with Moreno De Pauw ) Final Six Day Series in Palma (with Moreno De Pauw ) Six days of Gent (with Moreno De Pauw ) 2018 Six days of Rotterdam (with Moreno De Pauw ) Bremen six-day race (with Theo Reinhardt ) European Champion - two-man team driving (with Robbe Ghys ) European Championship - points race 2019 Six days of Copenhagen (with Moreno De Pauw ) World Championship - two-man team driving (with Robbe Ghys ) Belgian champion - points race Six days of Gent (with Robbe Ghys ) 2020 Bremen six-day race (with Nils Politt )

Teams

• 2006 Bodysol-Win For Life
• 2007 Davitamon-Win For Life-Jong Vlaandere
• 2010 Topsport Vlaanderen-Mercator
• 2011 Topsport Vlaanderen-Mercator
• 2012 Topsport Vlaanderen-Mercator
• 2013 Topsport Vlaanderen-Baloise
• 2014 Topsport Vlaanderen-Baloise
• 2015 Topsport Vlaanderen-Baloise
• 2016 Topsport Vlaanderen-Baloise
• 2017 Sport Vlaanderen-Baloise
• 2018 Sport Vlaanderen-Baloise
• 2019 Sport Vlaanderen-Baloise
• 2020 Sport Vlaanderen-Baloise

Web links

Commons : Kenny De Ketele  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Kenny De Ketele in the Radsportseiten.net database
• Kenny De Ketele in the ProCyclingStats.com database
• Kenny De Ketele in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ^ Jacq van Reijendam: 6-daagsen-statistieken, No. 20 . Ed .: Union Internationale des Vélodromes . 2012.
2. ↑ Bernd Mülle: Sixdays in London again after 35 years: de Ketele / de Pauw point winner. In: turus.net. October 24, 2015, accessed October 25, 2015 . 
3. ^ Vogel and De Ketele elected onto the UCI Athletes' Commission. In: uci.ch. April 12, 2017. Retrieved April 13, 2017 . 
4. ↑ Kenny De Ketele wordt coach at Belgian Wielerbond. In: hln.be. June 12, 2017, accessed December 26, 2018 (Dutch). 
5. ↑ Nicky Cocquyt volgt De Ketele op en wordt bondscoach voor jongeren. In: wielerkrant.be. December 4, 2018, accessed December 26, 2018 .