Kris Boeckmans

Kris Boeckmans

Kris Boeckmans (2015)
To person
Date of birth	February 13, 1987
nation	Belgium
discipline	Street
To the team
Current team	B&B Hotels-Vital Concept
function	driver
Last updated: December 25, 2018

Kris Boeckmans (born February 13, 1987 in Malle ) is a Belgian racing cyclist .

Athletic career

After he became European U23 road champion in 2009, he drove as a stagiaire at the UCI ProTeam Silence-Lotto at the end of the season . In 2010 he received a regular contract with the Professional Continental Team Topsport Vlaanderen-Mercator , for which he won stages at the Driedaagse van West-Vlaanderen and the Ster Elektrotoer in his first year . In 2012 he switched to the Dutch team Vacansoleil-DCM , for which he competed in his first Tour de France , which he finished in 115th place.

After winning no international races between 2011 and 2014, he won the one-day races Le Samyn and Nokere Koerse as well as the stage races Tour de Picardie and World Ports Classic in 2015 as a member of the Lotto Belisol team . In a fall on the eighth stage of the Vuelta a España 2015 , Boeckmans suffered a facial trauma with multiple fractures, three broken ribs and a lung haemorrhage.

In the 2016 season, Boeckmans returned to racing, but could no longer build on the successes of 2015.

successes

2008

• one stage Tour de Berlin
• a stage Vuelta a Navarra

2009

• Overall ranking and one stage Le Triptyque des Monts et Châteaux
• European Champion - Road Race (U23)
• Schaal Sels

2010

• a stage of the Driedaagse van West-Vlaanderen
• a stage of Ster Elektrotoer

2015

• a stage of the Étoile de Bessèges
• Le Samyn
• Nokere Koerse
• Overall ranking and two stages of the Tour de Picardie
• Overall ranking and one stage World Ports Classic

Grand Tour placements

Grand Tour	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019
Giro d'Italia	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Tour de France	115	DNF	-	-	-	-	-	-
Vuelta a España	-	-	-	DNF	-	-	-	-

Legend: DNF: did not finish , abandoned or withdrawn from the race due to timeout.

Teams

• 2009 Silence Lotto (Stagiaire)
• 2010 Topsport Vlaanderen-Mercator
• 2011 Topsport Vlaanderen-Mercator
• 2012 Vacansoleil-DCM
• 2013 Vacansoleil-DCM
• 2014 Belisol Lotto
• 2015 Lotto Soudal
• 2016 Lotto Soudal
• 2017 Lotto Soudal
• 2018 Vital Concept Cycling Club
• 2019 Vital Concept-B & B Hotels
• 2020 B&B Hotels-Vital Concept

Web links

Commons : Kris Boeckmans  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Kris Boeckmans in the ProCyclingStats.com database
• Kris Boeckmans in the Radsportseiten.net database
• Official website (Dutch)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Boeckmans put into an artificial coma after a serious fall. In: radsport-news.com. April 23, 2015. Retrieved August 29, 2015 .