Louis Meintjes

Louis Meintjes

To person
Full name	Louis Meintjes (2015)
Date of birth	February 21, 1992
nation	South Africa
discipline	Street
Driver type	Mountain riders
To the team
Current team	NTT Pro Cycling
function	driver
Societies)
2011 2012	Toyoto Supercycling Academy Lotto-Belisol U23 Team
Team (s)
2013–2015 2016 2017 2018–	MTN Qhubeka Lampre-Merida UAE Team Emirates NTT Pro Cycling
Most important successes
Settimana Internazionale 2015
Last updated: October 3, 2018

Louis Meintjes (born February 21, 1992 in Pretoria ) is a South African racing cyclist .

Career

In 2010 Louis Meintjes was two-time South African junior champion, in cycling and in the individual time trial . In 2011 he finished second at the Africa Road Championships in Asmara in both the individual and team time trials (with Herman Fouche , Reinardt Janse van Rensburg and Jacobus Venter ) and finished 18th in the individual time trial at the Road World Championships (U23). In 2012 he was the South African U23 time trial champion and second in the road race. In the 2013 season Meintjes joined Team MTN Qhubeka as a neoprofessional .

During the Vuelta a España 2015 , which he surprisingly finished tenth overall, he announced that he had signed a two-year contract with Team Lampre-Merida . In the service of this team, he took part in the Tour de France for the second time and was eighth overall. In the junior ranking he finished second behind Adam Yates after being one of the favorites for this ranking. At the Tour de France 2017 he was again overall eighth.

successes

2010

• South African Champion - Individual Time Trial (Juniors)
• South African Champion - Road Race (Juniors)
• African Championship - Individual Time Trial (Juniors)
• African Championship - Road Race (Juniors)

2011

• African Championship - Team Time Trial
• African Championship - Individual Time Trial
• African Championship - Individual Time Trial (U23)

2012

• South African Champion - Individual Time Trial (U23)

2013

• South African Champion - Individual Time Trial (U23)
• South African Champion - Road Race (U23)
• Tour de Korea team time trial
• World Championship - Road Race (U23)
• one stage Tour of Rwanda

2014

• South African Champion - Individual Time Trial (U23)
• South African champion - road race
• South African Champion - Road Race (U23)
• one stage Mzansi tour

2015

• African Championship - Team Time Trial (with Nickolas Dlamini , Reinardt Janse van Rensburg and Jay Robert Thomson )
• African Championship - Road Race
• Overall ranking and a stage Settimana Internazionale

Grand Tour placements

Grand Tour	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019
Giro d'Italia	-	-	-	-	DNF	-
Tour de France	-	DNF	8th	8th	-	-
Vuelta a España	55	10	40	12	59	51

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

Web links

Commons : Louis Meintjes  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Louis Meintjes in the Radsportseiten.net database
• A New Star is Born on bicycling.co.za v. March 16, 2011 (Engl.)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Meintjes Has Good Start to Road World Champs on cyclingsa.com v. September 21, 2011 ( Memento of October 11, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
2. ^ Daniel Benson: Louis Meintjes signs for Lampre-Merida . September 3, 2015. Accessed October 30, 2015.
3. ↑ Tour de France preview: Who will be the best young professional? In: velomotion.de. Retrieved July 25, 2016 .