Mike Teunissen

Mike Teunissen
	Mike Teunissen at the Münsterland Giro 2018 .
To person
Date of birth	August 25, 1992
nation	Netherlands
discipline	Road cycling, cyclocross
To the team
Current team	Team Jumbo-Visma
function	driver
Team (s)
2013–2014 ; 2015–2016 ; 2017–2018 ; 2019-	Rabobank Development Team ; Team Lotto NL-Jumbo ; Sunweb ; Jumbo-Visma
Most important successes
	UCI WorldTour 2019 a stage Tour de France Cyclocross world championships 2013 : World Champion (U23)
	Last updated: November 17, 2018

Mike Teunissen (born August 25, 1992 in Ysselsteyn ) is a Dutch cyclist .

Career

Teunissen was initially particularly successful in cyclocross , where he was the Dutch youth champion in 2008 and European and 2013 world champion in the U23 class. For the 2013 season, he signed a contract with the Dutch Rabobank Development Team and won the Baronie Breda Classic, his first road bike race on an international cycling calendar . He was able to repeat the success in the following year and was also victorious in the U23 event from Paris-Roubaix .

From the 2015 season Teunissen drove for the first time for a UCI WorldTeam , the Dutch team Lotto NL-Jumbo, for which he won the prologue of the Tour de l'Ain in his first year and contested his first Grand Tour with the Vuelta a España and finished 104th. finished. He drove his first Tour de France in 2017 as a member of the German team Sunweb and was 129th in the overall ranking.

In 2018 the Dutchman finished second behind Yves Lampaert in the semi-classic Dwars door Vlaanderen , and came eleventh at Paris-Roubaix . At the Dutch championships, he was fifth in the road race. In 2019 he won two stages and the overall ranking of the 4 Jours de Dunkerque , one stage, the Hammer Climb, and the overall ranking of the Hammer Stavanger , the overall ranking of the ZLM Tour and the first stage of the Tour de France .

Overall classification, points classification and two stages of 4 Jours de Dunkerque
Overall standings and Hammer Climb Hammer Stavanger
Overall ranking ZLM Tour
a stage and team time trial Tour de France