Nick van der Lijke

Nick van der Lijke
	Nick van der Lijke (2015)
To person
Nickname	Nicky
Date of birth	September 23, 1991
nation	Netherlands
discipline	Road / train
To the team
Current team	Roompot-Charles
function	driver
Most important successes
	UEC European Championships 2018 - Derny
	Last updated: September 9, 2018

Nick "Nicky" van der Lijke (born September 23, 1991 in Middelburg ) is a Dutch cyclist who competes in races on the road and track .

Athletic career

Van der Lijke was runner-up in the 2007 Dutch championships for young people in road racing . A year later he finished on the podium in the overall rankings of the junior stage races Ronde van Antwerpen and West-Brabantse Pijl . In 2009 he was sixth in the final classification of the Giro della Lunigiana . For the 2010 season van der Lijke received a contract with the Rabobank Continental team . In the 2012 season he won both a stage and the overall ranking of the Tour de Gironde , with which van der Lijke celebrated his first victories on the UCI Europe Tour . In 2015 he started at the Giro d'Italia and finished 86th overall. In 2016 he won the junior ranking of the Tour des Fjord and was third in the overall ranking, in 2017 he finished second in the mountain ranking of the Tour de Suisse .

In 2018 Nick van der Lijke started on the track and became European champion in the derny race behind pacemaker René Kos . The following year he was unable to defend his European Championship title because he fell on the first stage of the Tour of Norway in May of that year and had to undergo shoulder surgery. He was not able to compete again until the end of August.