Remco Evenepoel

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Remco Evenepoel Road cycling
Remco Evenepoel with his gold medal in the individual time trial at the Junior World Championships (2018)
Remco Evenepoel with his gold medal
in the individual time trial at the Junior World Championships (2018)
To person
Nickname Kannibaal van Schepdaal
Date of birth January 25, 2000
nation BelgiumBelgium Belgium
discipline Street
To the team
Current team Deceuninck-Quick-Step
Most important successes
UCI WorldTour
2019 Clásica San Sebastián
UCI Road World Championships
2019 silver - individual time trial
UCI European Road Championships
2019 European Champion 2016 - individual time trial
Last updated: March 31, 2020

Remco Evenepoel (born January 25, 2000 in Schepdaal ) is a Belgian cyclist .

Athletic career

Remco Evenepoel comes from a cycling family; his father Patrick Evenepoel was also active as a cyclist. The son began his sporting career at the age of five as a football player and competed for the youth teams of RSC Anderlecht and PSV Eindhoven as well as in national teams of different age categories. Most recently he played for KV Mechelen until he switched to cycling in 2017. In autumn of that year he won his first junior races, and in total he achieved 34 victories in 44 races over the next 18 months.

In August 2018, Remco Evenepoel, who had already won both national road titles , became two-time Junior European Champion in Glasgow , winning the road race with a margin of 9:44 minutes. Only a few weeks later he also won individual time trials and junior road races at the World Road Championships in Innsbruck . He then received a contract with Deceuninck-Quick-Step . Because of his success, the Belgian press named him after Eddy Merckx Kannibaal van Schepdaal , but Evenepoel emphasized that he did not want to be called "the next Merckx".

In January 2019 Evenepoel started for his team for the first time at the Vuelta a San Juan Internacional . In the individual time trial of the third stage of the Tour of Argentina , he finished third and was ninth in the overall ranking and winner of the junior ranking. After Evenepoel had won the overall ranking of the Tour of Belgium , a stage race hors categorie , in June 2019 , he won his first start in a UCI WorldTour race , the Clásica San Sebastián, in August . In the penultimate climb he temporarily fell back from the top group, but was able to follow an attack by Toms Skujiņš 20 kilometers before the finish , which he distanced on the last climb and reached the finish with 38 seconds ahead of the closest pursuers.

In August 2019, Remco Evenepoel became European champion in the individual time trial in Alkmaar, the Netherlands , after winning both road titles in the junior class the year before. At the following world championships , he finished second in the individual time trial. He started the 2020 season by winning two tours: In February he won the Vuelta a San Juan Internacional and the Algarve Tour . Subsequently, other races were canceled indefinitely due to the COVID-19 pandemic . After the resumption of the racing calendar in August 2020, he won the first two tours in which he participated, the Vuelta a Burgos and the Tour de Pologne . A few days later, Evenepoel fell when the Lombardy Tour was being held when he fell over a bridge wall. He suffered a fractured pelvis .

successes

2017
  • a stage and points classification Aubel-Thimister-Stavelot
  • La Route des Géants
  • La Philippe Gilbert juniors
2018
  • Kuurne – Brussels – Kuurne (Juniors)
  • Guido Rexbrouck Classic
  • Overall ranking, two stages, points ranking and mountain ranking International Peace Tour (Juniors)
  • Overall classification, one stage and points classification Trophée Center Morbihan
  • MaillotBélgica.svg Belgian Junior Champion - Individual Time Trial, Road Race (Juniors)
  • Overall classification, two stages, points classification and mountain classification GP Général Paton
  • European Champion 2016 European Champion - Individual Time Trial, Road Race (Juniors)
  • Overall classification, one stage, points classification and mountain classification Aubel-Thimister-Stavelot
  • Overall classification, three stages, points classification and mountain classification Giro della Lunigiana
  • World Champion World Champion - Individual Time Trial, Road Race (Juniors)
  • Chrono des Nations (Juniors)
2019
2020

Teams

Web links

Commons : Remco Evenepoel  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ In a few maanden tijd van voetbalkapitein dead winnende wielerbelofte. In: WielerVerhaal. August 25, 2017, accessed January 30, 2019 (Dutch).
  2. ↑ a b Remco Evenepoel: Don't call me the next Eddy Merckx. In: Cycling News. September 25, 2018, accessed January 30, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Zalige reports: Remco Evenepoel deelt vreugde met zijn papa en mama. In: sporza.be. September 25, 2018, accessed January 30, 2019 (Dutch).
  4. ↑ Evenepoel succeeds in a surprise coup at Klasikoa. In: radsport-news.com. August 3, 2019, accessed August 3, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Fuglsang celebrates solo victory, Evenepoel and Schachmann overthrown. In: radsport-news.com. Retrieved August 15, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Evenepoel got off lightly with a pelvic fracture. In: radsport-news.com. August 15, 2020, accessed August 15, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Evenepoel, Remco
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH January 25, 2000
PLACE OF BIRTH Schepdaal