Sven Nys
Sven Nys (born June 17, 1976 in Bonheiden , Belgium ) is a former Belgian cyclist . He is one of the most popular athletes in Belgium. Nys achieved his greatest successes in cyclocross and is considered the most successful rider in this discipline since the turn of the millennium.
In particular, Nys became the U23 cyclocross world champion in 1997 and 1998 and was able to repeat this success in the elite class in 2005 and 2013. Nys was the overall winner of the season's races in the cyclocross world cup classification seven times . No other driver has ever achieved this.
Cycling career
Nys won the U23 cyclocross world championships in 1997 and 1998 . In 1998 he became a member of the Dutch cycling team Rabobank and competed in road cycling competitions for this team without being able to build on his successes in the field. Among other things, he started in 2001 and 2002 in the classic Paris-Roubaix cycle and was 41st and 36th respectively in 2005 and 2013 he was cyclocross world champion in the elite class.
In mountain bike sport, he was three times cross-country champion in his country, but had to give up the mountain bike race at the 2012 Olympic Games . In 2011 Nys became a member of the Athletes' Commission of the World Cycling Federation UCI .
After the end of the 2015/2016 cross season, Nijs ended his active career and took over the management of the UCI Continental team Telenet-Fidea .
successes
Cyclocross
Mountain bike
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2005
2007
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2013
2014
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Athletes Commission. live cycling, November 22, 2011, accessed May 12, 2016 .
- ↑ Nys takes over Telenet-Fidea after retirement. rad-net.de, December 21, 2015, accessed on May 12, 2016 .
literature
- Frederik Bakelandt: Why Belgium loves Sven Nys, in: Procycling (German edition) February 2014, p. 49ff
Web links
- Official website (English / French / Dutch)
- Sven Nys in the database of Radsportseiten.net
1950 Jean Robic | 1951–1953 Roger Rondeaux | 1954–1958 André Dufraisse | 1959, 1962, 1964, 1965, 1967 Renato Longo | 1960, 1961, 1963 Rolf Wolfshohl | 1966, 1968–1973 Erik De Vlaeminck | 1974 Albert Van Damme | 1975 Roger De Vlaeminck | 1976–1979, 1986 Albert Zweifel | 1980, 1982–1984 Roland Liboton | 1981 Hennie Stamsnijder | 1985, 1987 Klaus-Peter Thaler | 1988 Pascal Richard | 1989 Danny De Bie | 1990 Henk Baars | 1991 Radomír Šimunek | 1992 Mike Kluge | 1993 Dominique Arnould | 1994 Paul Herijgers | 1995 Dieter Runkel | 1996 Adrie van der Poel | 1997 Daniele Pontoni | 1998, 1999, 2002 Mario De Clercq | 2000 Richard Groenendaal | 2001, 2006, 2007 Erwin Vervecken | 2003, 2004 Bart Wellens | 2005, 2013 Sven Nys | 2008 Lars Boom | 2009, 2012 Niels Albert | 2010, 2011, 2014 Zdeněk Štybar | 2015, 2019, 2020 Mathieu van der Poel | 2016–2018 Wout Van Aert
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| SURNAME | Nys, Sven |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Nijs, Sven |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Belgian cyclocross rider |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 17th June 1976 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bonheiden (Belgium) |