Thalita de Jong

Thalita de Jong

Thalita de Junge (2016)
To person
Date of birth	6th November 1993 (age 26)
nation	Netherlands
discipline	Road / cyclo-cross racing
Most important successes
Cyclocross world championships 2016 world champion
Last updated: June 5, 2020

Thalita de Jong (born November 6, 1993 in Bergen op Zoom ) is a Dutch cyclist who is active in road cycling and cross-country races .

Career

In 2011 Thalita de Jong became the Dutch junior champion in the individual time trial .

2013 she won at the 2013 UCI Road World Championships , together with teammates from Rabobank Liv Giant in the team time trial finished second, and two years later she was with the team at Rabobank Liv Woman Cycling Team third in the World Championships

In January 2016, de Jong won the world champion title in cyclo-cross racing in Heusden-Zolder, Belgium, as well as the national title in this discipline. The following year, she was unable to defend her title because of a torn hamstring. In the following time she suffered from further injuries, got wrong diagnoses and developed depression, so that she only competed in a few races and had no successes to show. From May 2019 she started for the newly founded Chevalmeire team , of which she was initially the only member.

successes

2011

• Dutch Junior Champion - Individual Time Trial

2013

• World Championship - team time trial (with Marianne Vos , Annemiek van Vleuten , Roxane Knetemann , Pauline Ferrand-Prévot and Lucinda Brand )

2014

• Team time trial Lotto-Decca Tour (with Annemiek van Vleuten , Marianne Vos and Anna van der Breggen )

2015

• World Championship - Team Time Trial (with Lucinda Brand , Shara Gillow , Roxane Knetemann , Katarzyna Niewiadoma and Anna van der Breggen )
• one stage Holland Ladies Tour
• Erondegemse Pijl
• Grand Prix de la Commune Contern

2016

• a stage of the Giro d'Italia Femminile

• two half-stages Giro del Trentino Alto Adige

Cyclocross

2015/2016

• World championship cyclocross
• Dutch champion
• Pétange
• De Ster, Sint Niklaas

2016/2017

• - European champion
• Kasteelcross Zonnebeke

• Valkenburg aan de Geul

2017/2018

• Zonnebeke

Teams

• 2011 Rabobank Women Cycling Team
• 2012 Stichting Rabo Women Cycling Team
• 2013 Rabobank Women Cycling Team
• 2014 Rabo Liv Women Cycling Team
• 2015 Rabo Liv Women Cycling Team
• 2016 Rabo Liv Women Cycling Team
• 2017 Lares-Waowdeals
• 2018 Experza-Footlogix (until September 10th)
• 2020 Chevalmeire Cycling Team

Web links

Commons : Thalita de Jong  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Thalita de Jong in the database of Radsportseiten.net
• Thalita de Jong in the ProCyclingStats.com database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Cross: De Jong cannot defend her world title due to a torn muscle - cycling at. In: rad-net.de. January 24, 2017. Retrieved January 28, 2017 . 
2. ↑ Ad Pertijs: Na eenzaam gevecht bloeit de wielrenster weer in Thalita de Jong: 'Met mij moet je patient zijn'. In: bndestem.nl. June 7, 2019, accessed June 8, 2019 (Dutch).