Thomas Degand

Thomas Degand
	Thomas Degand (2015)
To person
Date of birth	May 13, 1986
nation	Belgium
discipline	Street
To the team
Current team	Circus Wanty Gobert
function	driver
Most important successes
	Overall ranking Tour du Jura Cycliste 2017;
	Last updated: March 28, 2020

Thomas Degand (born May 13, 1986 in Ronse ) is a Belgian cyclist .

Athletic career

Degand first drove in 2007 and 2008 for the Belgian UCI Continental Team Storez-Ledecq Matériaux , which in 2008 was called Groupe Gobert.com . In 2009 he moved to Veranda's Willems , which changed its name several times in the following years and received a license as a UCI Professional Continental Team from 2011 . Degand won his first competitions on the international calendar in 2010 with the one-day races Circuit de Wallonie and Flèche Ardennaise and the Belgian championship title for elite drivers without a professional contract in the individual time trial . In 2014 he was second overall and stage winner of the Tour du Gévaudan Languedoc-Roussillon .

In the 2015 season Degand rode for the UCI WorldTeam IAM Cycling before returning to his previous team. He contested his first Grand Tour with the Vuelta a España in 2015 . He had to give up the tour on the ninth stage due to the consequences of a fall.

After Degand achieved his greatest career success to date with the overall ranking of the Tour du Jura Cycliste in May 2007 , the rest of the season was marked by falls: During the Tour de France , he fell during a rest day while he was training and a dog in front of his bike ran. He was able to continue the tour and finished 34th in the overall ranking. In September of that year he was hit by a jury's car during the Grand Prix de Wallonie and then had to give up the race.