Timo Roosen

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Timo Roosen Road cycling
Roosen at Around Cologne 2016
Roosen at Around Cologne 2016
To person
Date of birth January 11, 1993
nation NetherlandsNetherlands Netherlands
discipline Street
height 1.94 meters
Racing weight 75 kilograms
To the team
Current team Jumbo Visma
function driver
Team (s)
2014
2015–2018
2019–
Rabobank Development Team
Team Lotto NL-Jumbo
Team Jumbo-Visma
Most important successes
2017
Tacx Pro Classic
a stage tour of the fjord
Last updated: May 8, 2020

Timo Roosen (born January 11, 1993 in Tilburg , Province of Noord-Brabant ) is a Dutch cyclist .

Athletic career

In 2011 Timo Roosen won a stage of the prestigious junior tour Sint-Martinusprijs Kontich , in 2013 a stage of the Tour de Berlin . The following year he got his first contract with the Rabobank Development Team and won a stage and in the junior competition of Kreiz Breizh Elites . He then drove for Team Lotto NL-Jumbo from 2015 to 2018 , since Team Jumbo-Visma , and is part of Dylan Groenewegen's sprinter train . In 2017 he decided one stage of the Tour of the Fjord and the Tacx Pro Classic for himself.

Miscellaneous

In early 2019, Roosen's older brother, Sjors, a former cyclist, suffered a spinal cord injury in a traffic accident and has been in a wheelchair ever since . Timo Roosen, who started cycling along the lines of his brother: "I'm now living his dream too."

successes

2011
2013
2014
2017

Grand Tour placements

Grand Tour 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
Maglia Rosa Giro d'Italia - - - - -
Yellow jersey Tour de France - 111 DNF 137 -
Red jersey Vuelta a España 95 - - - -
Legend: DNF: did not finish , abandoned or withdrawn from the race due to timeout.

Web links

Commons : Timo Roosen  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. "Stom" ongeluk zet leven Goirlese wielrenner Sjors Roosen (28) op de kop: "Je moet niet bang zijn een keer uit die rolstoel te donderen". In: bd.nl. December 22, 2019, accessed May 8, 2020 (Dutch).