Tosh Van der Sande

Tosh van der Sande

Tosh van der Sande (2016)
To person
Date of birth	November 28, 1990
nation	Belgium
discipline	Road / train
To the team
Current team	Lotto Soudal
function	driver
Most important successes
UCI Track World Championships for Juniors 2008 - two-man team driving
Last updated: May 29, 2018

Tosh Van der Sande (born November 28, 1990 in Wilrijk, Antwerp ) is a Belgian cyclist .

Athletic career

Van der Sande was already several Belgian champions on the track in his youth and became junior world champion in the points race in 2008 . He also won the silver medal in the Madison at the same world championships with Gijs Van Hoecke . In 2010 he and Jochen Deweer became vice European champion of the U23 in the two-man team.

From 2011 Van der Sande drove for the Omega Pharma-Lotto-Davo team, the Omega Pharma-Lotto team's junior racing team . In his first season for the team, he was able to win the U23 event from Liège – Bastogne – Liège and two stages of the Triptyque des Monts et Châteaux on the road . In 2012 he switched to Lotto Soudal . In 2016 he won a stage of the Tour de l'Ain .

In December 2018, Van der Sande was suspended from his Lotto Soudal team after testing positive at the Ghent six-day race . The team insisted on the suspension despite the fact that the substance in their nasal spray is approved. The team said they wanted to wait for the results of an investigation by the World Cycling Federation UCI . In January 2019 Van der Sande was informed by the UCI that the doping process against him had been discontinued.

successes

train

2006

• Belgian champion - points race (youth)
• Belgian Champion - Scratch (Youth)

2007

• Belgian Champion - Points race (Juniors)
• Belgian Champion - Scratch (Juniors)

2008

• Belgian Champion - Team Pursuit (Juniors) (with Alphonse Vermote , Simon Verhamme and Thomas Sprengers )
• Belgian Champion - Scratch (Juniors)
• Belgian Champion - Points race (Juniors)
• Belgian Champion - Madison (Juniors) (with Simon Verhamme)
• World Champion - points race (Juniors)
• World Championship - Madison (Juniors) (with Gijs Van Hoecke )

2010

• U23 European Championship - Madison with Jochen Deweer

Street

2011

• Liège – Bastogne – Liège (U23)
• two stages of the Triptyque des Monts et Châteaux

2016

• a stage Tour de l'Ain

2019

• a stage Tour de Wallonie

Grand Tour placements

Grand Tour	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019
Giro d'Italia	-	93	-	-	-	DNF	64
Tour de France	-	-	-	109	-	-	-
Vuelta a España	127	-	49	-	-	114	65

Legend: DNF: did not finish , abandoned or withdrawn from the race due to timeout.

Teams

• 2011 Omega Pharma-Lotto-Davo
• 2011 Omega Pharma Lotto (Stagiaire)
• 2012 Lotto Belisol Team
• 2013 Lotto Belisol
• 2014 Belisol Lotto
• 2015 Lotto Soudal
• 2016 Lotto Soudal
• 2017 Lotto Soudal
• 2018 Lotto Soudal
• 2019 Lotto Soudal

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Alex Ballinger: Lotto-Soudal rider Tosh Van der Sande suspended after positive test at Ghent Six Day. In: Cycling Weekly. December 19, 2018, accessed December 27, 2018 . 
2. ↑ Van der Sander acquitted of doping charges. In: radsport-news.com. January 23, 2019, accessed January 23, 2019 . 

Web links

Commons : Tosh Van der Sande  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Tosh Van der Sande in the ProCyclingStats.com database
• Tosh Van der Sande in the Radsportseiten.net database
• Official website (Dutch)