Victor Campenaerts
Victor Campenaerts (2017) | |
To person | |
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Date of birth | 28th October 1991 (age 28) |
nation | Belgium |
discipline | Street |
Driver type | Time trial |
height | 173 cm |
Racing weight | 73 kg |
To the team | |
Current team | NTT Pro Cycling |
function | driver |
Team (s) | |
2014–2015 2016–2017 2018–2019 2020 |
Topsport Vlaanderen-Baloise Team Lotto NL-Jumbo Lotto Soudal NTT Pro Cycling |
Most important successes | |
Last updated: April 17, 2019 |
Victor Campenaerts (born October 28, 1991 in Wilrijk ) is a Belgian cyclist . He was European time trial champion in 2017 and 2018 . On April 16, 2019, he improved the previous hour record to 55.089 kilometers.
Career
Victor Campenaerts was European champion in the U23 individual time trial in 2013. He had previously become Belgian champion in this discipline. In 2014 he got a contract with Topsport Vlaanderen-Baloise . In 2015 he won the French duo Normand , a pair time trial, with his teammate Jelle Wallays . A few months earlier, Campenaerts was the best young driver in the Tour de Wallonie .
In 2016 he moved to the UCI WorldTeam Lotto NL-Jumbo . He also became Belgian champion in the individual time trial. In September 2016 he won the silver medal at the European championships in the individual time trial in Plumelec . At the Ruta del Sol 2017 he won the individual time trial with one second ahead of Alejandro Valverde .
Campenaerts caused a sensation during the individual time trial on the tenth stage of the Giro d'Italia 2017 , where he crossed the finish line with his jersey open. Carlien data was written on his torso , with which he asked triathlete Carlien Carvel , with whom he often trains and asked for a date. Carvel agreed to a date. The UCI punished the action with CHF 100 . At the UEC European Road Championships in 2017 , he won gold in the individual time trial with three seconds ahead of Maciej Bodnar from Poland .
In 2018 he was able to successfully defend his European time trial title, this time with a lead of six hundredths of a second over Jonathan Castroviejo , and at the World Championships in Innsbruck he won the bronze medal in the individual time trial, just five hundredths of a second behind second-placed Tom Dumoulin .
In February 2019, the World Cycling Federation UCI confirmed the dates April 16 or 17, 2019, when Campenaerts wanted to tackle the hour record on the track in the Velodromo Bicentenario in Aguascalientes, Mexico ; the track is over 1500 meters high, which is why many records have been set on it. On April 16, Campenaerts improved Bradley Wiggins' previous hour record of 54.526 kilometers, which he had set in June 2015 at London's Lee Valley Velodrome . He drove 55,089 kilometers in an hour and outbid Wiggins by 563 meters. This also made him the first driver to break the 55-kilometer limit. The last Belgian hour record holder was Eddy Merckx , who had reached 49.431 kilometers in October 1972.
successes
- 2013
- 2015
- Duo Normand (with Jelle Wallays )
- Tour de Wallonie junior competition
- 2016
- Belgian champion - individual time trial
- European Championship - Individual Time Trial
- 2017
- a stage of the Ruta del Sol
- European Champion - Individual Time Trial
- 2018
- Belgian champion - individual time trial
- European Champion - Individual Time Trial
- World Championship - Individual Time Trial
- 2019
- a stage Tirreno – Adriatico
- a stage tour of Belgium
- 2020
- Nedbank Cycle Classic
- European Championship - Individual Time Trial
Placements in the Grand Tours
Grand Tour | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 |
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Giro d'Italia | - | - | - | DNF | DNF | 111 |
Tour de France | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Vuelta a España | - | - | 143 | - | 102 | - |
Web links
- Victor Campenaerts in the ProCyclingStats.com database
Individual evidence
- ↑ 656 doping controls at this year's Tour de France. radsport-news.com, October 2, 2015, accessed December 3, 2016 .
- ↑ Campenaerts and Pinot champions in the fight against the clock for the first time. radsport-news.com, June 23, 2016, accessed December 3, 2016 .
- ↑ Castroviejo wins gold in the professional time trial. radsport-news.com, September 15, 2016, accessed December 3, 2016 .
- ↑ One second - Valverde gets back from Contador Rot. radsport-news.com, February 17, 2017, accessed November 21, 2017 .
- ↑ Teambus forgets gifts, Campenaert's dating request punished. radsport-news.com, May 18, 2017, accessed November 21, 2017 .
- ↑ Campenaerts wins EM gold in the time trial. radsport-news.com, August 3, 2017, accessed November 21, 2017 .
- ^ Caley Fretz: A date with the Hour Record; Ice-T's fandom; Valverde back on top: Daily News Digest. In: CyclingTips. February 27, 2019, accessed February 26, 2019 .
- ↑ Campenaerts breaks the hour record. In: Grenzecho. April 16, 2019, accessed April 16, 2019 .
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Campenaerts, Victor |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Belgian cyclist |
DATE OF BIRTH | October 28, 1991 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Wilrijk |