Wout Van Aert

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Wout Van Aert Road cycling
Wout van Aert (2017)
Wout van Aert (2017)
To person
Date of birth September 15, 1994
nation BelgiumBelgium Belgium
discipline Cyclocross , street
height 1.87 m
Racing weight 78 kg
To the team
Current team Jumbo Visma
function driver
Team (s)
2013–02 / 2014
03 / 2014–2015
2016
2017–2018
2019– 		Telenet-Fidea
Vastgoedservice-Golden Palace
Crelan-Vastgoedservice
Vérandas Willems-Crelan
Team Jumbo-Visma
Most important successes
World Champion Cross World Champion 2016, 2017, 2018
Milan – Sanremo 2020
Strade Bianche 2020
a stage Tour de France 2019
Last updated: August 1st, 2020

Wout Van Aert (born September 15, 1994 in Herentals ) is a Belgian cyclist who competes in cyclocross and road races .

Career

Van Aert won the silver medal in the junior class at the world championships in cyclocross in 2012 and took third place in the U23 class a year later. In 2014 he became world and European champion in this class. In the same year he also won the Duinencross Koksijde , with which he won his first World Cup race in the elite class. On January 31, 2016, he was elite world champion in cyclocross in Zolder , Belgium, ahead of the Dutchman Lars van der Haar and his compatriot Kevin Pauwels . He repeated this success in 2017 and 2018.

Van Aert contested the 2018 road season with the aim of being successful in the classics . He was third in the Strade Bianche , tenth in Gent-Wevelgem and ninth in the Tour of Flanders . His debut at Paris-Roubaix , which he finished 13th, was overshadowed by the death of his team-mate Michael Goolaerts .

After his road team Vérandas Willems-Crelan merged with the Roompot-Nederlandse Loterij team for the 2019 season , he left this despite an ongoing contract, which was released to him by the Union Cycliste Internationale . Between the parties involved, this question remained the subject of a legal dispute before a Belgian court, in which team manager Nick Nuyens sued a labor court in Mechelen for damages amounting to 1,150,000 euros. The lawsuit was dismissed in November 2019.

Van Aert joined the UCI WorldTeam Jumbo-Visma . In his first season for Jumbo-Visma, he was sixth in the classics of Milan-San Remo , 14th on the Tour of Flanders and 22nd in Paris-Roubaix . He won an individual time trial and a mass start stage in the sprint at the Critérium du Dauphiné and thus his first races in the UCI WorldTour . On his Tour de France debut , he was sprint winner of the 10th stage , but had to give up the tour after a fall in the individual time trial, the 13th stage .

After an attack by a top group of five 13 kilometers from the finish, Van Aert won the Strade Bianche WorldTour race, which was postponed to summer due to the COVID-19 pandemic . A week later he won one of the monuments of cycling for the first time with the postponed Milan – Sanremo event .

successes

Street

2016
2017
2018
2019
2020

Cyclocross

Wout van Aert at the Koppenbergcross 2015

2011/12

  • silver World Championship (Juniors)

2012/13

2013/14

2014/15

2015/16

2016/2017

2017/2018

2018/2019

2019/20

Grand Tour placements

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

Honors

Web links

Commons : Wout Van Aert  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Van Aert wants to try the great classics in 2018 -. In: radsport-news.com. Retrieved April 18, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Van Aert: Race strong, result disappointing and it doesn't matter. In: radsport-news.com. April 17, 2018. Retrieved April 18, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Nuyens: New Roompot-Charles team is 'different without Van Aert'. In: cyclingnews.com. November 30, 2018, accessed November 30, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Van Aert does not have to pay millions in compensation. In: radsport-news.com. March 1, 2019, accessed November 26, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Jumbo - Visma signs Van Aert ahead of schedule for the 2019 season . In: radsport-news.com. December 18, 2018, accessed December 18, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Van Aert: “That goes beyond everything else”. In: radsport-news.com. July 15, 2019, accessed July 19, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Bad fall in the tour time trial: Van Aert in the hospital. In: radsport-news.com. July 19, 2019. Retrieved July 19, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Van Aert storms through heat and dust to solo victory. In: radsport-news.com. August 1, 2020, accessed August 2, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Van Aert, Wout
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH September 15, 1994
PLACE OF BIRTH Herentals