Gijs Van Hoecke (born 12 November 1991) is a retired Belgian cyclist, who last rode for UCI WorldTeam .
Career In 2011, when he was 19 years old, he was selected to participate at the Track Cycling World Championships, where he won the bronze medal in the Men's omnium. One year later, at the World Championships in Melbourne, he finished ninth in the same event and became Madison World Champion.
At the 2012 Summer Olympics, he competed in the Men's team pursuit for the Belgian national team, and the men's omnium.
Van Hoecke won the bronze medal at the Madison in the 2013 European Track Championships. During that year, he also won his first six-day race in Amsterdam.
In 2014, Van Hoecke won the Internationale Wielertrofee Jong Maar Moedig road race. In May 2018, he was named in the startlist for the 2018 Giro d'Italia.
In August 2018 he announced that he would join the for 2019, working as a domestique for his training partner, Greg Van Avermaet. Van Hoecke remained with the team into the 2020 season; that August, it was announced that Van Hoecke would join the on a two-year contract, from the start of the 2021 season.
Major results Road Source:
2009 1st Overall Giro della Toscana Juniors 5th Overall Münsterland Tour 2011 1st Overall Ronde van de Provincie Antwerpen 2nd Paris–Tours Espoirs 2012 3rd Ronde van Zeeland Seaports 2013 2nd Grand Prix Criquielion 2014 1st Internationale Wielertrofee Jong Maar Moedig 2015 1st Combativity classification, Eneco Tour 8th Internationale Wielertrofee Jong Maar Moedig 10th Overall Ster ZLM Toer 10th Ronde van Limburg 2016 6th Overall Danmark Rundt 8th Overall Ster ZLM Toer 2019 6th Overall Okolo Slovenska 2021 9th Grand Prix of Aargau Canton
Grand Tour general classification results timeline Grand Tour 20182019202020212022202320242025 Giro d'Italia 122——————153 Tour de France ———————— Vuelta a España ————————
+ Legend — Did not compete DNF Did not finish
Track
2008 2nd Madison, UCI World Junior Championships National Junior Championships 2nd Omnium 2nd Team pursuit 2nd Kilo 2nd Individual pursuit 2009 1st Omnium, National Junior Championships 2nd Madison, UCI World Junior Championships (with Jochen Deweer) 2010 2nd Omnium, UEC European Under-23 Championships 2nd Scratch, UCI World Cup Classics, Cali 2011 1st Scratch, UCI World Cup, Astana 3rd Omnium, UCI World Championships 2012 1st Madison, UCI World Championships (with Kenny De Ketele) UEC European Under-23 Championships 2nd Madison (with Jasper De Buyst) 3rd Team pursuit 2nd Six Days of Ghent (with Kenny De Ketele) 3rd Team pursuit, UCI World Cup, Glasgow 2013 1st Six Days of Amsterdam (with Kenny De Ketele) 3rd Madison, UEC European Championships (with Kenny De Ketele) 3rd Six Days of Ghent (with Kenny De Ketele) 2015 2nd Six Days of Ghent (with Kenny De Ketele) 3rd Six Days of London (with Iljo Keisse)
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