Moreno Hofland (born 31 August 1991) is a Dutch former professional road bicycle racer, who rode professionally between 2010 and 2021 for the , , and teams.
During his professional career, Hofland took thirteen victories including five at the Tour of Hainan – four stage wins across the 2013 and 2014 races, and the general classification victory in 2013. As well as this, Hofland won the bronze medal in the road race at the 2017 European Road Championships in Denmark, and was the winner of the 2014 Volta Limburg Classic and 2017 Famenne Ardenne Classic one-day races.
Career In 2014 he took a stage win in Paris–Nice. In May 2015, Hofland gave his team its first victory of the season by winning a bunch sprint on the second stage of the Tour de Yorkshire, taking off some pressure on the organization by media outlets. That season he also won a stage of the Ster ZLM Toer. He then joined in 2017, staying with the team for two seasons and winning the Famenne Ardenne Classic in his first season with the Belgian squad. Hofland then joined in 2019. After only starting three races in 2021, he announced his retirement from competition in September of that year, disclosing that he had been suffering from intestinal ischemia, which had disrupted his ability to train and race.
Major results Source:
2010 7th Overall Thüringen Rundfahrt der U23 2011 1st Stage 1 Tour de l'Avenir 1st Stage 3 (TTT) Vuelta Ciclista a León 2nd Overall Kreiz Breizh Elites 1st Stages 2 & 4 2nd Dorpenomloop Rucphen 8th Grand Prix de la Somme 2012 1st Road race, National Under-23 Road Championships 1st Stage 2 Tour de l'Avenir 1st Stage 1 (TTT) Thüringen Rundfahrt der U23 2nd Ster van Zwolle 4th Münsterland Giro 5th Overall Kreiz Breizh Elites 1st Stage 4 6th Paris–Roubaix Espoirs 7th Grand Prix Pino Cerami 10th Val d'Ille Classic 2013 1st Overall Tour of Hainan 1st Points classification 1st Stages 1, 6 & 8 8th Münsterland Giro 10th Grand Prix Impanis-Van Petegem 2014 1st Volta Limburg Classic 1st Stage 2 Paris–Nice 1st Stage 4 Vuelta a Andalucía 1st Stage 1 Tour of Hainan Tour of Utah 1st Stages 1 & 3 2nd Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne 6th Münsterland Giro 2015 1st Stage 2 Tour de Yorkshire 3rd Overall Ster ZLM Toer 1st Stage 3 9th RideLondon–Surrey Classic 2016 3rd Nationale Sluitingsprijs 2017 1st Famenne Ardenne Classic 3rd Road race, UEC European Road Championships 3rd Arnhem–Veenendaal Classic 4th Tacx Pro Classic 2018 8th Great War Remembrance Race 9th Handzame Classic 2019 2nd Road race, National Road Championships
Grand Tour general classification results timeline
Grand Tour 2014 2015 2016 2017 Giro d'Italia — 136 DNF 139 Tour de France — — — — Vuelta a España DNF — — —
+ Legend — Did not compete DNF Did not finish
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