Gijs Van Hoecke (born 12 November 1991) is a Belgian cyclist, who currently rides for

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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

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, 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

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. In 2014, Van Hoecke won the

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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

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for his training partner,

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. 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

Track

;2008 : 2nd Silver medal blank

Madison,

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: National Junior Track Championships ::2nd Omnium ::2nd Team pursuit ::2nd Kilo ::2nd Individual pursuit ;2009 : 1st Omnium, National Junior Track Championships : 2nd Silver medal blank

Madison, UCI Juniors Track World Championships (with Jochen Deweer) ;2010 : 2nd Silver medal europe

Omnium, UEC European Under-23 Track Championships : 2nd Silver medal blank

Scratch, 2010–11 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics, Cali ;2011 : 1st Gold medal blank

Scratch,

2011–12 UCI Track Cycling World Cup The 2011–12 UCI Track Cycling World Cup (also known as the 2011–2012 UCI Track Cycling World Cup, presented by Samsung for sponsorship reasons) was a multi-race tournament over a season of track cycling. The season ran from 4 November 2011 to ...

, Astana : 3rd Bronze medal blank

Omnium An omnium (from Latin ''omnium'': of all, belonging to all) is a multiple race event in track cycling. Historically the omnium has had a variety of formats. In recent years, road racing has also adopted the term to describe multi-day races that f ...

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;2012 : 1st Jersey rainbow

Madison,

(with Kenny De Ketele) : UEC European Under-23 Track Championships ::2nd Silver medal europe

Madison (with

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) ::3rd

Team pursuit : 2nd

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(with Kenny De Ketele) : 3rd Bronze medal blank

Team pursuit,

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, Glasgow ;2013 : 1st

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(with Kenny De Ketele) : 3rd Bronze medal europe

Madison,

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(with Kenny De Ketele) : 3rd

(with Kenny De Ketele) ;2015 : 2nd

(with Kenny De Ketele) : 3rd

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(with Iljo Keisse)

Road

Source: ;2009 : 1st Jersey yellow

Overall Giro della Toscana Juniors : 5th Overall Münsterland Tour ;2011 : 1st Jersey yellow

Overall Ronde van de Provincie Antwerpen : 2nd

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;2012 : 3rd Ronde van Zeeland Seaports ;2013 : 2nd

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;2014 : 1st

;2015 : 1st Jersey green

Combativity classification Eneco Tour : 8th

: 10th Overall

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: 10th Ronde van Limburg ;2016 : 6th Overall

Danmark Rundt Danmark Rundt is a Danish multi-day professional road cycling race. It is currently sponsored by the Danish national postal agency, PostNord, and the race is therefore also known as PostNord Danmark Rundt. The race is sometimes called the Tou ...

: 8th Overall

;2019 : 6th Overall

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;2021 : 9th

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Grand Tour general classification results timeline

References

External links

* * * * * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Van Hoecke, Gijs 1991 births Living people Belgian male cyclists Olympic cyclists for Belgium Cyclists at the 2012 Summer Olympics Cyclists from Ghent UCI Track Cycling World Champions (men) Belgian track cyclists 21st-century Belgian sportsmen