Preben Van Hecke (born 9 July 1982) is a Belgian former professional

road bicycle racer Road bicycle racing is the cycle sport discipline of road cycling, held primarily on paved roads. Road racing is the most popular professional form of bicycle racing, in terms of numbers of competitors, events and spectators. The two most com ...

, who competed professionally between 2004 and 2019 for the , and . He won the

Belgian National Road Race Championships The Belgian National Road Race Championship is a cycling race which decides who will become Belgian national champion for the year to come. The men's record for most wins is currently held by one of the most successful Belgian sprinters, Tom Stee ...

in 2015, out of a two-man breakaway with

Jürgen Roelandts Jürgen Roelandts (born 2 July 1985) is a Belgium, Belgian former professional road bicycle racer, who rode professionally between 2008 and 2020, for the , and squads. He now works as a directeur sportif for his final professional team, . Care ...

. He now works as a

directeur sportif A ''directeur sportif'' (, ) is a person directing a cycling team during a road bicycle racing event. It is seen as the equivalent to a field manager in baseball, or a head coach in football. At professional level, a directeur sportif follows t ...

for

UCI WorldTeam A UCI WorldTeam (2015–present), previously UCI ProTeam (2005–2014), is the term used by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) to name a cycling team of the highest category in professional road bicycle racing, road cycling, the UCI World Tou ...

Major results

Source: ;2002 : 6th

Boucle de l'Artois The Boucle de l'Artois is a road bicycle race held annually in France. It was organized as a 2.2 event on the UCI Europe Tour The UCI Continental Circuits are a series of road bicycle racing competitions which were introduced in 2005 by the Union ...

: 7th Flèche Ardennaise ;2003 : 1st Omloop Het Volk U23 : 1st Circuit du Hainaut : 1st Stage 6 Tour de Normandie : 6th Zellik–Galmaarden : 9th Flèche Ardennaise ;2004 : 1st Noord Nederland Tour : Ster Elektrotoer ::1st Mountains classification ::1st Stage 2 : 7th Overall Tour de la Région Wallonne ;2005 : 8th Overall

Tour de l'Ain Tour de l'Ain, also known as the Prix de l'Amitié, is an annual professional cycling stage race held in eastern France. G.P. de l'Amitié The first edition of the race was in 1970, as the G.P. de l'Amitié (Friendship G.P.). It was held over f ...

;2006 : 1st Schaal Sels : 2nd Overall

Étoile de Bessèges The Étoile de Bessèges () is an early-season five-day road bicycle racing stage race held annually around Bessèges, in the Gard department of the Languedoc-Roussillon region of France. First organized in 1971 as a one-day race, it became a ...

: 6th

Nationale Sluitingsprijs Nationale Sluitingprijs is a classic cycle races, semi classic European Road bicycle racing, bicycle race held annually in Putte (Kapellen), Belgium. From 2005 to 2017, the race was organized as a UCI race classifications, 1.1 event on the UCI Eur ...

: 9th

Grand Prix Pino Cerami Grand Prix Pino Cerami is a single-day road bicycle race held annually in April in Hainaut, Belgium. From 2005 to 2019, the race was organized as a 1.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour, before being cancelled from 2019 to 2022. Upon its return in 2 ...

;2007 : 3rd Overall

: 4th Hel van het Mergelland ;2008 : 2nd

Grote Prijs Stad Zottegem Egmont Cycling Race is a single-day road bicycle race held annually in August in Zottegem, Belgium. Since 2005, the race is organized as a 1.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour. The race started out as 'Dokter Tistaertprijs' in 1934. Between 1971 ...

: 10th

Grand Prix of Aargau Canton Grand Prix of Aargau Canton () is a semi classic European bicycle race held in Aargau canton, one of the more northerly cantons of Switzerland. The race consists of fifteen laps around the Swiss town of Gippingen, which belongs to the municipa ...

: 10th Schaal Sels ;2010 : 3rd

Druivenkoers Overijse Druivenkoers Overijse is a single-day road bicycle race held annually in August in Overijse, Belgium. Since 2005, the race is organized as a 1.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour The UCI Continental Circuits are a series of road bicycle racing compet ...

: 9th Hel van het Mergelland ;2012 : 1st Omloop van het Waasland : 1st Mountains classification,

Tour of Slovenia Tour of Slovenia (Dirka po Sloveniji) is a five day road bicycle racing, road cycling stage race held since 1993. Between 2005 and 2018, it was organised as a 2.1 race on the UCI Europe Tour. The 2019 edition was classified as a 2.HC race. It b ...

;2013 : 1st Antwerpse Havenpijl : 1st Grand Prix de la Somme ;2015 : 1st Road race, National Road Championships : 3rd Dwars door de Vlaamse Ardennen ;2016 : 7th Overall

Arctic Race of Norway The Arctic Race of Norway is an annual multiple stage bicycle race held in northern Norway. The first edition was in 2013, from 8 August to 11 August, and lasted for four days. The organising partners are Amaury Sport Organisation (ASO) and Arct ...

;2017 : 1st Jersey orange

Mountains classification, Tour of Norway : 7th

: 8th

Dorpenomloop Rucphen Dorpenomloop Rucphen is a men's one-day cycle racing, cycle race which takes place in the Netherlands and was rated by the Union Cycliste Internationale, UCI as 1.2. It forms part of the UCI Europe Tour. Winners Ref ...

;2018 : 1st Jersey white dots on red

Mountains classification,

Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana The Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana (; or Tour of Valencia) is a road cycling stage race held in the Valencian Community (''Comunitat Valenciana''), Spain. Its position in the cycling calendar means it is often used as preparation for the sprin ...

: 3rd

Ronde van Drenthe Ronde van Drenthe () was an elite men's and women's professional road bicycle racing Road bicycle racing is the cycle sport discipline of road cycling, held primarily on Road surface, paved roads. Road racing is the most popular professiona ...

: 3rd Great War Remembrance Race

References

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* * * 1982 births Living people Sportspeople from Dendermonde Belgian male cyclists Cyclists from East Flanders Directeur sportifs 21st-century Belgian sportsmen {{Belgium-cycling-bio-1980s-stub