Simon Dehairs (born 2 June 2001) is a Belgian cyclist, who currently rides for

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. A sprinter, Dehairs is the 2023 Belgian Under-23 Road Race Champion, and has won stages of several Continental level races, including the

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and

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Biography

In his youth, Dehairs played football for a club in

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. He eventually turned to cycling from 2016 in the beginners category (under 17 years old), following in the footsteps of his father Koen, who was an amateur cyclist. In 2019, he finished second in the

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for juniors (under 19). In the same year, he was selected for the national team for the European Junior Road Championships, where he finished 38th in the road race. He then joined the Flemish club GM Recycling in 2020, while studying sports science at the

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. A strong sprinter, he quickly distinguished himself by taking third place in the

for under-23s. In 2021, he was recruited mid-season by the development team of the professional team Alpecin-Fenix, with whom he signed a two-and-a-half-year contract. In 2022, he won a stage of the

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. He also won a stage of the Ronde van Vlaams-Brabant.

Major results

;2019 : 2nd Road race, National Junior Road Championships : 9th E3 BinckBank Classic Junioren ;2020 : 3rd Road race, National Under-23 Road Championships ;2022 :

::1st Points classification ::1st Stage 1b : 1st Stage 2 ;2023 : 1st Road race, National Under-23 Road Championships : 1st : 7th

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: 8th

Grand Prix d'Isbergues Grand Prix d'Isbergues is a professional cycle road race held in Isbergues, Pas-de-Calais The Pas-de-Calais (, ' strait of Calais'; ; ) is a department in northern France named after the French designation of the Strait of Dover, which ...

;2024 : 1st Grote Prijs Rik Van Looy : 1st GP Vermarc :

::1st Points classification ::1st Stages 2 & 4 : 1st Stage 3

: 2nd Veenendaal–Veenendaal : 2nd

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: 4th

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: 7th Ronde van Limburg : 7th

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: 8th Elfstedenrace : 9th

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;2025 (1 pro win) : 1st Stage 1

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: 2nd Ronde van Limburg

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Dehairs, Simon 2001 births Living people Belgian male cyclists Sportspeople from Tienen Cyclists from Flanders 21st-century Belgian sportsmen