Sofie De Vuyst (born 2 April 1987) is a Belgian former

racing cyclist Cycle sport is competitive physical activity using bicycles. There are several categories of bicycle racing including road bicycle racing, cyclo-cross, mountain bike racing, track cycling, BMX, and cycle speedway. Non-racing cycling spo ...

, who rode professionally between 2006 and 2019. Between 2010 and 2016 she competed in every

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. She was voted 2019 Flandrienne of the Year (best Belgian female cyclist). In September 2019, De Vuyst tested positive for an exogenous steroid in an out of competition control. De Vuyst's positive test came on 18 September, in the week after the

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, where she finished seventh overall and won the mountains classification, and before the

. A contract that she had signed for 2020 with was suspended as a result of her positive test.

Major results

;2009 : 3rd Dwars door de Westhoek ;2011 : 2nd Road race, National Road Championships : 4th Erondegemse Pijl : 5th

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: 6th Halle-Buizingen : 6th Dwars door de Westhoek : 8th Overall

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;2012 : 2nd

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, National Road Championships : 2nd Overall Tour de Bretagne Féminin : 8th Overall

: 8th Erondegemse Pijl ;2013 : 2nd Erondegemse Pijl : 3rd Road race, National Road Championships : 7th Overall

::1st

Mountains classification ::1st Jersey black

Belgian rider classification : 8th Overall Tour de Bretagne Féminin : 8th

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: 9th

Le Samyn des Dames Le Samyn is an annual single-day road bicycle race in Belgium, held usually in late February or early March. The event was created in 1968 as ''Grand Prix de Fayt-le-Franc'', named after the former municipality where it started and finished. In 1 ...

: 9th Knokke-Heist – Bredene ;2014 : 3rd Road race, National Road Championships : 3rd

: 4th

Gent–Wevelgem Gent–Wevelgem, officially Gent–Wevelgem – In Flanders Fields, is a road bicycle racing, road cycling race in Belgium, held annually since 1934. It is one of the classic cycle races, classic races part of the Flemish Cycling Week, run in late ...

: 5th

: 6th

Omloop Het Nieuwsblad , previously Omloop Het Volk, is a one-day road cycling race in Belgium, held annually in late February. It is the opening event of the Belgian cycling season, as well as the first race of the year in Northwestern Europe, and holds significant pre ...

: 7th Diamond Tour : 8th Erondegemse Pijl : 9th Overall Internationale Thüringen Rundfahrt der Frauen : 9th Overall

: 9th Trofee Maarten Wynants : 9th Holland Hills Classic ;2015 : National Road Championships ::3rd Road race ::3rd

: 4th Trofee Maarten Wynants : 7th Overall Auensteiner–Radsporttage : 8th Overall

: 9th

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: 10th

Dwars door Vlaanderen ''Dwars door Vlaanderen'' ('Across Flanders') is a semi-classic road bicycle race in Belgium, held annually since 1945. The race starts in Roeselare and finishes in Waregem, both in West Flanders. Since 2017 the event is included in the UCI Wor ...

;2016 : 5th Overall

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: 9th Pajot Hills Classic ;2018 : 3rd Overall

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::1st Stage 5 : 3rd Kreiz Breizh Elites Dames : 4th

: 8th Overall

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: 10th Brabantse Pijl Dames Gooik : 10th La Classique Morbihan : 10th Grand Prix de Plumelec-Morbihan Dames ;2019 : 1st Brabantse Pijl Dames Gooik : 1st Jersey red

Mountains classification Grand Prix Elsy Jacobs : 2nd La Classique Morbihan : 3rd Erondegemse Pijl : 6th Dwars door Vlaanderen for Women : 6th Grand Prix de Plumelec-Morbihan Dames : 7th Overall

::1st

Mountains classification : 7th

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: 8th

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:De Vuyst, Sofie 1987 births Living people Belgian female cyclists Sportspeople from Zottegem Cyclists at the 2015 European Games European Games competitors for Belgium Cyclists from East Flanders 21st-century Belgian sportswomen

Major results

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