Steven de Jongh (born 25 November 1973) is a Dutch former

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 ...

Biography

de Jongh made his professional debut in 1995 at TVM team where he stayed until 1999. From 2000 to 2005 he was part of , while he made the move to in 2006. De Jongh retired as a rider after the 2009 season. He was a Directeur sportif at Team Sky for three years, leaving in October 2012 after admitting he had taken illegal substances earlier in his career. In January 2013 he joined Team Saxo-Tinkoff as a sports director. After the Tinkoff team announced their disbanding at the conclusion of the 2016 season, in September 2016 confirmed that de Jongh would join them from 2017, along with Tinkoff riders Alberto Contador and Jesús Hernández.

Major results

;1992 : 3rd Dorpenomloop Rucphen ;1994 : 1st Ronde van Zuid-Holland : 1st Dokkum Woudenomloop : 1st Stage 11 Commonwealth Bank Classic : 1st Stage 2 Tour du Poitou-Charentes : 1st Stage 6 Olympia's Tour : 1st Stage 1 OZ Wielerweekend : 3rd

Ster van Zwolle The Ster van Zwolle is a single-day bicycle road race held annually in Zwolle, in the Dutch region of Overijssel. Since 2011, it is organized as a 1.2 event on the UCI Europe Tour. Winners ...

;1995 : 1st MaillotHolanda

Road race, National Under-23 Road Championships : 1st PWZ Zuidenveld Tour : 1st Grand Prix de Waregem : 1st Stage 1 Tour de Pologne : 1st Stages 1, 9 & 10

Tour of Austria The Tour of Austria () is a stage race, stage cycling race held in Austria. From 1949 to 1995 it was a race for amateur cyclists, turning into a professional event in 1996. In 2005 and 2006 it was organised as a 2.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour ...

: 2nd

Omloop der Kempen Omloop der Kempen is an elite men's and women's professional road bicycle racing event held annually in Veldhoven, Netherlands , Terminology of the Low Countries, informally Holland, is a country in Northwestern Europe, with Caribbean N ...

: 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 ...

;1996 : 4th

HEW Cyclassics The Hamburg Cyclassics (currently known as the Bemer Cyclassics for sponsorship purposes) is an annual one-day professional and amateur road bicycle race, cycling race in and around Hamburg, Germany. Although the route varies, its distance is alw ...

: 8th

Kampioenschap van Vlaanderen Kampioenschap van Vlaanderen (Championship of Flanders) or Koolskamp Koerse is a single-day road bicycle race held annually in September in Koolskamp (part-municipality of Ardooie), West Flanders, Belgium Belgium, officially the Kingdom ...

: 9th 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 ...

: 9th

Grand Prix d'Ouverture La Marseillaise Grand Prix Cycliste La Marseillaise, formerly known as the Grand Prix d'Ouverture La Marseillaise, is a single-day road bicycle race held annually in February around the city of Marseille Marseille (; ; see #Name, below) is a city in south ...

;1997 : 1st Stage 3 Vuelta a Burgos : 1st Stage 2 Tour de l'Avenir : 1st Stage 3 Boland Bank Tour : 4th Overall Tour of Sweden ;1998 : 1st Overall Tour of Sweden ::1st Stage 2 : 1st Stage 4

: 3rd Nationale Sluitingprijs ;1999 : 1st Stage 7 Tirreno–Adriatico : 1st Stage 4 Vuelta a Castilla y León : 1st Stage 2 Giro della Provincia di Lucca : 2nd Nationale Sluitingprijs : 3rd Overall Guldensporentweedaagse : 3rd

: 7th Delta Profronde : 8th Grand Prix d'Isbergues ;2000 : 1st Henk Vos Memorial : 1st

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 ...

: 1st Schaal Sels : 1st Veenendaal–Veenendaal : 4th Trofeo Cala Millor-Cala Bona : 7th

;2001 : 1st Veenendaal–Veenendaal : 3rd Overall Guldensporentweedaagse ;2002 : 1st Schaal Sels : 1st Rund um den Flughafen Köln-Bonn : 1st Stages 1b & 2 Tour of Sweden : 1st Stage 2 Ronde van Nederland : 2nd Ronde van Midden-Zeeland : 3rd Nokere-Koerse : 4th Road race, National Road Championships : 6th Tour Beneden-Maas : 6th Trofeo Cala Millor-Cala Bona : 8th Henk Vos Memorial ;2003 : 1st Schaal Sels : 1st

E3 Prijs Vlaanderen E3 Saxo Bank Classic, previously known as E3 BinckBank Classic, E3 Harelbeke, Harelbeke–Antwerp–Harelbeke and E3-Prijs Vlaanderen, is an annual road cycling race in Flanders, Belgium. The race starts and finishes in Harelbeke, covering 203 ki ...

: 1st Stage 3a Three Days of De Panne : 8th GP Rudy Dhaenens ;2004 : 1st Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne : 2nd Overall Circuit Franco-Belge : 2nd Nationale Sluitingprijs : 4th

: 4th Giro del Piemonte : 10th Ronde van Midden-Zeeland ;2005 : 1st Nokere Koerse : 2nd Road race, National Road Championships : 2nd Giro del Piemonte : 2nd Noord-Nederland Tour : 2nd Tour de Rijke : 3rd Omloop Het Volk : 3rd Trofeo Manacor : 4th GP Stad Zottegem : 7th Veenendaal–Veenendaal : 10th Overall Ster Elektrotoer ;2006 : 1st Ronde van Midden-Zeeland : 2nd Scheldeprijs : 2nd

: 3rd Paris–Brussels : 4th Veenendaal–Veenendaal : 6th Overall Three Days of De Panne ::1st Stage 3 : 7th Overall Tour of Qatar : 8th Tour de Rijke : 9th Overall Tour of Belgium : 10th Giro della Provincia di Lucca ;2007 : 1st GP Briek Schotte : 1st Omloop van het Houtland : 1st Omloop Wase Scheldeboorden : 3rd Overall Tour of Qatar ::1st Stage 1 : 3rd Memorial Rik Van Steenbergen : 4th Paris–Tours : 5th GP Ouest–France : 5th Paris–Brussels : 9th Tour de Rijke : 10th Omloop Het Volk ;2008 : 1st Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne : 1st Tour de Rijke : 2nd Overall Tour of Qatar ::1st Stage 1 ( TTT) : 2nd Dwars door Vlaanderen : 3rd Road race, National Road Championships : 10th Memorial Rik Van Steenbergen ;2009 : 1st

: 3rd Memorial Rik Van Steenbergen : 3rd Dutch Food Valley Classic : 5th Overall Circuit Franco-Belge : 9th Tour de Rijke

References

External links

Official site
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