Sam Bennett wins the 4 Jours de Dunkerque
Sam Bennett "I'd like to thank the team again" "It's quite nice after a few difficult years. I'd like to thank the team again for their fantastic work. Let's focus...
Dries De Bondt
Questions and answers
- Your nickname: Bondteke
- A phrase that characterizes you: "drive the nail in".
- Your favorite race: Paris-Roubaix
- Your best cycling memory: winning stage 18 of the Giro d'Italia 2022
- Your worst memory on the bike: losing my friend and teammate Michael Goolaerts on the cobbles of Paris-Roubaix in 2018.
- The club where you started out: WK Noord-West Brabant
- Your interests outside cycling: poker and billiards
- Your favourite style of music and singer/group: dance and house music
- If you were a movie: Sold out
- If you were a dish: lasagne
- If you were a celebrity: I'd have to win more races to do that.
- If you had to do another job, what would it be? Professional poker player
- What's dearest to you: my family and friends
- Your qualities: perseverance, determination and confidence
- Your faults: a little too impulsive and too "direct". Easily distracted but the fact is I don't really have any faults lol
Major results
2024 (DECATHLON AG2R LA MONDIALE TEAM)
- 3rd of a stage of the Etoile de Bessèges
2023 (Alpecin-Deceuninck)
- Winner of Antwerp Port Epic
- Winner of the Gree-Tour of Guangxi points classification
- 8th Druivenkoers - Overijse
2022 (Alpecin-Fenix)
- Winner of a stage at the Giro d'Italia
- 2nd of the G.P. of Denain - Porte du Hainaut
- 2nd from G.P. Jean-Pierre Monseré
- 3rd Samyn
- 6th overall on the Baloise Belgium Tour / 5th on a stage
- 8th Volta Limburg Classic
- 9th in the Primus Classic
- 9th in Egmont Cycling Race
2021 (Alpecin-Fenix)
- 4th and 6th stage wins at the Giro d'Italia / Winner of the super combative classification and intermediate sprints
- 9th Antwerp Port Epic - Sels Trophy
- 11th in the Eurométropole Tour
- 13th in the Flèche Brabançonne
2020 (Alpecin-Fenix)
- Belgian champion of the online race
- Winner of a stage of the Etoile de Bessèges
- Winner of the Volta ao Algarve best climber classification
- 2e de Druivenkoers - Overijse
2019 (Corendon - Circus)
- Winner of the Rik Van Steenbergen Memorial
- Winner of Halle Ingooigem
- 2nd Omloop van het Houtland
- 2nd in the best climber classification of the OVO Energy Tour of Britain
- 2nd in the best climber classification of the Tour de La Provence
- 3rd overall in the Tour de Wallonie / 3rd and 5th in stages
- 4th from Slag om Norg
- 4th de Heylen Vastgoed Heistse Pijl
2018 (Vérandas Willems - Crelan)
- 2nd de Ronde van Zeeland
- 2nd in the Ronde van Drenthe
- 3rd from G.P. Marcel Kint
2017 (Vérandas Willems - Crelan)
- 7th G.P. Jean-Pierre Monseré
2016 (Verandas Willems Cycling Team)
- Winner of Halle Ingooigem
