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In brief

rider of classics
Born on 04.07.1991 in Bornem (Belgium)
Height: 1m84 / Weight: 73kg
Professional since 2017
With the DECATHLON AG2R LA MONDIALE team since 2024
Number of pro wins: 7

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

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