|
2020 Omloop Het Nieuwsblad
The 2020 Omloop Het Nieuwsblad was a road bicycle racing, road cycling one-day race that took place on 29 February 2020 in Belgium, starting in Ghent, Gent and finishing in Ninove. It was the 75th edition of the Omloop Het Nieuwsblad and the fourth event of the 2020 UCI World Tour. Belgian rider Jasper Stuyven of beat fellow Belgian rider Yves Lampaert of in a two-up sprint to take the victory. Danish rider Søren Kragh Andersen of , who had been dropped by the Belgian duo within the last three kilometers, finished solo to take third place. Teams Twenty-five teams were invited to the race, which included all nineteen UCI WorldTour teams and six UCI Professional Continental teams. Each team started with seven riders for a total of 175 riders; of these, only 69 riders finished. UCI WorldTeams * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * UCI Professional Continental Teams * * * * * * Pre-race favourites Mathieu van der Poel was the favourite to win, but w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2020 UCI World Tour
The 2020 UCI World Tour was a series of races that was scheduled to include thirty-six road cycling events throughout the 2020 cycling season. However, some of races were cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The tour started with the opening stage of the Tour Down Under on 21 January, and concluded with the final stage of the Vuelta a España on 8 November. Events The 2020 calendar was initially announced in June 2019. In October 2019, the calendar was officially presented by the UCI. There were two races fewer in the original schedule than in the 2019 UCI World Tour: *The Presidential Cycling Tour of Turkey was downgraded to the UCI ProSeries for 2020 due to lack of participation of UCI World Tour teams in 2018 and 2019. *The Tour of California was not held in 2020 after being placed on hiatus. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic that commenced in the spring, numerous races were postponed, including all three Grand Tours and four of the five annual 'monuments'. As a result, race ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
UCI Professional Continental
The UCI Continental Circuits are a series of road bicycle racing competitions which were introduced in 2005 by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) to expand cycling around the world. The five circuits (representing the continents of Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe and Oceania) are ranked below the UCI World Tour and, as of 2020, the UCI ProSeries The UCI ProSeries is the second tier men's elite road cycling tour. It was inaugurated in 2020. The series is placed below the UCI World Tour, but above the various regional UCI Continental Circuits. Development In December 2018, the UCI ann .... UCI Africa Tour Winners There is a rolling ranking for individuals and countries (the total of the top 8 ranked riders of the nation), for which points can be won in all UCI road events, regardless of where the races take place. Prior to 2019 there was also a team ranking, and in all three categories points were earned in continental races of category HC or below (1.1 and 2.1 or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Omloop Het Nieuwsblad – Men's Race
Omloop is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Geert Omloop (born 1974), Belgian road racing cyclist * Laura Omloop (born 1999), Belgian pop singer * Wim Omloop Wim Omloop (born 5 October 1971) is a Belgian former cyclist. He competed in the individual road race at the 1992 Summer Olympics The 1992 Summer Olympics ( es, Juegos Olímpicos de Verano de 1992, ca, Jocs Olímpics d'estiu de 1992), of ... (born 1971), Belgian cyclist See also * {{surname Surnames of Belgian origin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Florian Sénéchal
Florian Sénéchal (born 10 July 1993) is a French racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam . Career He rode at the 2013 UCI Road World Championships, and was named in the start list for the 2015 Tour de France and the 2016 Vuelta a España. In May 2018, he was named in the startlist for the 2018 Giro d'Italia. Sénéchal won his first professional race at Le Samyn on 5 March 2019. He was named in the startlist of the 2021 Vuelta a España, primarily as a lead-out man for Fabio Jakobsen. On stage 13, after Jakobsen was dropped in the final kilometres, Sénéchal held off Matteo Trentin in the final sprint to win his first Grand Tour stage. Major results ;2011 : 1st Paris–Roubaix Juniors : 4th Road race, UCI Junior Road World Championships : 6th Overall Trofeo Karlsberg ;2012 : 9th Paris–Roubaix Espoirs : 10th Overall Tour de Bretagne ;2013 : 1st Overall Okolo Jižních Čech ::1st Points classification ::1st Stage 2 : 1st Memoriał Henryka Łasaka : 2nd De ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stefan Küng
Stefan Küng (born 16 November 1993) is a Swiss cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam . He is also a citizen of Liechtenstein. Career Küng won the 2015 UCI Track Cycling World Championships – Men's individual pursuit, individual pursuit at the 2015 UCI Track Cycling World Championships, after beating Jack Bobridge in the final. Küng only took the lead in the final . In the 2015 Tour de Romandie, he grabbed the biggest victory of his career at that point in solo fashion. On a cold rainy day, he was part of the early breakaway and dropped his fellow escapees some before the line, resisting to their return while riding toward victory in Fribourg. In June 2017, he was named in the startlist for the 2017 Tour de France. Major results Road ;2010 : 7th Overall Tour du Pays de Vaud ;2011 : National Junior Road Championships ::1st Swiss National Time Trial Championships, Time trial ::3rd Swiss National Road Race Championships, Road race : 1st Tour de Berne juniors : Cyclin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philippe Gilbert
Philippe Gilbert (born 5 July 1982) is a Belgian former professional road bicycle racer, who is best known for winning the World Road Race Championships in 2012, and for being one of two riders, along with Davide Rebellin, to have won the three Ardennes classics – the Amstel Gold Race, La Flèche Wallonne and Liège–Bastogne–Liège – in a single season, which he accomplished in 2011. Gilbert also finished the 2011 season as the overall winner of the UCI World Tour. A Classics specialist, Gilbert has won several classic cycle races, including Paris–Tours twice (2008, 2009), the Giro di Lombardia twice ( 2009, 2010), the Amstel Gold Race four times ( 2010, 2011, 2014, 2017), La Flèche Wallonne ( 2011), Liège–Bastogne–Liège ( 2011), the Clásica de San Sebastián ( 2011), the Tour of Flanders ( 2017), and Paris–Roubaix ( 2019). He is the second person (and first Belgian) in history to win all three Ardennes classics in a single year. In 2017, Gi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oliver Naesen
Oliver Naesen (; born 16 September 1990) is a Belgian professional racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam . Considered a specialist of the one-day classics, he won the 2017 Belgian National Road Race Championships, as well as the Bretagne Classic in 2016 and 2018. He is the brother of fellow racing cyclist Lawrence Naesen. Career 2014–2016 Naesen turned professional in August 2014 as a stagiaire with the team, before joining in 2015 and Swiss UCI WorldTeam in 2016. He made his Grand Tour debut at the 2016 Tour de France, in which he was awarded the combativity award on the fourth stage. He made a spectacular crash in the last corner of the stage 18 mountain time trial, but finished his maiden Tour in 83rd position overall. Weeks after the Tour de France, he won the Bretagne Classic; his first victory in a UCI World Tour race. In September, he finished second in the general classification of the 2016 Eneco Tour after a strong performance in the final stag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike Teunissen
Mike Teunissen (born 25 August 1992) is a Dutch racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam . Career He rode at the 2013 UCI Road World Championships, and was the winner of the World Under-23 Cyclo-cross Championships in 2013. He was named in the start list for the 2015 Vuelta a España. In June 2017, he was named in the startlist for the 2017 Tour de France. In 2019, he had a top 10 finish in Paris-Roubaix. He was named to the start list of the 2019 Tour de France, where he was intended to be a leadout man for Dylan Groenewegen. Late in stage one as the sprint trains were coming together there was a crash, which eliminated Groenewegen's chances and ruined the team's plans of getting the stage win and yellow jersey. Teunissen seized the moment, knowing he was already in a good position, and went for the stage win anyways. He just barely edged all-time great Peter Sagan on the line, winning the Yellow Jersey in the process. The following day he was part of another sta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tim Declercq
Tim Declercq (born 21 March 1989 in Leuven) is a Belgian cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam . His brother Benjamin is also a professional cyclist. Declerq is known to be a powerful rider who generally acts as a domestique. He earned the nickname "El Tractor" due to his frequent work riding at the front of the peloton. A 2020 poll of riders in the professional peloton by cyclingnews.com named Declercq as the best domestique in the world. Major results ;2007 : 1st Stage 1 Münsterland Giro ;2011 : 1st Road race, National Under-23 Road Championships : Ronde van Namen ::1st Stages 2 & 5 ;2012 : 1st Internationale Wielertrofee Jong Maar Moedig : 6th Coppa Bernocchi : 10th Ronde van Zeeland Seaports ;2013 : 1st Internationale Wielertrofee Jong Maar Moedig : 4th Overall Le Triptyque des Monts et Châteaux : 7th Tour du Finistère : 9th Schaal Sels-Merksem ;2016 : 7th Dwars door het Hageland : 7th Schaal Sels-Merksem : 8th Le Samyn ;2017 : 3rd Gullegem Koerse ;2019 : 1st M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matteo Trentin
Matteo Trentin (born 2 August 1989) is an Italian professional road cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam . Career Professional career In 2014, Trentin took a prestigious victory on Stage 7 of the Tour de France, where he won the sprint by a few centimeters over Peter Sagan. Trentin had also won a stage of the same race on his maiden Tour start in 2013, winning in a sprint in Lyon against his breakaway counterparts. In October 2015, Trentin won Paris–Tours in record time for a race over 200 km, thus becoming the new ''Ruban Jaune''. By winning the fourth stage in the 2017 Vuelta a España, he completed the set of at least one stage win in each of the Grand Tours. He won three more stages and he was also in contention for the points jersey. But as Chris Froome was also sprinting unexpectedly, by managing to collect 5 points he was able to keep his leading position in the points competition too, and took the overall win from Trentin by only 2 points. Trentin became ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zdeněk Štybar
Zdeněk Štybar (; born 11 December 1985) is a Czech professional cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam . While best known as a cyclo-cross racer, in 2011 Štybar began his professional road career while continuing to race cyclo-cross. Career Early life and cyclo-cross career Štybar was born in Planá u Mariánských Lázní. Following consecutive second places in 2008 and 2009, Štybar won the 2010 UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships in his home nation. In 2011, he won the World championships for a second time. Quick-Step (2011–2022) In March 2011, Stybar joined the UCI World Tour team to combine his cyclo-cross career with a career in road cycling. In 2012 he pulled off a victory on the road by winning a stage in the Four Days of Dunkirk. In 2013, Štybar came in sixth in Paris–Roubaix. He was in contention for the victory as he was part of the leading trio with Sep Vanmarcke and Fabian Cancellara when he hit a spectator, causing him to slow down to clip in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greg Van Avermaet
Greg Van Avermaet (born 17 May 1985) is a Belgian professional cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam . Considered one of the most versatile riders of modern cycling, Van Avermaet is a specialist of the classic cycle races, but has also won stages and the general classification in stage races, particularly when run on a hilly terrain, such as the 2016 Tirreno–Adriatico, and the 2018 Tour de Yorkshire. His strong sprint finish enables him to win sprints of small lead groups, but he has also won races after solo breakaways. He won the men's individual road race event at the 2016 Summer Olympics, and has won other one-day races such as Paris–Roubaix, Gent–Wevelgem and E3 Harelbeke in 2017, the 2016 GP de Montréal and Omloop Het Nieuwsblad in 2016 and 2017. In the Grand Tours, Van Avermaet has taken two individual stage wins in the Tour de France, and worn the Yellow Jersey for eleven days during the 2016 and 2018 Tours and won the points classification in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
.jpg "Click for more on -> Oliver Naesen")
