Gerben Thijssen (born 21 June 1998) is a Belgian road and

track cyclist Track cycling is a bicycle racing sport usually held on specially built banked tracks or velodromes using purpose-designed track bicycles. History Track cycling has been around since at least 1870. When track cycling was in its infancy, it wa ...

, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam .

Career

Thijssen won the bronze medal at the

2015 UCI Juniors Track World Championships The 2015 UCI Juniors Track World Championships was the annual Junior World Championship for track cycling held at the Saryarka Velodrome in Astana, Kazakhstan from 19 to 23 August 2015. Medals were won across 19 disciplines. Medal summary Medal ...

in the points race. He won the silver medal at the

2016–17 UCI Track Cycling World Cup The 2016–17 UCI Track Cycling World Cup was a multi-race series over a track cycling season. It was the 25th edition of the UCI Track Cycling World Cup organised by the UCI. The series ran from 4 November 2016 to 26 February 2017 and consisted ...

in Apeldoorn in the team pursuit. In 2016, as a junior he won 2 stages in the Nations Cup

Trofeo Karlsberg The Saarland Trofeo, formerly the Trofeo Karlsberg, is a junior multi-day cycling race held annually in Germany Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous coun ...

, the Omloop van de Vlaamse Gewesten and a Belgian Cup stage in Nederhasselt. He represented Belgium at the UCI Juniors Road World Championships in Qatar. In 2017, as a U23-rider he won the

Grote Prijs Stad Sint-Niklaas Grote Prijs Stad Sint-Niklaas is a cycling race held annually in Sint-Niklaas, Belgium since 1932. In 2016 and 2017, it was a category 1.2 event on the UCI Europe Tour The UCI Continental Circuits are a series of road bicycle racing competitions w ...

and a stage in

Olympia's Tour The Olympia's Tour is a cycling stage race held in the Netherlands. History A.S.C. Olympia was founded in Amsterdam on 27 November 1898. It ran one-day races but wanted a race through all the Netherlands. The first Olympia's Tour was in 1909, wi ...

. He won the gold medal at the 2017

UEC European Track Championships The European Track Cycling Championships are a set of elite level competition events held annually for the various disciplines and distances in track cycling, exclusively for European cyclists, and regulated by the European Cycling Union (UEC ...

in the Elite Elimination Race. In 2018, he was the Belgian champion in the U23-category. In November 2019, Thijssen crashed out of the

Six Days of Ghent The Six Days of Ghent ( nl, Zesdaagse Vlaanderen-Gent) is a six-day track cycling race held annually in Ghent, Belgium. It takes place in the Kuipke velodrome in Ghent's ''Citadelpark''. The 2006 event from 21 November to 26 November was marred ...

, suffering three small brain haemorrhages before being admitted to intensive care. In October 2020, he was named in the startlist for the

2020 Vuelta a España The 2020 Vuelta a España was the 75th edition of the Vuelta a España, one of cycling's three grand tours. It was won for the second consecutive year by Primož Roglič of . The race was originally scheduled to be held from 14 August to 6 Sept ...

. In October 2023, Thijssen and Estonian rider

Madis Mihkels Madis Mihkels (born 31 May 2003) is an Estonian racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam . In 2023, he joined as a regular rider on a two-year contract after spending the late part of the 2022 season with the team as a stagiaire. Ma ...

were pulled by their team from the Tour of Guangxi, after Mihkels made a racist gesture. Mihkels pulled his eyes into slants, in a picture Thijssen posted on his Instagram.

Major results

Road

;2016 : 1st

Omloop der Vlaamse Gewesten The Omloop der Vlaamse gewesten was a men's cycling race of which the original format was organized for the last time in 1972. The race was run in variating Flemish provinces or Brussels. The competition's roll of honor includes the successes o ...

::1st Stages 1 & 2a : 1st Stage 1 Internationale Cottbuser Junioren-Etappenfahrt ;2017 : 1st

: 1st Stage 4

: 2nd Gooikse Pijl : 3rd Paris–Tours Espoirs : 7th

Ronde van Overijssel Ronde van Overijssel ( en, Tour of Overijssel) is an elite men's road bicycle racing event held annually in Overijssel, Netherlands and sanctioned by the Royal Dutch Cycling Union. The event is UCI 1.2 rated, and is part of the UCI Europe Tou ...

: 7th Eschborn-Frankfurt City Loop U23 ;2018 : 1st MaillotBélgica

Road race, National Under-23 Championships : 5th

Paris–Troyes Paris–Troyes is an annual single-day road bicycle race in France between Paris and Troyes. First held in 1959, since 2005 it has been a 1.2 event on the UCI Europe Tour The UCI Continental Circuits are a series of road bicycle racing competiti ...

;2019 : 1st

Memorial Van Coningsloo The Memorial Van Coningsloo (also named Memorial Philippe Van Coningsloo) is a European single day cycle race held each year with the start in Wavre and finish in Rijmenam. The race was first organized in 1993 to commemorate local amateur cyclist ...

: 1st Stage 1 Paris–Arras Tour : 4th Overall

Tour d'Eure-et-Loir The Tour d'Eure-et-Loir is a stage race, multi-day road bicycle racing, road cycling race that has been held annually in the Eure-et-Loir department of France since 1949. It has been part of UCI Europe Tour in category 2.2 since 2019. Winners R ...

::1st

Young rider classification ::1st Stage 2 : 6th Road race, UEC European Under-23 Championships ;2020 : 2nd Gooikse Pijl ;2021 : 3rd Omloop van het Houtland : 5th Grand Prix de Fourmies ;2022 (3 pro wins) : 1st Gooikse Pijl : 1st Stage 2 Tour de Pologne : 1st Stage 6

Four Days of Dunkirk The Four Days of Dunkirk (french: Quatre Jours de Dunkerque) is road bicycle race around the Nord-Pas de Calais region of northern France. Despite the name of the race, since the addition of an individual time trial in 1963, the race has been h ...

: 2nd Veenendaal–Veenendaal Classic : 3rd Grote Prijs Marcel Kint : 4th

Grote Prijs Jean-Pierre Monseré The Grote Prijs Jean-Pierre Monseré is a one-day cycling race held annually in Belgium, named after Jean-Pierre Monseré. It is part of UCI Europe Tour The UCI Continental Circuits are a series of road bicycle racing competitions which were intro ...

: 5th

Bredene Koksijde Classic The Bredene Koksijde Classic, previously Handzame Classic, is a European single day cycle race held in the Belgian region of Flanders, starting in Bredene and finishing in Koksijde. Having been a part of the Driedaagse van West-Vlaanderen from 2 ...

: 7th Antwerp Port Epic : 7th Kampioenschap van Vlaanderen : 9th Omloop van het Houtland ;2023 (4) : 1st

: 1st

: 1st Ronde van Limburg : 1st Omloop van het Houtland : 2nd Grand Prix de Fourmies : 2nd

La Roue Tourangelle La Roue Tourangelle is a road bicycle race held annually in the Region Centre-Val de Loire, France. The editions 2002–2004 were reserved for amateurs; from 2005 until 2012, it was organized as a 1.2 event on the UCI Europe Tour; in 2013 it be ...

: 3rd Van Merksteijn Fences Classic : 4th Gooikse Pijl : 5th Scheldeprijs : 5th

Elfstedenronde The Elfstedenronde is a one-day road cycling race held annually in Belgium. It was held originally from 1943 until 1989, and returned in 2017 as the Bruges Cycling Classic. The race has also been called the Tour des Onze Villes and the Circuit des ...

: 8th Albert Achterhes Profronde van Drenthe

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

Track

;2015 : National Junior Championships ::1st MaillotBélgica

Madison (with Robbe Ghys) ::3rd Keirin : 2nd Silver medal europe

Madison, UEC European Junior Championships (with Robbe Ghys) : 3rd Bronze medal uci

Points race, UCI World Junior Championships ;2016 : National Junior Championships ::1st MaillotBélgica

Omnium ::1st MaillotBélgica

Points race ::2nd Elimination race ::2nd Individual pursuit ::2nd Kilo ::2nd Madison (with

Sasha Weemaes Sasha Weemaes (born 9 February 1998) is a Belgian road and track cyclist, who currently rides for UCI ProTeam . Major results ;2015 : Sint-Martinusprijs Kontich ::1st Points classification ::1st Stages 3a & 3b ;2016 : 1st Stage 1 Keizer der Jun ...

) : 1st

U23 (with

Jules Hesters Jules Hesters (born 11 November 1998) is a Belgian track and road cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Continental team . Major results Track ;2015 : National Junior Championships ::1st Madison (with Arne De Groote) ::1st Scratch ;2016 : UEC ...

) : UEC European Junior Championships ::2nd Silver medal europe

Madison (with

) ::3rd

Points race : 2nd Team pursuit,

UCI World Cup The UCI World Cups are the World Cups for cycling disciplines organized by the Union Cycliste Internationale: * UCI Road World Cup (1989–2004) * UCI Women's Road World Cup (1998–2015) * UCI Mountain Bike World Cup * UCI Track Cycling World Cup ...

, Apeldoorn ;2017 : 1st European champion jersey 2016

Elimination race Elimination races or "snap-dragon" races in bicycle racing are a form of race wherein during the course of the race, certain participants are eliminated through various criteria. The most common types of elimination races are the miss and out and ...

, UEC European Championships : 2nd Silver medal europe

Team pursuit, UEC European Under-23 Championships ;2019 : 2nd Silver medal europe

Team pursuit, UEC European Under-23 Championships : 2nd Omnium, National Championships

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Thijssen, Gerben 1998 births Living people Belgian male cyclists Belgian track cyclists Sportspeople from Genk Cyclists from Limburg (Belgium) Cyclists at the 2019 European Games European Games competitors for Belgium