Johan Jacobs (born 1 March 1997) is a Swiss road and cyclo-cross cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam . He competed in the men's under-23 event at the

2016 UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships The 2016 UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships was the World Championship for cyclo-cross for the season 2015–16. It was held in Heusden-Zolder in Belgium on Saturday 30th and Sunday 31 January 2016. The championships featured five events, in add ...

Career

Jacobs early career started in cyclo-cross, winning multiple national titles and world cup races. In 2015 Jacobs won the eighth race in the Superprestige at Middelkerke series. This stopped

Eli Iserbyt Eli Iserbyt (born 22 October 1997) is a Belgian cyclo-cross and road cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Continental team . As a junior, he won the silver medal at the 2015 UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships. He won the gold medal in the men' ...

from winning every race in the series. At the Junior

Koppenbergcross The Cyclo-cross Koppenberg is a cyclo-cross race held in Oudenaarde, Belgium, which is part of the X²O Badkamers Trophy. The cyclo-cross race uses the Koppenberg climb that has been used many times in the Belgian Classic the Tour of Flanders. T ...

Jacobs attacked from the start and held off everyone for the entire race forcing Iserbyt and Thijs Wolsink to work together. Jacobs elected not to ride cyclo-cross race in his final year as an Under-23 instead wanting to focus on road cycling, this put him into the spotlight for a contract with . He was the only rider able to follow the winning move by

Tom Pidcock Thomas Pidcock (born 30 July 1999) is a British cyclist who currently competes in the cyclo-cross, mountain bike and road bicycle racing disciplines of the sport for UCI WorldTeam . After a prodigious junior and under-23 career with World Cha ...

in the Paris–Roubaix Espoirs which earned him a second place. These efforts caught the eye of 's manager

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and led to getting a two-year contract with the UCI WorldTour team in 2020. While riding the

2021 Vuelta a España The 2021 Vuelta a España was a three-week cycling race which took place in Spain between 14 August and 5 September 2021. It was the 76th edition of the Vuelta a España and the third and final grand tour of the 2021 men's road cycling season. T ...

Jacobs crashed during stage 9. He went through a guardrail resulting in a broken shoulder, rib and a collapsed lung. He did not race again in the 2021 season. extended Jacobs contract by one year till the end of 2024. Jacobs elected to not race cyclo-cross over the 2023 winter so that he would have more time to prepare for the 2024 road season.

Major results

Sources:

Cyclo-cross

;2013–2014 : 1st National Junior Championships : 2nd Overall Junior Superprestige ::1st Middelkerke ::2nd

Hoogstraten Hoogstraten () is a municipality located in the Belgian province of Antwerp. The municipality comprises Hoogstraten, Meer, Meerle, Meersel-Dreef, Minderhout and Wortel (Meersel-Dreef includes the northernmost point in Belgium). Hoogstraten (o ...

;2014–2015 : 1st National Junior Championships : Junior BPost Bank Trophy ::1st

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GP Sven Nys The Grand Prix Sven Nys or GP Sven Nys is a cyclo-cross race held in Baal, Belgium. The race is named after cyclo-cross legend Sven Nys who is a citizen of Baal. Nys won his "own" race 12 out of 16 times he competed. He was sick at home for the 1 ...

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: 2nd Overall

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::3rd Valkenburg : 2nd Overall Junior Superprestige ::1st Middelkerke ::2nd Zonhoven ::2nd

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Gieten Gieten is a village in the Dutch province of Drenthe. It is a part of the municipality of Aa en Hunze, and lies about 14 km east of Assen. History The village was first mentioned in 1223 as Geten. The etymology is unclear. Gieten is an ''e ...

::3rd Diegem : 3rd Bronze medal europe

UEC European Junior Championships ;2015–2016 : 3rd National Under-23 Championships ;2016–2017 : 1st National Under-23 Championships ;2017–2018 : 2nd National Under-23 Championships : National Trophy Series ::3rd Ipswich

Road

;2019 : 1st Stage 2 ( TTT) Tour de l'Avenir : 2nd Paris–Roubaix Espoirs : 7th Ronde van Vlaanderen Beloften : 8th Sundvolden GP ;2020 : 4th Road race, National Championships ;2021 : 3rd Road race, National Championships

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

References

External links

* 1997 births Living people Swiss cyclo-cross cyclists Swiss male cyclists Cyclists from Zürich {{Switzerland-cycling-bio-stub