Maarten Wynants (born 13 May 1982) is a Belgian former professional

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, who rode professionally between 2005 and 2021 for the , and teams. He now works as a directeur sportif for his final professional team, UCI WorldTeam .

Career

Born in

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, Wynants was awarded the Combativity award, given to a rider judged to have showed exceptional attacking spirit during the race, following Stage 1 of the

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on 4 July. Attacking in the first kilometre, he continued to lead from the front until both he and Alexandr Pliushin of were caught by the peloton just from the end of the stage. In June 2020, Wynants announced that he would retire from cycling in April 2021, after that year's Paris–Roubaix. Following the postponement of Paris–Roubaix to October due to the

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, Wynants' final race occurred at the Tour of Flanders.

Major results

;2004 : 1st MaillotBélgica

Road race, National Under-23 Road Championships : 10th Grand Prix de Waregem ;2005 : 3rd Hel van het Mergelland ;2006 : 1st Grote Prijs Beeckman-De Caluwé : 7th Overall Ster Elektrotoer ;2007 : 3rd Halle–Ingooigem : 5th Overall Ster Elektrotoer : 9th Overall

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: 10th Overall Volta ao Algarve ;2008 : 3rd Trofeo Sóller : 5th Le Samyn : 6th Paris–Brussels : 6th Grand Prix de Fourmies ;2010 : Jersey red number

Combativity award Stage 1 Tour de France ;2011 : 7th Overall Tour of Belgium ;2012 : 3rd Overall Tour de l'Eurométropole : 7th Binche–Tournai–Binche : 8th Dwars door Vlaanderen : 10th Overall Tour of Belgium : 10th Paris–Roubaix ;2013 : 2nd Trofeo Platja de Muro : 9th Omloop Het Nieuwsblad ;2014 : 6th Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne ;2016 : 9th Le Samyn : 9th Tour de l'Eurométropole ;2017 : 2nd Omloop van het Houtland : 3rd

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;2018 : 1st Stage 5 ( TTT) Tour of Britain

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

References

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* Belgian male cyclists Sportspeople from Hasselt Cyclists from Limburg (Belgium) 1982 births Living people European Games competitors for Belgium Cyclists at the 2015 European Games 21st-century Belgian people {{Belgium-cycling-bio-1980s-stub