Gerben Thijssen

Gerben Thijssen (born 21 June 1998)[4] is a Belgian road and track cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Lotto–Soudal.[5]

Career

Thijssen won the bronze medal at the 2015 UCI Juniors Track World Championships in the points race. He won the silver medal at the 2016–17 UCI Track Cycling World Cup in Apeldoorn in the team pursuit.[6][7] In 2016, as a junior he won 2 stages in the Nations Cup Trofeo Karlsberg, 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 and a stage in Olympia's Tour. He won the gold medal at the 2017 UEC European Track Championships 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, suffering three small brain haemorrhages before being admitted to intensive care.[8]

In October 2020, he was named in the startlist for the 2020 Vuelta a España.[9]

2016

National Junior Track Championships

1st

Omnium

1st

Points race

1st Six Days of Ghent U23 (with Jules Hesters)

1st Omloop der Vlaamse Gewesten

1st Stages 1 & 2a

1st Stage 1 Internationale Cottbuser Junioren-Etappenfahrt

2017

1st

2018

1st

Road race, National Under–23 Road Championships

2019

1st Memorial Van Coningsloo

1st

Young rider classification

1st Stage 2

2020

2nd Gooikse Pijl

Legend
—	Did not compete
DNF	Did not finish

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