Gijs Van Hoecke (born 12 November 1991) is a retired Belgian cyclist, who last rode for UCI WorldTeam .
Career
In 2011, when he was 19 years old, he was selected to participate at the Track Cycling World Championships, where he won the bronze medal in the Men's omnium. One year later, at the World Championships in Melbourne, he finished ninth in the same event and became Madison World Champion.
At the 2012 Summer Olympics, he competed in the Men's team pursuit for the Belgian national team, and the men's omnium.
Van Hoecke won the bronze medal at the Madison in the 2013 European Track Championships. During that year, he also won his first six-day race in Amsterdam.
In 2014, Van Hoecke won the Internationale Wielertrofee Jong Maar Moedig road race. In May 2018, he was named in the startlist for the 2018 Giro d'Italia.
In August 2018 he announced that he would join the for 2019, working as a domestique for his training partner, Greg Van Avermaet. Van Hoecke remained with the team into the 2020 season; that August, it was announced that Van Hoecke would join the on a two-year contract, from the start of the 2021 season.
Major results
Road
Source:
2009
1st Overall Giro della Toscana Juniors
5th Overall Münsterland Tour
2011
1st Overall Ronde van de Provincie Antwerpen
2nd ParisâÂÂTours Espoirs
2012
3rd Ronde van Zeeland Seaports
2013
2nd Grand Prix Criquielion
2014
1st Internationale Wielertrofee Jong Maar Moedig
2015
1st Combativity classification, Eneco Tour
8th Internationale Wielertrofee Jong Maar Moedig
10th Overall Ster ZLM Toer
10th Ronde van Limburg
2016
6th Overall Danmark Rundt
8th Overall Ster ZLM Toer
2019
6th Overall Okolo Slovenska
2021
9th Grand Prix of Aargau Canton
Grand Tour general classification results timeline
Track
2008
2nd Madison, UCI World Junior Championships
National Junior Championships
:2nd Omnium
:2nd Team pursuit
:2nd Kilo
:2nd Individual pursuit
2009
1st Omnium, National Junior Championships
2nd Madison, UCI World Junior Championships (with Jochen Deweer)
2010
2nd Omnium, UEC European Under-23 Championships
2nd Scratch, UCI World Cup Classics, Cali
2011
1st Scratch, UCI World Cup, Astana
3rd Omnium, UCI World Championships
2012
1st Madison, UCI World Championships (with Kenny De Ketele)
UEC European Under-23 Championships
:2nd Madison (with Jasper De Buyst)
:3rd Team pursuit
2nd Six Days of Ghent (with Kenny De Ketele)
3rd Team pursuit, UCI World Cup, Glasgow
2013
1st Six Days of Amsterdam (with Kenny De Ketele)
3rd Madison, UEC European Championships (with Kenny De Ketele)
3rd Six Days of Ghent (with Kenny De Ketele)
2015
2nd Six Days of Ghent (with Kenny De Ketele)
3rd Six Days of London (with Iljo Keisse)
References
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