Personal information | |
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Full name | Jan Bakelants |
Nickname | Baki |
Born | Oudenaarde, Flanders, Belgium | 14 February 1986
Height | 1.77 m (5 ft 10 in) |
Weight | 67 kg (148 lb; 10.6 st) |
Team information | |
Current team | Retired |
Discipline | Road |
Role | Rider |
Rider type | Puncheur |
Amateur teams | |
2006–2008 | Beveren 2000 |
2008 | Topsport Vlaanderen (stagiaire) |
Professional teams | |
2009 | Topsport Vlaanderen–Mercator |
2010–2011 | Omega Pharma–Lotto |
2012–2013 | RadioShack–Nissan [1] |
2014 | Omega Pharma–Quick-Step |
2015–2018 | AG2R La Mondiale |
2019 | Team Sunweb [2] |
2020–2022 | Circus–Wanty Gobert [3] [4] |
Major wins | |
Grand Tours
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Jan Bakelants (born 14 February 1986) is a Belgian former professional road racing cyclist, who competed as a professional from 2009 to 2022.
His major wins include the 2008 Tour de l'Avenir and stage 2 of the 2013 Tour de France, claiming the yellow jersey after winning the stage by only a second of an advantage on the peloton after a late attack. [5] He also rode the 2010 Giro d'Italia, in which he finished 36th.
Bakelants left RadioShack–Leopard at the end of the 2013 season, and joined Omega Pharma–Quick-Step for the 2014 season. [6] In August 2014, it was announced that he would be leaving Omega Pharma–Quick-Step after one year and joining AG2R La Mondiale on an initial two-year deal. [7]
Bakelants was severely injured in a crash at the 2017 Giro di Lombardia when he crashed into a ravine on a fast descent, fracturing seven ribs and the first and third vertebrae. He did not lose consciousness and was transferred to the hospital in Como. [8] The crash left Bakelants 1 centimetre (0.39 inches) shorter. [9] After his crash, Bakelants spoke out about safety standards in cycling. He hoped to return to racing in March 2018, [10] and did so at the Classic Loire Atlantique in France.
Grand Tour general classification results timeline [11] | |||||||||||||
Grand Tour | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | |
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Giro d'Italia | 36 | 22 | 34 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 43 | — | — | |
Tour de France | — | — | — | 18 | 24 | 20 | 50 | 22 | — | — | — | 48 | |
Vuelta a España | 18 | 31 | 22 | — | — | — | 17 | — | — | — | — | — |