Edward Theuns (born 30 April 1991) is a Belgian racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Lidl–Trek.[5]
 Theuns in 2023 | |||||||||||||||
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| Born | 30 April 1991 Ghent, Belgium | ||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) | ||||||||||||||
| Weight | 72 kg (159 lb; 11 st 5 lb) | ||||||||||||||
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| Current team | Lidl–Trek | ||||||||||||||
| Discipline | Road | ||||||||||||||
| Role | Rider | ||||||||||||||
| Rider type | Classics specialist | ||||||||||||||
| Amateur team | |||||||||||||||
| 2010–2013 | VL Technics–Abutriek | ||||||||||||||
| Professional teams | |||||||||||||||
| 2014–2015 | Topsport Vlaanderen–Baloise[1] | ||||||||||||||
| 2016–2017 | Trek–Segafredo | ||||||||||||||
| 2018 | Team Sunweb[2] | ||||||||||||||
| 2019– | Trek–Segafredo[3][4] | ||||||||||||||
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One-day races and Classics
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Medal record
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Career
editTheuns made his debut for Topsport Vlaanderen–Baloise in 2014. He took his first victory in August 2014 in the Grote Prijs Stad Zottegem. He also rode for his national team at the 2014 UCI Road World Championships. In 2015, he began his season with four top-ten finishes at the Étoile de Bessèges, finishing fifth overall and winning the points classification. He took his second career win in March 2015 with victory in the Ronde van Drenthe.[6] In August 2015 it was announced that Theuns would join Trek–Segafredo for the 2016 season.[7] He was named in the start list for the 2016 Tour de France[8] and the 2017 Vuelta a España.[9]
In 2018, Theuns signed with Team Sunweb, before returning to ride for Trek–Segafredo the following year.[3][2] In 2019, he won the Primus Classic.
Major results
edit- 2010
- 8th Overall Le Triptyque des Monts et Châteaux
- 1st Stage 4
- 2012
- 8th Paris–Tours Espoirs
- 2013
- 1st Stage 2a (ITT) Le Triptyque des Monts et Châteaux
- 1st
Mountains classification, Giro della Regione Friuli Venezia Giulia
- 2nd Overall Tour du Piémont Vosgien
- 3rd Time trial, National Under-23 Road Championships
- 6th Liège–Bastogne–Liège Espoirs
- 7th GP Briek Schotte[10]
- 8th Paris–Tours Espoirs
- 10th La Côte Picarde
- 2014 (1 pro win)
- 1st Grote Prijs Stad Zottegem
- 3rd Handzame Classic
- 4th Châteauroux Classic
- 7th Omloop van het Waasland
- 2015 (3)
- 1st Ronde van Drenthe
- 1st Stage 3 Tour de l'Eurométropole
- 2nd Dwars door Vlaanderen
- 2nd Scheldeprijs
- 2nd Rund um Köln
- 3rd Halle–Ingooigem
- 4th Dwars door Drenthe
- 4th Nationale Sluitingsprijs
- 5th Overall Étoile de Bessèges
- 1st
Points classification
- 1st
- 5th Overall Ster ZLM Toer
- 5th Clásica de Almería
- 5th Ronde van Zeeland Seaports
- 7th Overall Four Days of Dunkirk
- 1st Stage 5
- 7th Overall World Ports Classic
- 7th Grand Prix d'Ouverture La Marseillaise
- 8th Paris–Tours
- 8th Grand Prix de Fourmies
- 9th Schaal Sels
- 2016 (1)
- 1st Stage 1 Tour of Belgium
- 3rd Dwars door Vlaanderen
- 3rd Halle–Ingooigem
- 4th Scheldeprijs
- 8th Omloop Het Nieuwsblad
- 8th Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne
- Tour de France
- Held
after Stage 1
- Held
- 2017 (2)
- Tour of Turkey
- 1st
Points classification
- 1st Stage 6
- 1st
- 1st Stage 4 BinckBank Tour
- 2nd Halle–Ingooigem
- 5th Down Under Classic
- 6th Road race, UEC European Road Championships
- 7th Overall Three Days of De Panne
- 8th Paris–Roubaix
- 2018
- 6th Omloop Het Nieuwsblad
- 2019 (1)
- 1st Primus Classic
- 6th Omloop van het Houtland
- 9th Kampioenschap van Vlaanderen
- 2020
- 5th Road race, National Road Championships
- 2021 (1)
- 1st Stage 5 Tour de Hongrie
- 2nd Road race, National Road Championships
- 8th Overall Étoile de Bessèges
- 8th Clásica de Almería
Combativity award Stage 2 Tour de France
- 2022
- 2nd Paris–Tours
- 3rd Grand Prix d'Isbergues
- 5th Scheldeprijs
- 6th Eschborn–Frankfurt
- 7th Paris–Bourges
- 2023
- 2nd Nokere Koerse
- 2nd Binche–Chimay–Binche
- 3rd Le Samyn
- 6th Scheldeprijs
- 9th Paris–Tours
- 10th Bredene Koksijde Classic
- 2024
- 9th Binche–Chimay–Binche
Grand Tour general classification results timeline
edit| Grand Tour | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
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| — | — | — | — | — | — | 131 | — | 113 | |
| DNF | — | 88 | — | 119 | 104 | — | — | ||
| — | 91 | — | 133 | — | — | — | 128 |
| — | Did not compete |
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| DNF | Did not finish |
References
edit- ^ "Edward Theuns". cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 11 October 2014.
- ^ a b "Team Sunweb sign Theuns and Vervaeke". Cyclingnews.com. Immediate Media Company. 19 August 2017. Retrieved 4 January 2018.
- ^ a b "Trek-Segafredo announce official 2019 rosters for men and women". Trek Bicycle Corporation. Intrepid Corporation. 27 December 2018. Retrieved 5 January 2019.
- ^ "Trek-Segafredo announce complete 2020 men's roster". Cyclingnews.com. Future plc. 9 November 2019. Retrieved 3 January 2020.
- ^ "Trek - Segafredo". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 2 January 2021. Retrieved 2 January 2021.
- ^ "Edward Theuns". ProCyclingStats. Retrieved 14 March 2015.
- ^ Clarke, Stuart (19 August 2015). "Trek Factory Racing sign young talents Theuns and Bonifazio for 2016". Cycling Weekly. Retrieved 19 August 2015.
- ^ "2016 > 103rd Tour de France > Startlist". ProCyclingStats. Retrieved 30 June 2016.
- ^ "2017 > 72nd Vuelta a España > Startlist". ProCyclingStats. Retrieved 17 August 2017.
- ^ "Julien Vermote remporte le GP Briek Schotte à Desselgem" [Julien Vermote wins the GP Briek Schotte in Desselgem]. rtbf.be (in French). 10 September 2013. Retrieved 11 March 2019.
External links
editWikimedia Commons has media related to Edward Theuns.
- Edward Theuns at UCI
- Edward Theuns at Cycling Archives (archived)
- Edward Theuns at ProCyclingStats
- Edward Theuns at CQ Ranking
- Edward Theuns at CycleBase