Remco Evenepoel

Remco Evenepoel (born 25 January 2000) is a Belgian cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Deceuninck–Quick-Step.[3]

Remco Evenepoel
Personal information
Born (2000-01-25) 25 January 2000
Aalst, Belgium
Height1.71 m (5 ft 7 1⁄2 in)[1]
Weight61 kg (134 lb; 9 st 8 lb)[1]
Team information
Current teamDeceuninck–Quick-Step
DisciplineRoad
RoleRider
Amateur teams
2017Forte Young CT
2018Acrog–Pauwels Sauzen
Professional team
2019–Deceuninck–Quick-Step[2]
Major wins
Stage races
Tour of Belgium (2019)
Volta ao Algarve (2020)
Vuelta a Burgos (2020)
Vuelta a San Juan (2020)
Tour de Pologne (2020)

One-day races and Classics

European Time Trial Championships (2019)
Clásica de San Sebastián (2019)

He is the son of Patrick Evenepoel, a former racing cyclist who won the 1993 Grand Prix de Wallonie.[4] Remco Evenepoel started his sport career in association football, playing for the youth teams of R.S.C. Anderlecht and PSV Eindhoven, as well as being featured in the youth national teams of Belgium. Realising that his physical abilities made him more suited for cycling, he switched to the discipline in 2017. After winning the road race and time trial in the junior categories at the 2018 UCI Road World Championships, Evenepoel turned professional with Deceuninck–Quick-Step, skipping the under-23 rank.

Evenepoel is considered one of the biggest talents in world cycling and is often compared to Eddy Merckx, the most successful cyclist of all time.[5][6]

Career
Evenepoel winning the junior world time trial title at the 2018 UCI Road World Championships

Junior career

The son of the former professional cyclist Patrick Evenepoel, Remco Evenepoel started his sporting career as a football player. At the age of five he joined Anderlecht. When he was eleven years old he changed to the youth academy of PSV Eindhoven returning to Anderlecht again at the age of fourteen. He played four times for the Belgium team U15 and five times for the Belgium U16. After some setbacks and disappointments he made a switch to cycling in 2017. He won both the time trial and road race at the 2018 European Junior Road Cycling Championships. The gap between him and the second place rider in the road race was 9 minutes and 44 seconds.[7][8]

Later in the year, Evenepoel also won both the road race and the time trial at the UCI Junior Road World Championships.[9]

2019
Evenepoel celebrating victory at the 2019 Clasica de San Sebastian

Electing to skip the under-23 ranks, Evenepoel announced in July 2018 that he would join Deceuninck–Quick-Step for the 2019 season.[10] For his first season, Evenepoel was scheduled to compete in shorter stage races, and skipped the cobbled, one-day Classic races.[11][12] In his debut race, the Vuelta a San Juan, Evenepoel won the young rider classification and 9th overall whilst also winning his first professional podium in the stage 3 time trial behind teammate Julian Alaphilippe and Valerio Conti.[13] Evenepoel's first professional victory came at the Tour of Belgium, where he won the general classification as well as a stage and the points classification.[14] On 3 August 2019 Evenepoel scored his first World Tour victory when he won the Clasica de San Sebastian. He escaped from the field, accompanied by Toms Skujinš about 20 km (12 mi) from the finish, dropping his companion on the last hill and soloing to victory.[15] He became the third-youngest rider ever to win a cycling classic in the history of the sport.[16] On 8 August 2019, Evenepoel won the time trial at the 2019 European Road Championships.[17] At the World Championships in September, Evenepoel would have been eligible to still ride in the under-23 category, but decided against it and started in the elite men's events.[18] He went on to win the silver medal in the time trial.[19] He spent much of the year sharing a room with Philippe Gilbert who acted in a mentoring role.[20]

2020

Evenepoel started the 2020 season at the Vuelta a San Juan, where he won the individual time trial on stage 3 and the general classification.[21] He then competed at the Volta ao Algarve. Here, he won stage 2 as well as the final stage, a time trial, to clinch overall victory ahead of Maximilian Schachmann.[22]

After the extended break in the cycling calendar due to the COVID-19 pandemic, he won the Vuelta a Burgos[23] and the Tour de Pologne.[24]

Remco Evenepoel suffered a serious accident at Il Lombardia. While descending the Muro di Sormano and after a sharp curve, he collided with a low wall on the side of a bridge and was thrown over it with the impact, falling in a dirt area near some trees, several meters below the road.[25] No other cyclists were involved in the accident and he was swiftly removed from the scene by the emergency services, being conscious and responsive all the time. Hours later, his team reported he suffered a fractured pelvis and a right lung contusion, also referring he will not return to competition anytime soon.[26]

Career achievements

Major results
2017
1st La Philippe Gilbert Juniors
1st La Route des Géants
Aubel–Thimister–La Gleize
1st Points classification
1st Stage 2b
2018
UCI Junior Road World Championships
1st Road race
1st Time trial
UEC European Junior Road Championships
1st Road race
1st Time trial
National Junior Road Championships
1st Road race
1st Time trial
1st Overall Giro della Lunigiana
1st Points classification
1st Mountains classification
1st Stages 1 & 2
1st Overall Course de la Paix Juniors
1st Points classification
1st Mountains classification
1st Stages 2a (ITT) & 4
1st Overall GP Général Patton
1st Points classification
1st Mountains classification
1st Stages 1 & 2
1st Overall Aubel–Thimister–Stavelot
1st Points classification
1st Mountains classification
1st Stage 3
1st Overall Trophée Centre Morbihan
1st Points classification
1st Stage 1
1st Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne Juniores
1st Chrono des Nations Juniores
1st Guido Reybrouck Classic
2019
1st Time trial, UEC European Road Championships
1st Overall Tour of Belgium
1st Points classification
1st Stage 2
1st Clásica de San Sebastián
2nd Time trial, UCI Road World Championships
3rd Time trial, National Road Championships
4th Overall Tour of Turkey
8th Overall Adriatica Ionica Race
1st Stage 3
9th Overall Vuelta a San Juan
1st Young rider classification
2020
1st Overall Volta ao Algarve
1st Young rider classification
1st Stages 2 & 5 (ITT)
1st Overall Tour de Pologne
1st Stage 4
1st Overall Vuelta a Burgos
1st Young rider classification
1st Stage 3
1st Overall Vuelta a San Juan
1st Young rider classification
1st Stage 3 (ITT)

General classification results timeline
Grand Tour general classification results
Grand Tour 2019 2020
Giro d'Italia — —
Tour de France — —
Vuelta a España — —
Major stage race general classification results
Stage races 2019 2020
Paris–Nice — —
Tirreno–Adriatico — —
Volta a Catalunya — NH
Tour of the Basque Country —
Tour de Romandie 76
Critérium du Dauphiné — —
Tour de Suisse — NH

Classics results timeline
Monument 2019 2020
Milan–San Remo — —
Tour of Flanders — —
Paris–Roubaix — NH
Liège–Bastogne–Liège — —
Giro di Lombardia — DNF
Classic 2019 2020
Strade Bianche — —
Dwars door Vlaanderen — NH
E3 Harelbeke —
Gent–Wevelgem — —
Amstel Gold Race — —
La Flèche Wallonne — —
Clásica de San Sebastián 1 NH

Major championships timeline
Event 2019 2020
World Championships Time trial 2 —
Road race DNF —
European Championships Time trial 1 —
Road race — —
National Championships Time trial 3 —
Road race 84 —

Awards

References
  1. "Remco Evenepoel, Deceuninck - Quick-Step Cycling team". Retrieved 2 August 2020.
  2. Ryan, Barry (31 December 2019). "2020 Team Preview: Deceuninck-QuickStep". Cyclingnews.com. Future plc. Retrieved 2 January 2020.
  3. "Deceuninck - Quick-Step". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 1 January 2021. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
  4. "Evenepoel: My dream is to win a Grand Tour". 9 January 2019. Retrieved 6 March 2020.
  5. Weber, Joscha (25 September 2019). "Remco Evenepoel: The new Eddy Merckx?". Deutsche Welle. Retrieved 24 February 2020.
  6. "Eddy Merckx: Remco Evenepoel really is something special". cyclingnews.com. 29 September 2018. Retrieved 24 February 2020.
  7. Brown, Gregor (28 September 2018). "Tom Boonen: 'Remco Evenepoel needs to learn to ride tactically at WorldTour level'". Cycling Weekly. Retrieved 25 February 2020.
  8. "European Continental Championships MJ - Road Race (CC)". procyclingstats.com. Retrieved 25 February 2020.
  9. MacLeary, John (27 September 2018). "Remco Evenepoel doubles up at world championships as Belgium starts to believe it has found 'next Eddy Merckx'". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 25 February 2020.
  10. "Evenepoel vanaf 2019 al prof bij Quick-Step: "Sky kwam nog met gek bod"" [Evenepoel from 2019: pro at Quick-Step already: "Sky came with crazy bid"]. Sporza (in Dutch). Vlaamse Radio- en Televisieomroeporganisatie. 18 July 2018. Retrieved 2 January 2019.
  11. "Evenepoel reveals schedule for debut with Deceuninck-QuickStep". Cyclingnews.com. Immediate Media Company. 7 November 2018. Retrieved 2 January 2019.
  12. "Evenepoel will not ride cobbled Classics in 2019". Cyclingnews.com. Immediate Media Company. 10 December 2018. Retrieved 2 January 2019.
  13. "Vuelta a San Juan Stage 3 Results" (PDF).
  14. "Baloise Belgium Tour: Evenepoel takes overall victory". Cyclingnews.com. 16 June 2019. Retrieved 29 June 2019.
  15. Malach, Pat (3 August 2019). "Evenepoel wins Clasica San Sebastian". cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 5 August 2019.
  16. Long, Jonny (4 August 2019). "'In the last four kilometres I had tears in my eyes': Remco Evenepoel emotional after debut classics victory". Cycling Weekly. Retrieved 5 August 2019.
  17. Evenepoel wins time trial title at European Championships
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  19. Frattini, Kirsten (25 September 2019). "Remco Evenepoel: The silver medal feels like gold at this World Championships". cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 25 February 2020.
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  24. Gadzała, Paweł (9 August 2020). "Remco Evenepoel wins Tour de Pologne". CyclingNews. Retrieved 9 August 2020.
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  28. https://www.wielerflits.be/nieuws/remco-evenepoel-wint-kristallen-fiets-als-beste-belgische-renner/
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