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Born | Wilrijk, Flanders, Belgium | 28 October 1991||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 72 kg (159 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Current team | Lotto–Dstny | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Discipline | Road | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Role | Rider | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Rider type | Time trialist,[1] Rouleur | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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2011–2012 | Bianchi–Lotto–Nieuwe Hoop Tielen | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2013 | Lotto–Belisol U23 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Professional teams | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2014–2015 | Topsport Vlaanderen–Baloise | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2016–2017 | LottoNL–Jumbo | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2018–2019 | Lotto–Soudal[2] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2020–2021 | NTT Pro Cycling[3][4] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2022– | Lotto–Soudal | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Victor Campenaerts (born 28 October 1991) is a Belgian racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI ProTeam Lotto–Dstny.[5]
He rode at the 2014 UCI Road World Championships. In September 2015 it was announced that he would join the UCI World Tour ranks in 2016 with LottoNL–Jumbo.[1] He was named in the startlist for the 2016 Vuelta a España[6] and the start list for the 2017 Giro d'Italia.[7]
On 16 April 2019, at the Aguascalientes Bicentenary Velodrome in Aguascalientes, Mexico, Campenaerts broke the hour record, riding 55.089 kilometres (34.231 miles), surpassing Bradley Wiggins' previous mark set on 7 June 2015 by 563 metres (1,847 feet).[8] In doing so, he became the fourth Belgian cyclist to hold the hour record, after Oscar Van den Eynde (1897–98), Ferdinand Bracke (1967–68) and Eddy Merckx (1972–2000).[9]
Campenaerts rejoined Lotto–Soudal, on a 3 year contract, in 2022 after 2 years away at Team Qhubeka NextHash.[10]
Riding for the now renamed Lotto–Dstny, Campenaerts rode the 2023 Tour de France. Upon the race's conclusion in Paris, he was selected as the winner of the race's super-combativity award, as the most combative rider overall during the race.[11] Campenaerts made the breakaway 5 times during the race, including on stages 18 and 19, which had both been forecast as sprint finishes. Campenaerts played a big role in each stage's successful breakaway, helping his teammates and holding off the charging peloton.[12][13]
Grand Tour | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 |
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Giro d'Italia | — | DNF | DNF | 111 | 95 | DNF | — | — |
Tour de France | — | — | — | — | — | DNF | — | 64 |
Vuelta a España | 143 | — | 102 | — | — | — | — | — |
— | Did not compete |
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DNF | Did not finish |