Jempy Drucker

{{Infobox cyclist

| name = Jempy Drucker

| image = Jempy Drucker (Bora) - Vuelta a España 2019.jpg

| image_size = 200px

| caption = Drucker at 2019 Vuelta a España

| fullname = Jean-Pierre Drucker

| nickname = Jempy

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1986|9|3|df=y}}

| birth_place = Sandweiler, Luxembourg

| height = {{convert|1.82|m|ftin|abbr=on}}

| weight = {{convert|75|kg|lb st|abbr=on}}

| currentteam = Retired

| disciplines = {{ubl|Road|Cyclo-cross}}

| role = Rider

| ridertype = Classics specialist
Sprinter

| amateuryears1 =

| amateurteam1 =

| amateuryears2 =

| amateurteam2 =

| proyears1 = 2004–2008

| proteam1 = {{UCI team code|TFL|2004b}}

| proyears2 = 2009–2010

| proteam2 = {{UCI team code|CCD|2009}}

| proyears3 = 2011–2014

| proteam3 = {{UCI team code|WGG|2011}}

| proyears4 = 2015–2018

| proteam4 = {{UCI team code|BMC|2015}}

| proyears5 = 2019–2020

| proteam5 = {{UCI team code|BOH|2019}}{{cite news|url=https://www.bora-hansgrohe.com/en/press/argonnews201810kader-04/argonnews201810kader-04/59094710|title=With Christoph Pfingsten, BORA – hansgrohe completes its roster for 2019|work={{UCI team code|BOH|2018}}|publisher=Denk Pro Cycling GmbH & Co. KG|date=12 October 2018|access-date=2 January 2019|archive-date=23 April 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190423090206/https://www.bora-hansgrohe.com/en/press/argonnews201810kader-04/argonnews201810kader-04/59094710|url-status=dead}}{{cite news|url=https://www.cyclingnews.com/features/team-preview-bora-hansgrohe/|title=2020 Team Preview: Bora-Hansgrohe|first=Barry|last=Ryan|work=Cyclingnews.com|publisher=Future plc|date=28 December 2019|access-date=1 January 2020}}

| proyears6 = 2021

| proteam6 = {{UCI team code|COF|2021}}{{cite web|url=https://www.uci.org/road/teams/TeamDetail/15236/1000563/279|title=Cofidis|work=UCI.org|publisher=Union Cycliste Internationale|access-date=1 January 2021|archive-url=https://archive.today/20210101063704/https://www.uci.org/road/teams/TeamDetail/15236/1000563/279|archive-date=1 January 2021}}{{cite news|url=https://www.lequipe.fr/Cyclisme-sur-route/Actualites/Le-luxembourgeois-jempy-drucker-chez-cofidis-en-2021/1194031|title=Le Luxembourgeois Jempy Drucker chez Cofidis en 2021|language=fr|trans-title=Luxembourgish Jempy Drucker at Cofidis in 2021|work=L'Équipe|publisher=Éditions Philippe Amaury|date=13 November 2020|access-date=13 November 2020}}

| majorwins =

Grand Tours

:Vuelta a España

::1 individual stage (2016)

One-Day Races and Classics

:National Time Trial Championships (2017)

:London–Surrey Classic (2015)

| medaltemplates =

}}

Jean-Pierre "Jempy" Drucker (born 3 September 1986) is a retired Luxembourgish professional racing cyclist.{{cite web|url=https://www.cyclingweekly.com/news/there-is-no-other-option-left-for-me-jempy-drucker-retires-from-cycling|title='There is no other option left for me': Jempy Drucker retires from cycling|first=Adam|last=Becket|website=Cycling Weekly|publisher=Future plc|date=11 January 2021|access-date=29 January 2022}}

Career

=Fidea (2004–2008)=

Born in Sandweiler, Drucker signed with {{UCI team code|TFL|2004b}} in 2004, a team specializing in cyclo-cross, at age 18. He rode with this team for five seasons, winning two elite national cyclo-cross championships. He was selected to represent Luxembourg at the World Road Race Championships in 2008, but failed to finish.

=Team Differdange (2009–2010)=

For the 2009 season, Drucker joined {{UCI team code|CCD|2009}}. His success in cyclo-cross continued, winning two more national titles. Drucker went to the World Road Race Championships for the second time in 2009, but again did not finish. He won the prologue of the Flèche du Sud, a UCI 2.2 road race in 2010. Drucker also placed second in the Grote Prijs Stad Zottegem that season.

=Wanty–Groupe Gobert (2011–2014)=

After spending two seasons with {{UCI team code|CCD|2010}}, Drucker joined {{UCI team code|WGG|2011}}, a Belgian UCI Professional Continental team. Spending four seasons with the team, he booked no wins, but did finish second overall in the Tour de Luxembourg.

=BMC Racing Team (2015–2018)=

In August 2014, Drucker signed a contract with {{UCI team code|BMC|2015}}.{{cite web |url=http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/jempy-drucker-signs-for-bmc |title=Jempy Drucker signs for BMC|date=7 August 2014 |website=cyclingnews.com|access-date=27 November 2014}} While riding for this team, he won the 2015 RideLondon–Surrey Classic, a one-day race in the United Kingdom. Later that year, he was selected to ride in the Vuelta a España.{{cite web |url=http://www.cyclingfever.com/editie.html?detp=view&_ap=startlijst&editie_idd=MjYwNzQ= |title=Vuelta a España 2015 |access-date=21 August 2015 |work=Cycling Fever}} Drucker finished the race in 118th place overall. Drucker's success continued with this team the following year, winning the prologue of the Tour de Luxembourg and the 16th stage of the Vuelta a España.

In May 2018, he was named in the startlist for the 2018 Giro d'Italia.{{Cite web|url=https://www.procyclingstats.com/race/giro-d-italia/2018/startlist |title=2018: 101st Giro d'Italia: Start List |access-date=3 May 2018 |work=ProCyclingStats}}

=Retirement=

Drucker announced his retirement via Twitter on 10 January 2022.{{Cite tweet |user=jempy_drucker |number=1480565950172782600 |title=a very nice and beautiful chapter in my life comes to an end,but i am also looking forward to the next one.this is the last page.goodbye and thanks everybody for the ride...see you around}}

Major results

=Road=

Source:{{cite web|url=https://firstcycling.com/rider.php?r=1982|title=Jempy Drucker|work=FirstCycling.com|publisher=FirstCycling AS|accessdate=19 September 2022}}

;2003

: National Junior Road Championships

::2nd Time trial

::2nd Road race

;2007

: 6th Overall Mainfranken-Tour

;2008

: 3rd Road race, National Under-23 Road Championships

;2009

: 5th Grote Prijs Stad Zottegem

: 9th Arno Wallaard Memorial

: 10th Overall Flèche du Sud

: 10th Münsterland Giro

;2010

: 1st Prologue Flèche du Sud

: 2nd Grote Prijs Stad Zottegem

: 4th Ronde van Midden-Nederland

: 5th Nationale Sluitingsprijs

: 7th Arno Wallaard Memorial

: 7th Ronde van Noord-Holland

;2011

: 6th Grote Prijs Stad Zottegem

;2012

: 2nd Grote Prijs Stad Zottegem

: 3rd Schaal Sels

: 6th Paris–Brussels

: 7th Omloop van het Houtland

: 9th Grand Prix Pino Cerami

: 10th Grand Prix Criquielion

;2013

: 3rd Road race, National Road Championships

: 3rd Grand Prix d'Isbergues

: 5th Overall Tour de l'Eurométropole

: 5th Ronde van Zeeland Seaports

: 6th Overall Tour de Wallonie

: 7th Omloop van het Houtland

;2014

: 2nd Overall Tour de Luxembourg

: 4th Dwars door Vlaanderen

: 5th Arnhem–Veenendaal Classic

: 5th Münsterland Giro

: 5th Paris–Bourges

: 6th Omloop Het Nieuwsblad

: 6th Grote Prijs Jef Scherens

: 6th Paris–Tours

: 8th Grand Prix d'Isbergues

: 9th Nokere Koerse

: 10th Binche–Chimay–Binche

;2015

: 1st RideLondon–Surrey Classic

: 1st Stage 1 (TTT) Vuelta a España

: 2nd Time trial, National Road Championships

: 5th Grand Prix Impanis-Van Petegem

: 6th Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne

: 7th Overall Driedaagse van West-Vlaanderen

: 10th Handzame Classic

;2016

: 1st Stage 16 Vuelta a España

: 1st Prologue Tour de Luxembourg

: 1st Stage 1 (TTT) Tirreno–Adriatico

: 2nd Time trial, National Road Championships

: 9th E3 Harelbeke

: 10th Overall Ster ZLM Toer

: 10th Paris–Tours

;2017

: 1st 20px Time trial, National Road Championships

: 1st Stage 1 Tour de Luxembourg

: 1st Stage 4 Tour de Wallonie

: 1st Stage 1 (TTT) Tirreno–Adriatico

: 2nd Primus Classic

: 2nd Grand Prix Pino Cerami

: 3rd Overall Tour du Poitou-Charentes

: 4th Overall Dubai Tour

: 4th Eschborn–Frankfurt – Rund um den Finanzplatz

: 5th Tour de l'Eurométropole

: 6th London–Surrey Classic

: 10th Paris–Tours

;2018

: 2nd Tour de l'Eurométropole

: 5th Grand Prix Pino Cerami

: 6th Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne

: 6th Binche–Chimay–Binche

: 7th London–Surrey Classic

: 8th Overall Dubai Tour

;2019

: 6th Omloop Het Nieuwsblad

;2020

: 3rd Road race, National Road Championships

: 5th Three Days of Bruges–De Panne

: 7th Overall Okolo Slovenska

;2021

: 2nd Road race, National Road Championships

==Grand Tour general classification results timeline==

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scope="col" \| Grand Tour ! scope="col" \| 2015 ! scope="col" \| 2016 ! scope="col" \| 2017 ! scope="col" \| 2018 ! scope="col" \| 2019
style="text-align:center;" ! scope="row" \| File:Jersey pink.svg Giro d'Italia \|— \|— \|— \|118 \|—
style="text-align:center;" ! scope="row" \| File:Jersey yellow.svg Tour de France \| style="color:#4d4d4d;" colspan=5\|Did not contest during his career
style="text-align:center;" ! scope="row" \| File:Jersey red.svg Vuelta a España \|118 \|142 \|— \|— \|DNF

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scope="col" | Grand Tour

! scope="col" | 2015

! scope="col" | 2016

! scope="col" | 2017

! scope="col" | 2018

! scope="col" | 2019

style="text-align:center;"

! scope="row" | File:Jersey pink.svg Giro d'Italia

|—

|118

|—

style="text-align:center;"

! scope="row" | File:Jersey yellow.svg Tour de France

| style="color:#4d4d4d;" colspan=5|Did not contest during his career

style="text-align:center;"

! scope="row" | File:Jersey red.svg Vuelta a España

|118

|142

|—

|DNF

==Classics results timeline==

class="wikitable plainrowheaders"
Monument ! scope="col" \|2011 ! scope="col" \|2012 ! scope="col" \|2013 ! scope="col" \|2014 ! scope="col" \|2015 ! scope="col" \|2016 ! scope="col" \|2017 ! scope="col" \|2018 ! scope="col" \|2019 ! scope="col" \|2020 ! scope="col" \|2021
style="text-align:center;" ! scope="row" \| Milan–San Remo \| — \| — \| — \| — \| — \| 139 \| — \| 56 \| 30 \| — \| —
style="text-align:center;" ! scope="row" \| Tour of Flanders \| 102 \| — \| DNF \| DNF \| 28 \| 19 \| 99 \| 31 \| — \| 37 \| DNF
style="text-align:center;" ! scope="row" \| Paris–Roubaix \| — \| — \| — \| 20 \| 73 \| 69 \| 74 \| 23 \| — \| style="color:#4d4d4d;"\| NH \| 43
style="text-align:center;" ! scope="row" \| Liège–Bastogne–Liège \| — \| — \| DNF \| — \| — \| — \| — \| — \| — \| — \| —
style="text-align:center;" ! scope="row" \| Giro di Lombardia \| — \| — \| — \| — \| — \| — \| — \| — \| — \| DNF \| —
Classic ! scope="col" \|2011 ! scope="col" \|2012 ! scope="col" \|2013 ! scope="col" \|2014 ! scope="col" \|2015 ! scope="col" \|2016 ! scope="col" \|2017 ! scope="col" \|2018 ! scope="col" \|2019 ! scope="col" \|2020 ! scope="col" \|2021
style="text-align:center;" ! scope="row" \| Omloop Het Nieuwsblad \| — \| — \| 13 \| style="background:#ddf;" \| 6 \| 49 \| DNF \| 34 \| 30 \| style="background:#ddf;" \| 6 \| 12 \| 82
style="text-align:center;" ! scope="row" \| Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne \| — \| 22 \| style="color:#4d4d4d;"\| NH \| 42 \|style="background:#ddf;" \| 6 \| 73 \| 17 \|style="background:#ddf;" \| 6 \| 35 \| 16 \| 59
style="text-align:center;" ! scope="row" \| E3 Saxo Bank Classic \| — \| — \| DNF \| 28 \| 32 \|style="background:#ddf;" \| 9 \| 47 \| 20 \| 78 \| style="color:#4d4d4d;"\| NH \| DNF
style="text-align:center;" ! scope="row" \| London–Surrey Classic \| — \| — \| — \| — \|style="background:#FFD700;"\| 1 \| 79 \|style="background:#ddf;" \| 6 \|style="background:#ddf;" \| 7 \| 121 \| style="color:#4d4d4d;" colspan=2\| Not held
style="text-align:center;" ! scope="row" \| Paris–Tours \| DNF \| 134 \| 37 \|style="background:#ddf;" \| 6 \| — \|style="background:#ddf;" \| 10 \|style="background:#ddf;" \| 10 \| — \| — \| — \| 42

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Monument

! scope="col" |2011

! scope="col" |2012

! scope="col" |2013

! scope="col" |2014

! scope="col" |2015

! scope="col" |2016

! scope="col" |2017

! scope="col" |2018

! scope="col" |2019

! scope="col" |2020