Victor Campenaerts

{{Infobox cyclist

| name = Victor Campenaerts

| image = Victor Campenaerts (2023).jpg

| caption = Campenaerts in 2023

| fullname =

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1991|10|28|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Wilrijk, Belgium

| death_date =

| death_place =

| height = 1.73 m

| weight = 72 kg

| currentteam = {{UCI team code|TVL}}

| discipline = Road

| role = Rider

| ridertype = Time trialist, Rouleur

| amateuryears1 = 2011–2012

| amateurteam1 = Bianchi–Lotto–Nieuwe Hoop Tielen

| amateuryears2 = 2013

| amateurteam2 = {{UCI team code|LTS U23|2013}}

| proyears1 = 2014–2015

| proteam1 = {{UCI team code|TSV|2014}}

| proyears2 = 2016–2017

| proteam2 = {{UCI team code|TLJ|2016}}

| proyears3 = 2018–2019

| proteam3 = {{UCI team code|LTS|2018}}{{cite web|url=https://www.directvelo.com/equipe/1048/lotto-soudal#riders-2019|title=Lotto-Soudal|language=fr|work=Directvelo|publisher=Association Le Peloton|access-date=3 January 2019}}

| proyears4 = 2020–2021

| proteam4 = {{UCI team code|NTT|2020}}{{cite web|url=https://www.uci.org/road/teams//TeamDetail/13992/1001377/260|title=NTT Pro Cycling Team|work=UCI.org|publisher=Union Cycliste Internationale|access-date=3 January 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200103010817/https://www.uci.org/road/teams//TeamDetail/13992/1001377/260|archive-date=3 January 2020}}{{cite web|url=https://www.uci.org/road/teams/TeamDetail/15232/1001377/279|title=Team Qhubeka Assos|work=UCI.org|publisher=Union Cycliste Internationale|access-date=2 January 2021|archive-url=https://archive.today/20210102171533/https://www.uci.org/road/teams/TeamDetail/15232/1001377/279|archive-date=2 January 2021}}

| proyears5 = 2022–2024

| proteam5 = {{UCI team code|LTS|2022}}{{cite web|url=https://www.uci.org/team-details/17182|title=Lotto–Soudal|publisher=UCI|access-date=5 February 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220127171236/https://www.uci.org/team-details/17182|archive-date=27 January 2022}}

| proyears6 = 2025–

| proteam6 = {{UCI team code|TVL|2025}}

| majorwins = Grand Tours

:Tour de France

::1 individual stage (2024)

::Combativity award (2023)

:Giro d'Italia

::1 individual stage (2021)

One-day races and Classics

:{{nowrap|European Time Trial Championships (2017, 2018)}}

:National Time Trial Championships (2016, 2018)

Other

:Hour record 55.089 km (16 April 2019)

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| medaltemplates = {{MedalCountry|{{BEL}}}}

}}

Victor Campenaerts (born 28 October 1991) is a Belgian racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam {{UCI team code|TVL}}.{{cite web|url=https://www.uci.org/team-details/20252|title=Team Visma–Lease a Bike|publisher=UCI|access-date=4 January 2025}}

Career

He rode in the 2014 UCI Road World Championships. In September 2015 it was announced that he would join the UCI World Tour ranks in 2016 with {{UCI team code|TLJ|2016}}.{{cite web |url=http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/transfer-news-guardini-set-for-another-year-with-astana/ |title=Transfer news: Guardini set for another year with Astana|date=25 September 2015 |website=cyclingnews.com |access-date=29 September 2015}} He was named in the startlist for the 2016 Vuelta a España{{cite web |url=http://www.procyclingstats.com/race/Vuelta_a_Espana_2016_Startlist |title=71st Vuelta a España |access-date=20 August 2016 |work=ProCyclingStats}} and the start list for the 2017 Giro d'Italia.{{Cite web|url=http://www.procyclingstats.com/race/Giro_dItalia_2017_Startlist |title=2017: 100th Giro d'Italia: Start List |access-date=2 May 2017 |work=Pro Cycling Stats}}

On 16 April 2019, at the Aguascalientes Bicentenary Velodrome in Aguascalientes, Mexico, Campenaerts broke the hour record, riding {{convert|55.089|km|abbr=off}}, surpassing Bradley Wiggins' previous mark set on 7 June 2015 by {{convert|563|m|abbr=off}}.{{cite web|url=https://www.cyclingweekly.com/news/racing/victor-campenaerts-sets-new-uci-hour-record-420347|title=Victor Campenaerts sets new UCI Hour Record|first=Richard|last=Windsor|date=16 April 2019|website=Cycling Weekly|access-date=17 April 2019}} 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).{{cite news|first=Giovanni|last=Zidda|url=https://www.rtbf.be/article/campenaerts-merckx-bracke-van-den-eynde-ces-belges-qui-ont-detenu-le-record-de-lheure-10871558|title=Campenaerts, Merckx, Bracke, Van den Eynde : ces Belges qui ont détenu le record de l'heure|language=French|trans-title=Campenaerts, Merckx, Bracke, Van den Eynde: these Belgians who held the hour record|work=RTBF|publisher=Radio Télévision Belge de la Communauté Française|date=3 November 2021|accessdate=21 May 2022}}

Campenaerts rejoined {{UCI team code|LTS|2022}}, on a 3 year contract, in 2022 after 2 years away at {{UCI team code|NTT|2021b}}.{{cite web |title=Victor Campenaerts is returning to Lotto Soudal |url=https://cyclingtips.com/2021/10/victor-campenaerts-is-returning-to-lotto-soudal/ |website=CyclingTips |access-date=5 February 2022 |language=en |date=19 October 2021}}

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.{{cite news|first=Daniel|last=Ostanek|url=https://www.cyclingnews.com/news/victor-campenaerts-celebrates-very-special-tour-de-france-super-combativity-prize/|title=Victor Campenaerts celebrates 'very special' Tour de France super-combativity prize|date=24 July 2023|accessdate=4 August 2022}} 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.{{cite news|first=Alana|last=Machado|url=

https://www.360cycles.ie/blogs/360blog/tour-de-france-2023-stage-19-recap/|title=Tour de France 2023 - Stage 19 Recap|date=21 July 2023|accessdate=4 August 2022}}{{cite news|first=Barry|last=Ryan|url=https://www.cyclingnews.com/news/ride-as-fast-as-possible-campenaerts-big-plan-almost-comes-off-at-tour-de-france/|title='Ride as fast as possible' – Campenaerts' big plan almost comes off at Tour de France|date=21 July 2023|accessdate=4 August 2022}}

He continued with Lotto–Dstny into the 2024 Tour de France, at which he won Stage 18.{{cite web |url=https://www.cyclingnews.com/news/tour-de-france-victor-campenaerts-surges-from-three-rider-breakaway-for-stage-18-victory/ |title=Tour de France: Victor Campenaerts surges from three-rider breakaway for stage 18 victory |date= 18 July 2024|work= Cycling News|accessdate= 18 July 2024}}{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cycling/articles/c03582l7y3vo|title=Campenaerts wins stage 18 as Pogacar maintains lead|publisher=BBC Sport|accessdate=18 July 2024}}

On 26 August 2024 Visma–Lease a Bike announced that Campenaerts would return to their team for the 2025 season, he signed a contract for three years. He rode for this team previously when it was called LottoNL–Jumbo.{{cite web|url=https://www.wielerflits.nl/nieuws/victor-campenaerts-streeft-met-visma-lease-a-bike-naar-ultieme-doel-kan-een-succesvol-onderdeel-zijn/|title=Victor Campenaerts streeft met Visma Lease a Bike naar ‘ultieme doel’: "Kan een succesvol onderdeel zijn"|website=Wielerflits|date=August 26, 2024|access-date=August 26, 2024}}

Major results

=Road=

;2013

: 1st 20px Time trial, UEC European Under-23 Championships

: 1st {{cjersey|belgium}} Time trial, National Under-23 Championships

: 4th Overall Vuelta a la Comunidad de Madrid Sub 23

: 8th Time trial, UCI World Under-23 Championships

: 8th Antwerpse Havenpijl

;2015

: 1st Duo Normand (with Jelle Wallays)

: 2nd Overall Tour de Wallonie

::1st {{cjersey|white}} Young rider classification

: 4th Overall Ster ZLM Toer

: 5th Time trial, National Championships

: 10th Overall Boucles de la Mayenne

;2016 (1 pro win)

: 1st {{cjersey|belgium}} Time trial, National Championships

: 2nd 15px Time trial, UEC European Championships

;2017 (2)

: 1st {{cjersey|europe}} Time trial, UEC European Championships

: 1st Stage 3 (ITT) Vuelta a Andalucía

: 2nd Time trial, National Championships

: 4th Overall Tour of Britain

: 5th Chrono des Nations

: 9th Brabantse Pijl

: 10th Rund um Köln

;2018 (2)

: 1st {{cjersey|europe}} Time trial, UEC European Championships

: 1st {{cjersey|belgium}} Time trial, National Championships

: 3rd 15px Time trial, UCI World Championships

;2019 (2)

: 1st Stage 7 (ITT) Tirreno–Adriatico

: 2nd Overall Tour of Belgium

::1st Stage 4

: 4th Time trial, National Championships

;2020

: 2nd Time trial, National Championships

: 3rd 15px Time trial, UEC European Championships

: 8th Time trial, UCI World Championships

;2021 (1)

: 1st Stage 15 Giro d'Italia

: 3rd Time trial, National Championships

: 3rd Overall Benelux Tour

: 10th Road race, UEC European Championships

;2022 (1)

: 1st Tour of Leuven

: 1st {{cjersey|white}} Mountains classification, Tour de Wallonie

: 3rd Time trial, National Championships

: 3rd Circuit Franco-Belge

: 4th Dwars door Vlaanderen

: 5th Overall Tour of Belgium

: 5th Omloop Het Nieuwsblad

: 6th Le Samyn

;2023 (2)

: 1st Druivenkoers Overijse

: 1st Stage 4 (ITT) Tour de Luxembourg

: 6th Tour of Leuven

: Tour de France

::20px Combativity award Stages 18, 19 & Overall

;2024 (1)

: 1st Stage 18 Tour de France

: 6th Time trial, UEC European Championships

: 9th Time trial, UCI World Championships

;2025

: 1st Stage 3 (TTT) Paris–Nice

==Grand Tour general classification results timeline==

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style="text-align:center;" ! scope="row" \| File:Jersey pink.svg Giro d'Italia \| — \| DNF \| DNF \| 111 \| 95 \| DNF \| — \| — \| —
style="text-align:center;" ! scope="row" \| File:Jersey yellow.svg Tour de France \| — \| — \| — \| — \| — \| DNF \| — \| 64 \| 81
style="text-align:center;" ! scope="row" \| File:Jersey red.svg Vuelta a España \| 143 \| — \| 102 \| — \| — \| — \| — \| — \| 111

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scope="col" | Grand Tour

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! scope="col" | 2017

! scope="col" | 2018

! scope="col" | 2019

! scope="col" | 2020

! scope="col" | 2021

! scope="col" | 2022

! scope="col" | 2023

! scope="col" | 2024

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