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Gijs Van Hoecke (born 12 November 1991) is a Belgian cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Intermarché–Wanty.
Career
In 2011, when he was 19 years old, he was selected to participate at the Track Cycling World Championships, where he won the bronze medal in the Men's omnium. One year later, at the World Championships in Melbourne, he finished ninth in the same event and became Madison World Champion.
At the 2012 Summer Olympics, he competed in the Men's team pursuit for the Belgian national team, and the men's omnium.
Van Hoecke won the bronze medal at the Madison in the 2013 European Track Championships. During that year, he also won his first six-day race in Amsterdam.
In 2014, Van Hoecke won the Internationale Wielertrofee Jong Maar Moedig road race. In May 2018, he was named in the startlist for the 2018 Giro d'Italia.
In August 2018 he announced that he would join the CCC Team for 2019, working as a domestique for his training partner, Greg Van Avermaet. Van Hoecke remained with the team into the 2020 season; that August, it was announced that Van Hoecke would join the AG2R Citroën Team on a two-year contract, from the start of the 2021 season.
Major results
Track
- 2008
- 2nd Madison, UCI Junior Track Cycling World Championships
- National Junior Track Championships
- 2nd Omnium
- 2nd Team pursuit
- 2nd Kilo
- 2nd Individual pursuit
- 2009
- 1st Omnium, National Junior Track Championships
- 2nd Madison, UCI Juniors Track World Championships (with Jochen Deweer)
- 2010
- 2nd Omnium, UEC European Under-23 Track Championships
- 2nd Scratch, 2010–11 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics, Cali
- 2011
- 1st Scratch, 2011–12 UCI Track Cycling World Cup, Astana
- 3rd Omnium, UCI Track World Championships
- 2012
- 1st Madison, UCI Track World Championships (with Kenny De Ketele)
- UEC European Under-23 Track Championships
- 2nd Madison (with Jasper De Buyst)
- 3rd Team pursuit
- 2nd Six Days of Ghent (with Kenny De Ketele)
- 3rd Team pursuit, 2012–13 UCI Track Cycling World Cup, Glasgow
- 2013
- 1st Six Days of Amsterdam (with Kenny De Ketele)
- 3rd Madison, UEC European Track Championships (with Kenny De Ketele)
- 3rd Six Days of Ghent (with Kenny De Ketele)
- 2015
- 2nd Six Days of Ghent (with Kenny De Ketele)
- 3rd Six Days of London (with Iljo Keisse)
Road
Source:
- 2009
- 1st Overall Giro della Toscana Juniors
- 5th Overall Münsterland Tour
- 2011
- 1st Overall Ronde van de Provincie Antwerpen
- 2nd Paris–Tours Espoirs
- 2012
- 3rd Ronde van Zeeland Seaports
- 2013
- 2nd Grand Prix Criquielion
- 2014
- 1st Internationale Wielertrofee Jong Maar Moedig
- 2015
- 1st Combativity classification Eneco Tour
- 8th Internationale Wielertrofee Jong Maar Moedig
- 10th Overall Ster ZLM Toer
- 10th Ronde van Limburg
- 2016
- 6th Overall Danmark Rundt
- 8th Overall Ster ZLM Toer
- 2019
- 6th Overall Okolo Slovenska
- 2021
- 9th Grand Prix of Aargau Canton
Grand Tour general classification results timeline
| Grand Tour | 2018 |
|---|---|
 Giro d'Italia | 122 |
 Tour de France | — |
 Vuelta a España | — |
| — | Did not compete |
|---|---|
| DNF | Did not finish |
