 Stuyven at the2019 Tour de France | |||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Jasper Stuyven | ||||||||||||||
| Nickname | The Chocolatier from Flanders[citation needed] | ||||||||||||||
| Born | (1992-04-17)17 April 1992 (age 33) Leuven,Flanders, Belgium | ||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in) | ||||||||||||||
| Weight | 78 kg (172 lb; 12 st 4 lb) | ||||||||||||||
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| Current team | Lidl–Trek | ||||||||||||||
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| Role | Rider | ||||||||||||||
| Rider type | Classics specialist All-rounder | ||||||||||||||
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| 2009–2010 | Avia Cycling Team | ||||||||||||||
| 2011 | Ovyta–Eijssen–Acrog | ||||||||||||||
| Professional teams | |||||||||||||||
| 2012–2013 | Bontrager–Livestrong | ||||||||||||||
| 2014– | Trek Factory Racing[1][2] | ||||||||||||||
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Jasper Stuyven (born 17 April 1992) is a Belgian professionalracing cyclist, who currently rides forUCI WorldTeamLidl–Trek.[3] He is considered to be aclassics specialist, and has won several major races including the2021 Milan–San Remo, one of cycling'smonuments, the2020 Omloop Het Nieuwsblad and the2016 Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne. He has also had success in stage races, winning the overall classification of the2019 Deutschland Tour as well as a stage of the2015 Vuelta a España. Stuyven has also competed in six editions of theTour de France, finishing on the podium several times on different stages.[4]
Born inLeuven, Stuyven had a successful career as a junior rider. In 2009, at age 17, he won theUCI Junior World Road Race Championships. 2010 brought Stuyven more successes when he won one day racesParis-Roubaix Juniors and Remouchamps–Ferrières–Remouchamps.
He began his professional career at age 20 forBontrager–Livestrong; he earned four victories with the team, including theVolta ao Alentejo.
Stuyven joinedUCI WorldTeamTrek Factory Racing in 2014 at the age of 22. During this season, he rode in his first grand tour, theVuelta a España. In this race, he earned fourth place in three stages and finished ninth in the points classification.[5]
2015 brought Stuyven his biggest victory yet, when he won stage 8 of theVuelta a España in a reduced bunch sprint. Stuyven had been involved in a crash earlier in the stage and he was forced to withdraw from the race after the stage with a brokenscaphoid.[6]
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In 2016, he won the Belgian one-day raceKuurne–Brussels–Kuurne by breaking away solo for the last 17 kilometres (11 miles) of the race.[7] Stuyven also earned a fifth place at theE3 Harelbeke. He was named in the start list for theTour de France[8] where he held the polka-dot jersey as leader of themountains classification for two days.
Stuyven was part of the 5 man leading group atParis–Roubaix, and finished fourth in the sprint finish behindGreg Van Avermaet ofBMC Racing Team.[9] He rode in theGiro d'Italia.[10] In stage six, Stuyven finished second behindSilvan Dillier of BMC Racing Team after the pair had been part of a five-man breakaway that rode clear of the peloton for almost all of the 217-kilometre (135-mile) stage.[11] Stuyven finished the race in 98th place overall, and was second in the points classification behindFernando Gaviria ofQuick-Step Floors.
In 2018, Stuyven finished in the top 10 in many of thespring classics, including 4th place inOmloop Het Nieuwsblad,[12] and 5th inParis–Roubaix, being part of the chase group withSep Vanmarcke and defending championGreg Van Avermaet.[13] In theTour de France, he came close to winningstage 14 but was overtaken on the last climb by eventual stage winnerOmar Fraile with less than 3 kilometres (1.9 miles) to go; for his efforts, however, he walked away with the day'scombativity award. In September, he first won theGrand Prix de Wallonie, before winning his home town race inLeuven, theGrote Prijs Jef Scherens.[14]
In late August, Stuyven won theDeutschland Tour after taking the overall lead on stage 3.[15] He carried his good form into theautumn classics with several top ten results, including two podium finishes at theGrand Prix de Wallonie and theTour de l'Eurométropole.
Before theCOVID-19 pandemic shut down the 2020 road cycling season, Stuyven got off to a strong start. In the opening weekend of the Belgian road cycling season, he wonOmloop Het Nieuwsblad, beating fellow BelgianYves Lampaert in a two-up sprint, before finishing fifth inKuurne–Brussels–Kuurne the day after.[16][17] Once racing resumed, he bookended August with a pair of fifth-place finishes in theCircuito de Getxo on 2 August and then in theUEC European Road Championships road race on 26 August.[18]
On 20 March, Stuyven wonMilan-San Remo for his firstMonument victory. With three kilometers left, he attacked at the bottom of the descent of thePoggio, the last climb in the race. Many of the main pre-race favorites in the lead group were hesitant to chase him down, thoughSøren Kragh Andersen managed to bridge across to Stuyven in the final kilometer. With the group closing down the duo, Stuyven launched out of Kragh Andersen's slipstream in the last 200 meters. Though he was on his limit, he held on for the win on the line just ahead of the chasing group, led home byCaleb Ewan ahead of defending championWout van Aert.[19][20]
Stuyven studied at theSint-Pieterscollege inLeuven. Outside of cycling, he and his uncle Ivan, an experienced chocolatier, run a small chocolate boutique inBetekom namedChocolade Atelier Stuyven that opened in 2016 and often produces many cycling-themed pieces.[21]
Road race,UCI World Junior Championships
Road race,UCI World Junior Championships
OverallVolta ao Alentejo
Points classification
Young rider classification
after Stages 2–4
Combativity award Stage 2Combativity award Stage 14Tour de France
OverallDeutschland Tour
Combativity award Stage 9Tour de France| Grand Tour | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Giro d'Italia | — | — | — | 98 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 92 |
| Tour de France | — | — | 99 | — | 63 | 43 | 71 | 39 | 80 | 79 | 61 |
| Vuelta a España | 88 | DNF | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Monument | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
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| Milan–San Remo | — | — | — | 39 | 10 | 79 | — | 1 | — | 10 | 8 | 23 |
| Tour of Flanders | 61 | 32 | 118 | 51 | 7 | 19 | 26 | 4 | 50 | 26 | — | 5 |
| Paris–Roubaix | 55 | 49 | 39 | 4 | 5 | 27 | NH | 25 | 7 | 20 | — | 95 |
| Liège–Bastogne–Liège | Has not contested during his career | |||||||||||
| Giro di Lombardia | — | — | DNF | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Classic | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
| Omloop Het Nieuwsblad | — | — | 9 | 8 | 4 | 40 | 1 | 83 | 10 | 58 | 7 | 48 |
| Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne | — | — | 1 | 2 | 38 | DNS | 5 | 22 | 15 | 10 | 10 | 38 |
| E3 Harelbeke | DNF | — | 5 | DNF | 6 | 58 | NH | 14 | 15 | 50 | 2 | 5 |
| Gent–Wevelgem | — | — | — | 46 | 9 | 17 | 38 | — | 4 | 36 | 41 | 43 |
| Dwars door Vlaanderen | 33 | — | 20 | — | 10 | 14 | NH | 10 | — | 34 | DNF | 18 |
| Bretagne Classic | — | — | 47 | DNF | — | — | — | 7 | — | — | 49 | 10 |
| Grand Prix Cycliste de Quebec | — | — | 50 | 18 | 3 | 5 | Not held | 76 | — | — | — | |
| Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal | — | — | 12 | 14 | 14 | 29 | 62 | — | — | — | ||
| Paris–Tours | 37 | 101 | — | — | — | — | — | 3 | — | 37 | — | 9 |
| Event | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | |
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| World Championships | Road race | — | — | 24 | 89 | — | — | DNF | 4 | 47 | 6 | DNF | — |
 European Championships | Road race | Did not exist | — | — | 12 | — | 5 | — | — | 12 | — | — | |
 National Championships | Road race | 6 | — | DNF | 3 | 3 | 23 | 55 | 8 | 63 | 3 | 17 | 63 |
| — | Did not compete |
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| DNF | Did not finish |
UEC European Championships National Championships
| UCI Road World Champions –Men's junior road race | |
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