 Nuyens at the 2011Four Days of Dunkirk | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Nick Nuyens |
| Nickname | Bom van Bevel ("Bomb fromBevel") |
| Born | (1980-05-05)5 May 1980 (age 45) Lier,Flanders, Belgium |
| Height | 1.77 m (5 ft 10 in) |
| Weight | 68 kg (150 lb) |
| Team information | |
| Discipline | Road |
| Role | Rider |
| Rider type | Classics specialist |
| Professional teams | |
| 2003–2006 | Quick-Step–Davitamon |
| 2007–2008 | Cofidis |
| 2009–2010 | Rabobank |
| 2011–2012 | Saxo Bank–SunGard |
| 2013–2014 | Garmin–Sharp |
| Major wins | |
Stage races
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Nick Nuyens (born 5 May 1980) is a Belgian former professionalroad racing cyclist who last rode forGarmin–Sharp in theUCI World Tour.[1] His biggest wins included the semi-classicsKuurne–Brussels–Kuurne,Omloop Het Volk,Paris–Brussels and the classicTour of Flanders. He was aclassics rider. His first wife was the Belgian multiple national champion,Evy Van Damme, with whom he had three children. In 2015 he married Lynn Peeters.[2] He retired in 2015 after failing to secure a new contract.[3]
The year 2011 was a good one for him, since he took the victory on twoclassics in Flanders. At the end of March, he prevailed in a sprint at theDwars door Vlaanderen, after desperately trying to steer clear of the group in the last 20 kilometres (12 mi) of the race.Geraint Thomas ofTeam Sky finished second, while the lead group was a few seconds away.[4] Two weeks later, Nuyens took one of theMonuments of cycling, theTour of Flanders. After the Muur van Geraardsbergen, one of the big favourites,Fabian Cancellara, was caught by the bunch. Nuyens was part of the chasers that bridged to the leading group in the final kilometers, and a trio of riders were left to battle it out for the finish while another group was very close to them in the final meters. Nuyens got the better ofSylvain Chavanel (Quick-Step) and Cancellara in the three-man sprint. Nuyens said of his biggest win of his career: "It was only in the final 50 meters that I started to fully realize what was happening, that I was about to win this beautiful race."[5]
Nuyens left Saxo Bank–Tinkoff Bank at the end of the 2012 season, and joinedGarmin–Sharp on a three-year contract from the 2013 season onwards.[1]
During the 2009 season he used a wood block under his saddle to prevent it from sagging in wet conditions.[6]
Since 2017 Nuyens has been the general manager of theVérandas Willems–Crelan cycling team, which is a roadPro Continental cycling team and one of the main Belgian cyclo-cross teams.
Road race, National Under-23 Road Championships
OverallSter Elektrotoer
Young rider classification OverallTour of Britain OverallÉtoile de Bessèges| Grand Tour | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Giro d'Italia | DNF | — | — | DNF | — | — | — | — | — |
| Tour de France | — | — | DNF | — | — | — | — | 121 | — |
 Vuelta a España | — | — | — | 78 | — | 127 | 161 | — | DNF |
| Monument | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Milan–San Remo | — | 176 | 162 | 122 | 44 | 20 | 32 | 61 | 70 | — | — | — |
| Tour of Flanders | — | — | 21 | 17 | 7 | 2 | 15 | DNF | 1 | — | — | — |
| Paris–Roubaix | — | — | 40 | 57 | DNF | 21 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Liège–Bastogne–Liège | — | 129 | — | — | — | — | — | — | DNF | — | — | — |
| Giro di Lombardia | DNF | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 61 | — | — | — |
| Classic | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 |
| Omloop Het Nieuwsblad | 40 | — | 1 | 90 | 4 | 2 | 14 | 55 | — | — | 65 | 62 |
| Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne | — | — | DNF | 1 | 63 | DNF | 8 | DNF | — | — | NH | DNF |
| Dwars door Vlaanderen | 51 | — | 6 | 29 | 14 | 10 | 16 | 12 | 1 | — | — | 44 |
| E3 Harelbeke | — | — | — | — | — | — | 7 | DNF | 38 | — | DNF | 59 |
| Gent–Wevelgem | — | 22 | 34 | 23 | 23 | — | DNF | — | 39 | — | — | 116 |
| Brabantse Pijl | — | 36 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 8 | — | 22 | — | — | — | 51 |
| Amstel Gold Race | — | — | — | — | 121 | — | 8 | 25 | 27 | — | — | — |
| Paris–Tours | 85 | DNF | 78 | 29 | — | 24 | 18 | 155 | — | — | — | — |
| — | Did not compete |
|---|---|
| DNF | Did not finish |
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