Jelle Wallays

Jelle Wallays
Wallays in 2014
Personal information
Full name Jelle Wallays
Born (1989-05-11) 11 May 1989
Belgium
Height 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Weight 77 kg (170 lb)
Team information
Current team Lotto–Soudal
Discipline Road
Role Rider
Rider type Classics specialist
Amateur team(s)
2008–2010 Beveren 2000[1]
2010 Topsport Vlaanderen–Mercator (stagiaire)
Professional team(s)
2011–2015 Topsport Vlaanderen–Mercator[2]
2016– Lotto–Soudal
Major wins

Grand Tours

Vuelta a España
1 individual stage (2018)

One-day races and Classics

Paris–Tours (2014)
Dwars door Vlaanderen (2015)

Jelle Wallays (born 11 May 1989) is a Belgian road cyclist, currently riding for UCI WorldTeam Lotto–Soudal.

Career

Jelle Wallays is the brother and nephew of racing cyclists Jens Wallays and Luc Wallays.[3] He was coached by his uncle in his early racing career and competed in his first race at the age of 14. The start of his first year as a professional in 2011 was marred by a knee injury, however a few weeks after returning to competition he took the best result of his season at the Belgian National Road Race Championships, where he finished third behind Philippe Gilbert and Gianni Meersman.[1]

A winner of the under-23 Paris Tours in 2010, Wallays won the 2014 Paris Tours having been in a breakaway that went in the opening kilometres of the 237.5 km (147.6 mi) race, making him the only rider to win the under-23 and elite men's editions of Paris-Tours.[4]

In 2015, he won the Dwars door Vlaanderen by attacking a group of three other riders a kilometer away from the finish line.[5]

Wallays joined Lotto–Soudal for the 2016 season, with a focus on working as part of the team's sprint train.[1] He was named in the startlist for the 2016 Vuelta a España.[6]

Career achievements

Major results

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

Grand Tour 2016 2017 2018
A pink jersey Giro d'Italia — — —
A yellow jersey Tour de France — — —
A red jersey Vuelta a España 92 151 143
Legend
— Did not compete
DNF Did not finish

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Presentation new rider: Jelle Wallays". Lotto–Soudal. Retrieved 30 April 2016.
  2. ↑ "Topsport Vlaanderen-Baloise (TSV) – BEL". UCI Continental Circuits. Union Cycliste Internationale. Retrieved 6 February 2014.
  3. ↑ Tytgat, Martin (7 March 2013). "Wielermilieu rouwt na overlijden Luc Wallays" [Cycling milieu mourns after death of Luc Wallays]. Het Nieuwsblad (in Dutch). Retrieved 30 April 2016.
  4. ↑ Wallays wins Paris-Tours classic
  5. ↑ "Wallays wins Dwars door Vlaanderen". Cyclingnews.com. Future plc. 25 March 2015. Retrieved 26 March 2015.
  6. ↑ "71st Vuelta a España". ProCyclingStats. Retrieved 20 August 2016.
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