Laurens De Vreese
De Vreese at the 2014 Four Days of Dunkirk | |
Personal information | |
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Full name | Laurens De Vreese |
Born |
Ghent, Belgium | 29 September 1988
Height | 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in) |
Weight | 76 kg (168 lb; 12.0 st) |
Team information | |
Current team | Astana |
Discipline | Road |
Role | Rider |
Amateur team(s) | |
2009 | Profel-Prorace |
2010 | Beveren 2000 |
Professional team(s) | |
2011–2013 | Topsport Vlaanderen–Mercator[1] |
2014 | Wanty–Groupe Gobert |
2015– | Astana |
Laurens De Vreese (born 29 September 1988) is a Belgian professional road bicycle racer who rides for UCI World Tour team Astana. De Vreese was the 2010 Belgian national champion for the road race for riders under 23 years of age, winning the title in Hooglede.[2]
Born in Ghent, De Vreese has competed as a professional since the start of the 2011 season, riding as a member of the Topsport Vlaanderen–Mercator squad. At the 2012 running of Liège–Bastogne–Liège, De Vreese was one of a number of riders to be disqualified from the event as a result of taking a short-cut.[3]
De Vreese left Topsport Vlaanderen–Baloise at the end of the 2013 season and joined Wanty–Groupe Gobert for the 2014 season.[4] Subsequently in August 2014 Team Astana announced that De Vreese had signed a one year deal with the squad for 2015.[5] He was named in the startlist for the 2017 Vuelta a España.[6]
Major results
- 2009
- 1st Omloop Het Nieuwsblad U23
- 2nd Flèche Ardennaise
- 2010
- 1st
Road race, National Under–23 Road Championships - 1st Overall Topcompetitie
- 1st Overall Triptyque Ardennaise
- 1st Zillebeke–Westouter–Zillebeke
- 2nd Omloop Het Nieuwsblad U23
- 3rd Flèche Ardennaise
- 4th Overall Tour de Liège
- 1st Stage 4
- 4th Circuit du Hainaut
- 5th Heusden Oost-Vlaanderen
- 7th Road race, UCI Road World Under–23 Championships
- 10th GP Stad Geel
- 2011
- 3rd GP Paul Borremans
- 3rd Heusden Oost-Vlaanderen
- 5th Halle–Ingooigem
- 7th GP José Dubois
- 10th Overall Tour de Wallonie-Picarde
- 2012
- 1st
Combativity classification Eneco Tour - 2nd Paris–Tours
- 4th GP Wanzele
- 2013
- 1st
Combativity classification Tour of Belgium - 1st
Combativity classification Eneco Tour - 6th Overall Tour de l'Eurometropole
- 9th Grand Prix of Aargau Canton
- 9th Binche–Chimay–Binche
- 10th Rund um Köln
- 10th Coppa Bernocchi
- 2016
- 8th Overall Danmark Rundt
Grand Tour general classification results timeline
Grand Tour | 2017 |
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— | |
— | |
122 |
— | Did not compete |
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DNF | Did not finish |
References
- ↑ "Topsport Vlaanderen-Mercator (TSV) – BEL". UCI Continental Circuits. Union Cycliste Internationale. Retrieved 8 August 2012.
- ↑ "De Vrees tops Eijssen for U23 title". Cycling News. Future Publishing Limited. 23 August 2010. Retrieved 8 August 2012.
- ↑ Hood, Andrew (22 April 2012). "Valverde, others disqualified for steering off Liege route". VeloNews. Competitor Group, Inc. Retrieved 8 August 2012.
- ↑ "De Vreese passe chez Wanty en 2014" [De Vreese going on at Wanty in 2014]. RTBF.be (in French). Radio Télévision Belge Francophone. 6 October 2013. Retrieved 10 December 2013.
- ↑ "2015 Contract - Laurens De Vreese". Astana Pro Team. 30 August 2014. Archived from the original on 13 October 2014. Retrieved 5 October 2014.
- ↑ "2017 > 72nd Vuelta a España > Startlist". ProCyclingStats. Retrieved 17 August 2017.
External links
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