Twan Castelijns

Twan Castelijns the second
Castelijns in 2016.
Personal information
Full name Twan Castelijns
Born (1989-01-23) January 23, 1989
Hapert, Netherlands
Height 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Weight 70 kg (154 lb)
Team information
Current team Retired
Discipline Road
Role Rider
Amateur team(s)
2011 TWC Snelle Het Wiel
2012–2013 Baby-Dump–Lemmerns–Wilvo
2015 LottoNL–Jumbo (stagiaire)
Professional team(s)
2014 Koga Cycling Team
2015 Baby-Dump Cyclingteam
2016–2017 LottoNL–Jumbo

Twan Castelijns (born January 23, 1989 in Hapert) is a Dutch former cyclist, who rode professionally between 2014 and 2017 for the Koga Cycling Team, Baby-Dump Cyclingteam and LottoNL–Jumbo squads.[1] During his career, he contested two Grand Tours; the 2016 Giro d'Italia,[2] and the 2017 Giro d'Italia.

Career achievements

Major results

2015
3rd Arno Wallaard Memorial
2017
2nd Ronde van Drenthe
6th Rund um Köln
9th Dwars door West–Vlaanderen

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

Grand Tour 2016 2017
A pink jersey Giro d'Italia 114 130
A yellow jersey Tour de France — —
A red jersey Vuelta a España — —
Legend
— Did not compete
DNF Did not finish

References

  1. ↑ "Un omaggio a chi dice addio" [A tribute to those who say goodbye]. Cicloweb.it (in Italian). Cicloweb. 19 December 2017. Retrieved 4 January 2018. Costretto a smettere nonostante buoni risultati il ventottenne Twan Castelijns a cui nessuno, a cominciare dal suo Team LottoNL-Jumbo, ha voluto dare fiducia. [Forced to stop in spite of good results, the twenty-eight year old Twan Castelijns that no one, beginning with his LottoNL-Jumbo team, wanted to give confidence to.]
  2. ↑ "99th Giro d'Italia Startlist". Pro Cycling Stats. Retrieved 6 May 2016.
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