Jelle Wallays

Jelle Wallays
	Wallays in 2014
Personal information
Full name	Jelle Wallays
Born	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 teams
2008–2010	Beveren 2000[1]
2010	Topsport Vlaanderen–Mercator (stagiaire)
Professional teams
2011–2015	Topsport Vlaanderen–Mercator[2]
2016–	Lotto–Soudal[3]
Major wins
	Grand Tours Vuelta a España 1 individual stage (2018) One-day races and Classics Paris–Tours (2014, 2019) Dwars door Vlaanderen (2015)

Jelle Wallays (born 11 May 1989) is a Belgian road cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Lotto–Soudal.[4]

Career

Jelle Wallays is the brother and nephew of racing cyclists Jens Wallays and Luc Wallays.[5] 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 Paris–Tours Espoirs 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.[6] He added a second victory in the race in 2019.

In 2015, he won the Dwars door Vlaanderen by attacking a group of three other riders a kilometre away from the finish line.[7]

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.[8]

Major results

2009: 3rd Overall Kreiz Breizh Elites; 5th Road race, National Under-23 Road Championships; 5th Paris–Roubaix Espoirs; 8th Overall Mi–Août Bretonne
2010: 1st Grand Prix Criquielion; 1st Paris–Tours Espoirs; 5th Omloop Het Nieuwsblad Beloften; 8th Ronde van Vlaanderen Beloften
2011: 3rd Road race, National Road Championships; 4th Kattekoers; 5th Internationale Wielertrofee Jong Maar Moedig; 7th Overall Tour of Britain; 10th Grote Prijs Stad Zottegem
2012: 7th Grote Prijs Jef Scherens; 9th Overall Tour de Wallonie
2013: 1st Stage 1 World Ports Classic; 4th Internationale Wielertrofee Jong Maar Moedig; 7th Overall Driedaagse van West–Vlaanderen; 7th Grote Prijs Stad Geel; 7th Grote Prijs Jef Scherens; 8th Overall Post Danmark Rundt
2014: 1st Paris–Tours; 1st Omloop van het Houtland; 3rd Internationale Wielertrofee Jong Maar Moedig; 7th Overall Danmark Rundt; 7th Ronde van Drenthe; 9th Druivenkoers Overijse; 10th Chrono des Nations
2015: 1st Dwars door Vlaanderen; 1st Grand Prix Criquielion; 1st Duo Normand (with Victor Campenaerts); 4th Overall Tour de Luxembourg; 7th Schaal Sels; 8th Overall Ster ZLM Toer
2016: 1st Grand Prix Pino Cerami; 4th Dwars door het Hageland; 9th Overall Driedaagse van West–Vlaanderen
2018: 1st Stage 18 Vuelta a España; 1st Stage 6 Vuelta a San Juan; 4th Tacx Pro Classic
2019: 1st Paris–Tours; 9th Overall ZLM Tour

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

Grand Tour	2016	2017	2018	2019
Giro d'Italia	—	—	—	—
Tour de France	—	—	—	—
Vuelta a España	92	151	143	144

Legend
—	Did not compete
DNF	Did not finish

References

"Presentation new rider: Jelle Wallays". Lotto–Soudal. Archived from the original on 1 June 2016. Retrieved 30 April 2016.
"Topsport Vlaanderen-Baloise (TSV) – BEL". UCI Continental Circuits. Union Cycliste Internationale. Retrieved 6 February 2014.
"Lotto-Soudal". Directvelo (in French). Association Le Peloton. Retrieved 3 January 2019.
"Steff Cras and Matthew Holmes complete Lotto Soudal's 2020 roster". Cyclingnews.com. Future plc. 27 October 2019. Retrieved 2 January 2020.
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.
Wallays wins Paris-Tours classic
"Wallays wins Dwars door Vlaanderen". Cyclingnews.com. Future plc. 25 March 2015. Retrieved 26 March 2015.
"71st Vuelta a España". ProCyclingStats. Retrieved 20 August 2016.

External links

Jelle Wallays at Cycling Archives
Jelle Wallays at ProCyclingStats

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[lotto-1] "Presentation new rider: Jelle Wallays". Lotto–Soudal. Archived from the original on 1 June 2016. Retrieved 30 April 2016.

[2] "Topsport Vlaanderen-Baloise (TSV) – BEL". UCI Continental Circuits. Union Cycliste Internationale. Retrieved 6 February 2014.

[3] "Lotto-Soudal". Directvelo (in French). Association Le Peloton. Retrieved 3 January 2019.

[4] "Steff Cras and Matthew Holmes complete Lotto Soudal's 2020 roster". Cyclingnews.com. Future plc. 27 October 2019. Retrieved 2 January 2020.

[5] 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.

[6] Wallays wins Paris-Tours classic

[7] "Wallays wins Dwars door Vlaanderen". Cyclingnews.com. Future plc. 25 March 2015. Retrieved 26 March 2015.

[Vuelta-8] "71st Vuelta a España". ProCyclingStats. Retrieved 20 August 2016.