Personal information | |
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Full name | Jacques Janse van Rensburg |
Born | Springs, Gauteng, South Africa | 6 September 1987
Height | 175 cm (5 ft 9 in) [1] |
Weight | 63 kg (139 lb) [1] |
Team information | |
Current team | TEG Pro Cycling Team |
Disciplines |
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Role | Rider |
Amateur teams | |
2020 | First Move [2] |
2021 | DSV |
2022– | TEG Pro Cycling |
Professional teams | |
2006 | Team Konica Minolta [3] |
2007–2008 | Neotel [4] |
2009 | Trek–Marco Polo [3] |
2010 | DCM Chrome |
2011 | Burgos 2016–Castilla y León [3] |
2012–2019 | MTN–Qhubeka [4] [5] |
Major wins | |
One-day races and Classics |
Jacques Janse van Rensburg (born 6 September 1987) is a South African racing cyclist, [4] who rides for South African amateur team TEG Pro Cycling Team. In 2015, he won the South African National Road Race Championships. [6]
During his eight years with Team Dimension Data (2012–2019), Janse van Rensburg rode in six Grand Tours: the Vuelta a España in 2014, [7] 2016 and 2017, the 2015 Tour de France, [8] and the Giro d'Italia in 2017, [9] and 2018.
He is of no relation to fellow South African professional cyclist Reinardt Janse van Rensburg.
Source: [10]
Grand Tour | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 |
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Giro d'Italia | — | — | — | 36 | 78 |
Tour de France | — | 51 | — | — | — |
Vuelta a España | 59 | — | DNF | 82 | — |
— | Did not compete |
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DNF | Did not finish |
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