Jan Bakelants

Jan Bakelants

Bakelants at the 2013 Tour de Romandie
Personal information
Full name	Jan Bakelants
Nickname	Baki
Born	(1986-02-14) 14 February 1986 (age 39) Oudenaarde, Flanders, Belgium
Height	1.77 m (5 ft 10 in)
Weight	67 kg (148 lb; 10.6 st)
Team information
Current team	Retired
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Rider type	Puncheur
Amateur teams
2006–2008	Beveren 2000
2008	Topsport Vlaanderen (stagiaire)
Professional teams
2009	Topsport Vlaanderen–Mercator
2010–2011	Omega Pharma–Lotto
2012–2013	RadioShack–Nissan [1]
2014	Omega Pharma–Quick-Step
2015–2018	AG2R La Mondiale
2019	Team Sunweb [2]
2020–2022	Circus–Wanty Gobert [3] [4]
Major wins
Grand Tours Tour de France 1 individual stage (2013) One-day races and Classics Gran Piemonte (2015) Giro dell'Emilia (2015)

Jan Bakelants (born 14 February 1986) is a Belgian former professional road racing cyclist, who competed as a professional from 2009 to 2022.

Career

Bakelants at the 2017 Tour de France

His major wins include the 2008 Tour de l'Avenir and stage 2 of the 2013 Tour de France, claiming the yellow jersey after winning the stage by only a second of an advantage on the peloton after a late attack. ^[5] He also rode the 2010 Giro d'Italia, in which he finished 36th.

Bakelants left RadioShack–Leopard at the end of the 2013 season, and joined Omega Pharma–Quick-Step for the 2014 season. ^[6] In August 2014, it was announced that he would be leaving Omega Pharma–Quick-Step after one year and joining AG2R La Mondiale on an initial two-year deal. ^[7]

Bakelants was severely injured in a crash at the 2017 Giro di Lombardia when he crashed into a ravine on a fast descent, fracturing seven ribs and the first and third vertebrae. He did not lose consciousness and was transferred to the hospital in Como. ^[8] The crash left Bakelants 1 centimetre (0.39 inches) shorter. ^[9] After his crash, Bakelants spoke out about safety standards in cycling. He hoped to return to racing in March 2018, ^[10] and did so at the Classic Loire Atlantique in France.

Major results

2006

10th Liège–Bastogne–Liège Espoirs

2007

3rd Paris–Tours Espoirs

2008

1st Overall Tour de l'Avenir

1st Stage 6

1st Overall Circuit des Ardennes

1st Overall Tour de Liège

1st Liège–Bastogne–Liège Espoirs

1st Flèche Ardennaise

2nd Overall Le Triptyque des Monts et Châteaux

2nd Grand Prix de Waregem

3rd Road race, National Under-23 Road Championships

4th Overall Tour des Pyrénées

4th Circuit de Wallonie

8th Overall Circuit Franco-Belge

9th Overall Giro delle Regioni

2009

2nd GP Triberg-Schwarzwald

5th De Vlaamse Pijl

7th Le Samyn

9th Overall Eneco Tour

10th Overall Tour of Belgium

10th Overall Ster Elektrotoer

2010

6th Overall Tour de Wallonie

7th Trofeo Inca

10th Clásica de Almería

2012

4th Road race, National Road Championships

5th Grand Prix de Wallonie

6th Overall Tour Down Under

6th Overall Circuit de la Sarthe

10th Overall Eneco Tour

2013

1st Grand Prix de Wallonie

Tour de France

1st Stage 2

Held after Stages 2 & 3

2nd Amstel Curaçao Race

National Road Championships

3rd Road race

4th Time trial

3rd Overall Tour de Luxembourg

4th Overall Eneco Tour

4th Grand Prix of Aargau Canton

7th Overall Tour of Beijing

10th Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal

2014

1st Stage 6 Critérium du Dauphiné

3rd Grand Prix de Wallonie

7th La Drôme Classic

2015

1st Giro dell'Emilia

1st Gran Piemonte

2nd Grand Prix de Wallonie

4th Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal

6th Overall Critérium International

7th Overall Circuit de la Sarthe

7th Coppa Sabatini

2016

2nd La Drôme Classic

3rd Overall La Méditerranéenne

1st Points classification

1st Stage 4

5th Giro dell'Emilia

6th Coppa Sabatini

8th Overall Tour La Provence

9th Classic Sud-Ardèche

2017

3rd La Drôme Classic

4th Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal

5th Grand Prix de Wallonie

2018

6th Grand Prix Pino Cerami

2019

5th Overall ZLM Tour

2020

4th Road race, National Road Championships

6th Overall Tour de Luxembourg

9th Trofeo Matteotti

2022

1st Stage 5 Tour de Wallonie

Grand Tour results timeline

Grand Tour general classification results timeline [11]
Grand Tour	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
Giro d'Italia	36	22	34	—	—	—	—	—	—	43	—	—
Tour de France	—	—	—	18	24	20	50	22	—	—	—	48
Vuelta a España	18	31	22	—	—	—	17	—	—	—	—	—

References

1. "RadioShack-Nissan-Trek announces lineup for 2012". VeloNews. Competitor Group, Inc. 5 December 2011. Archived from the original on 8 January 2012. Retrieved 17 January 2012.
2. "Team Sunweb confirm 2019 men's and women's rosters". Cyclingnews.com . Immediate Media Company. 23 November 2018. Retrieved 5 January 2019.
3. "Bakelants signs with Circus-Wanty Gobert-Tormans". Cyclingnews.com . Future plc. 6 January 2020. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
4. "Intermarché - Wanty - Gobert Matériaux". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 3 January 2021. Retrieved 3 January 2021.
5. Pete, Cossins (30 June 2013). "Bakelants' luck is finally as good as his legs at Tour de France". Cyclingnews.com . Future plc . Retrieved 1 July 2013.
6. "OPQS Signs Bakelants for 2014". Omega Pharma–Quick-Step . Decolef. 28 September 2013. Archived from the original on 26 February 2014. Retrieved 5 November 2013.
7. "Bakelants confirms move to AG2R-La Mondiale". cyclingnews.com . 29 August 2014. Retrieved 30 August 2014.
8. Adams, Tom (8 October 2017). "Jan Bakelants and Simone Petilli are in hospital after crashing on dangerous Il Lombardia descent". Eurosport . Retrieved 10 October 2017.
9. "Bakelants 1cm shorter after Il Lombardia crash | Cyclingnews". 31 January 2018.
10. "Bakelants: Chris Froome is going to be suspended and that will be right". 4 January 2018.
11. "Jan Bakelants".

External links

• Media related to Jan Bakelants at Wikimedia Commons
• Jan Bakelants at UCI
• Jan Bakelants at Cycling Archives
• Jan Bakelants at ProCyclingStats
• Jan Bakelants at Cycling Quotient
• Jan Bakelants at CycleBase