Personal information | |
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Full name | Jasper Ockeloen |
Born | Dordrecht, Netherlands | 10 May 1990
Height | 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in) |
Weight | 66 kg (146 lb) |
Team information | |
Current team | Sockeloen Cycling Club |
Disciplines |
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Role | Rider |
Amateur teams | |
2012–2013 | Parkhotel Rooding Valkenburg |
2019 | WASp |
2019– | Sockeloen Cycling Club |
Professional teams | |
2009–2010 | Rabobank Continental Team |
2011 | Donckers Koffie–Jelly Belly |
2014–2016 | Parkhotel Valkenburg Continental Team |
2017–2018 | Monkey Town Continental Team |
2023 | Canyon Bicycles |
Jasper Ockeloen (born 10 May 1990 in Dordrecht) is a Dutch cyclist, who rides for Dutch amateur team Sockeloen Cycling Club. [1]
He is the founder of Sockeloen, a company that designs and makes cycling socks, and of the Sockeloen Cycling Club as a means to promote mountain bike marathons and beach racing. [2] Those two disciplines have races where professionals and amateurs can ride together and bond. He himself was introduced to beach racing by his girlfriend Riejanne Markus, a professional cyclist. [3]
In 2021 Ockeloen followed the tyretracks of Laurens ten Dam and participated in Unbound Gravel. He had a flat tyre and a problematic reparation, early in the race. After a lot of overtaking he finished in 10th place. [4] A year later Laurens ten Dam, Thomas Dekker, Ivar Slik and Ockeloen returned for a whole month of gravel races in the US. Ockeloen won Gravel Locos solo and came third in Rule of Three. [5] [6] [7] Later that year Ockeloen won a bronze medal in the Dutch national championships gravel race. [8] These results moved Canyon to give him a professional contract for 2023. [9]
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