Personal information | |
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Born | Roeselare, West Flanders, Belgium | 11 May 1989
Height | 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) |
Weight | 77 kg (170 lb) |
Team information | |
Current team | Retired |
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] |
2016–2020 | Lotto–Soudal [3] [4] |
2021–2023 | Cofidis [5] |
Major wins | |
Grand Tours
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Jelle Wallays (born 11 May 1989) is a Belgian former road cyclist, who competed as a professional from 2011 to 2023.
Jelle Wallays is the brother and nephew of racing cyclists Jens Wallays and Luc Wallays. [6] 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. [7] 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. [8]
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. [9]
In October 2020, Wallays signed with the Cofidis team for the 2021 season. [10]
Grand Tour | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 |
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Giro d'Italia | Has not contested during his career | |||||||
Tour de France | — | — | — | — | — | 131 | — | — |
Vuelta a España | 92 | 151 | 143 | 144 | — | — | — |
— | Did not compete |
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DNF | Did not finish |
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