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Full name | Reinardt Janse van Rensburg | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nickname | Reinie | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Virginia, South Africa | 3 February 1989|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.81 m (5 ft 11+1⁄2 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 74 kg (163 lb; 11 st 9 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Current team | China Glory–Mentech Continental Cycling Team | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Discipline | Road | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Role | Rider | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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2010–2012 | MTN–Energade | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2013–2014 | Argos–Shimano | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2015–2021 | MTN–Qhubeka [1] [2] [3] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2022 | Lotto–Soudal [4] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2023 | Denver Disruptors [5] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2024– | China Glory–Mentech Continental Cycling Team | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Reinardt Janse van Rensburg (born 3 February 1989) is a South African professional road bicycle racer, who currently rides for UCI Continental team China Glory–Mentech Continental Cycling Team. A two-time winner of the South African National Road Race Championships, Janse van Rensburg has competed professionally since 2010, having rode for Giant–Shimano (2013–2014), [6] Team Qhubeka NextHash (2010–2012 and 2015–2021), and Lotto–Soudal (2022).
Born in Virginia, Free State, Janse van Rensburg competed with MTN–Energade from 2010 to 2012. [7]
Janse van Rensburg left MTN–Qhubeka at the end of the 2012 season, and joined Argos–Shimano for the 2013 season. [6] Subsequently, it was announced that he would be rejoining MTN–Qhubeka for 2015. [8] He was named in the start list for the 2015 Tour de France [9] and the start list for the 2016 Tour de France. [10]
He is not related to fellow professional cyclist and former teammate Jacques Janse van Rensburg.
Source: [11]
Grand Tour | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 |
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![]() | Has not contested during career | |||||||||
![]() | — | — | 96 | 115 | 118 | 110 | 124 | — | — | 133 |
![]() | 98 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 103 | DNF | — |
— | Did not compete |
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DNF | Did not finish |
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