Tim Wellens

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Tim Wellens
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Wellens at the 2014 Ronde van Limburg
Personal information
Full nameTim Wellens
Born (1991-05-10) 10 May 1991 (age 32)
Sint-Truiden, Flanders, Belgium
Height1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Weight65 kg (143 lb)
Team information
Current team UAE Team Emirates
DisciplinesRoad
RoleRider
Rider typeAll-rounder
Amateur teams
2009Avia Cycling Team
2010–2012 Davo–Lotto
Professional teams
2012–2022 Lotto–Belisol [1] [2] [3]
2023– UAE Team Emirates
Major wins
Grand Tours
Giro d'Italia
2 individual stages (2016, 2018)
Vuelta a España
2 individual stages (2020)

Stage races

Benelux Tour (2014, 2015, 2023)
Tour de Pologne (2016)
Tour of Guangxi (2017)
Vuelta a Andalucía (2018)
Tour de Wallonie (2018)

One-day races and Classics

GP de Montréal (2015)
Brabantse Pijl (2018)

Tim Wellens (born 10 May 1991) is a Belgian professional road cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam UAE Team Emirates. [4] He is the son of former racing cyclist Leo Wellens and the nephew of cyclists Paul and Johan Wellens. [5]

Contents

Career

Born in Sint-Truiden, Wellens has competed as a professional since the middle of the 2012 season, [6] joining the Lotto–Belisol team after three seasons with the squad's development team.

2012 season

Wellens made his début with the team at the GP José Dubois, where he finished eighth; he later made his first appearances on the UCI World Tour, by competing in the Canadian pair of races in Quebec, and Montreal attempting to bridge to each race's breakaway during the respective events. [7] [8] Wellens performed strongly in the season-ending Tour of Beijing, finishing each of the race's stages inside the top 25 placings – taking a best of fifth on the final stage  – en route to a final overall placing of tenth, [9] [10] and second to Saxo Bank–Tinkoff Bank rider Rafał Majka in the young rider classification. [11]

2014 season

Wellens at the 2014 Giro d'Italia 2014 Giro d'Italia, tim wellens (17164445594).jpg
Wellens at the 2014 Giro d'Italia

In August 2014, Wellens won Stage 6 in the Eneco Tour with a solo breakaway. [12] The time he gained on this stage meant he ultimately won the race overall.

2015 season

He was named in the start list for the Tour de France. [13] At the Eneco Tour, on Stage 6 Wellens attacked on the Côte Saint-Roch, then won nine seconds in the sprints in the golden kilometre. The main group was not able to chase Wellens down and his lead extended during the downhill run into Houffalize; he won the stage by 49 seconds ahead of Greg Van Avermaet, with Simon Geschke third. Wellens moved into the overall lead, 1' 03" ahead of Van Avermaet, with Wilco Kelderman dropping to third. [14] Wellens defended his lead on the final stage to win his second successive Eneco Tour.

2016 season

At the Giro d'Italia, Wellens won Stage 6 after joining the successful breakaway partway through the stage. In July 2016, Wellens won Stage 5 of the Tour de Pologne with a solo breakaway in a rain soaked stage in which 85 riders abandoned. [15] This gave him a lead of over 4 minutes in the general classification, which he successfully defended to the end of the race.

2017 season

Wellens abandoned Stage 15 of the Tour de France because of heat and pollen allergies which he refused to treat with a therapeutic use exemption (TUE), which he does not approve to use. [16] Despite having asthma, Wellens does not use an inhaler and also criticised Chris Froome during his salbutamol case.

2018 season

Wellens' first victory in 2018 came at the Trofeo Serra de Tramuntana where he won the race for a second year in a row. [17] At the Vuelta a Andalucía, Wellens won stage 4 and took the lead of the overall standings, by beating Mikel Landa on the cobbled climb of Alcalá de los Gazules. [18]

2020 season

In October 2020, he was named in the startlist for the Vuelta a España. [19] He won two stages during the race, and finished second to Guillaume Martin in the mountains classification. [20] [21]

2021 season

In February 2021, he won stage 3 of the Étoile de Bessèges and finished first in the general classification. [22]

Major results

2008
1st MaillotBelgica.PNG National Junior XC MTB Championships
4th Overall Liège–La Gleize
2009
2nd Overall Tour d'Istrie
1st Stage 1
3rd Overall Tre Giorni Orobica
5th Road race, National Junior Road Championships
5th Overall Liège–La Gleize
1st Stage 4
2010
7th Overall Tour des Pays de Savoie
2011
5th Time trial, National Under-23 Road Championships
5th Overall Tour des Pays de Savoie
2012
2nd Overall Toscana-Terra di Ciclismo
2nd Overall Vuelta a Navarra
4th Circuit de Wallonie
8th Overall Circuit des Ardennes
1st Jersey white.svg Young rider classification
10th Overall Tour de l'Avenir
10th Overall Tour of Beijing
2013
8th Overall Tour de Wallonie
2014 (2 pro wins)
1st Jersey white.svg Overall Eneco Tour
1st Stage 6
2nd Time trial, National Road Championships
2nd Overall Ster ZLM Toer
4th Giro di Lombardia
6th GP Ouest–France
2015 (3)
1st Jersey white.svg Overall Eneco Tour
1st Stage 6
1st Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal
2nd Trofeo Serra de Tramuntana
10th Overall Paris–Nice
10th Trofeo Andratx–Mirador d'es Colomer
2016 (4)
1st Jersey yellow.svg Overall Tour de Pologne
1st Jersey violet.svg Mountains classification
1st Stage 5
Giro d'Italia
1st Stage 6
Held Jersey blue.svg after Stages 7–9
1st Stage 7 Paris–Nice
2nd Road race, National Road Championships
10th Trofeo Serra de Tramuntana
10th Amstel Gold Race
2017 (7)
1st Jersey red.svg Overall Tour of Guangxi
1st Stage 4
1st Grand Prix de Wallonie
1st Trofeo Serra de Tramuntana
1st Trofeo Pollenca–Port de Andratx
1st Stage 5 Vuelta a Andalucía
2nd Overall BinckBank Tour
1st Stage 6
3rd Strade Bianche
4th Brabantse Pijl
5th Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec
9th Grote Prijs Jef Scherens
2018 (7)
1st Jersey yellow.svg Overall Tour de Wallonie
1st Stage 2
1st Jersey red.svg Overall Vuelta a Andalucía
1st Stage 4
1st Brabantse Pijl
1st Trofeo Serra de Tramuntana
1st Stage 4 Giro d'Italia
3rd Overall BinckBank Tour
3rd Bretagne Classic
5th Overall Paris–Nice
1st Jersey green.svg Points classification
5th Giro di Lombardia
6th Amstel Gold Race
7th La Flèche Wallonne
7th Trofeo Lloseta–Andratx
2019 (5)
1st Trofeo Serra de Tramuntana
2nd Trofeo Andratx–Lloseta
3rd Overall BinckBank Tour
1st Stage 4
3rd Overall Tour of Belgium
1st Stage 3 (ITT)
3rd Omloop Het Nieuwsblad
3rd Brabantse Pijl
4th Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal
5th Trofeo Campos, Porreres, Felanitx, Ses Salines
8th Bretagne Classic
9th Overall Vuelta a Andalucía
1st Jersey white.svg Points classification
1st Stages 1 & 3 (ITT)
9th Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec
10th Strade Bianche
10th Tre Valli Varesine
Tour de France
Held Jersey polkadot.svg after Stages 3–17
Jersey red number.svg Combativity award Stages 3 & 6
2020 (2)
Vuelta a España
1st Stages 5 & 14
Held Jersey blue polkadot.svg after Stages 5–6
4th Overall Tour de Luxembourg
5th Overall Volta ao Algarve
2021 (2)
1st Jersey orange.svg Overall Étoile de Bessèges
1st Stage 3
4th Overall Benelux Tour
6th Overall Tour de Pologne
6th Grand Prix La Marseillaise
7th Overall Tirreno–Adriatico
2022 (2)
1st Trofeo Serra de Tramuntana
2nd Overall Tour des Alpes-Maritimes et du Var
1st Stage 2
2nd Overall Tour of Belgium
2nd Clásica Jaén Paraíso Interior
4th Trofeo Calvià
8th Strade Bianche
8th Trofeo Pollença–Port d'Andratx
9th Brabantse Pijl
9th Japan Cup
2023 (2)
1st MaillotAzul.PNG Overall Renewi Tour
1st Stage 3 Vuelta a Andalucía
3rd Clásica Jaén Paraíso Interior
5th Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne
6th Vuelta a Murcia

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

Grand Tour 201420152016201720182019202020212022
Jersey pink.svg Giro d'Italia 54 — 96 — DNF ————
Jersey yellow.svg Tour de France — 129 — DNF — 94 —— DNF
Jersey red.svg Vuelta a España —————— 78 ——

Classics results timeline

Monument201220132014201520162017201820192020202120222023
Milan–San Remo ——— 15 — 18 ——— 78 — 67
Tour of Flanders ——————— 34 DNF 25 43 DNF
Paris–Roubaix Has not contested during his career
Liège–Bastogne–Liège — DNF 43 93 48 35 16 11 33 24 86 —
Giro di Lombardia 50 — 4 71 DNF 20 5 29 OTL 82 58
Classic201220132014201520162017201820192020202120222023
Omloop Het Nieuwsblad —————— 69 3 28 24 — 26
Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne ————————— 75 — 5
Strade Bianche ————— 3 — 10 — 13 8 13
Brabantse Pijl — 19 —— 38 4 1 3 49 — 9 —
Amstel Gold Race —— 68 19 10 42 6 DNF NH 29 20 —
La Flèche Wallonne — 139 61 31 65 18 7 17 21 36 23 —
Clásica de San Sebastián — 102 44 31 13 DNF DNF DNF NH——
Bretagne Classic — 115 6 110 96 83 3 8 ———
Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec DNF 51 108 120 14 5 28 9 Not held—
Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal 34 20 24 1 43 12 21 4 —
Legend
—Did not compete
DNF Did not finish
OTLOutside time limit
NHNot held

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