Personal information | |
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Full name | Wesley Kreder |
Born | Leiden, Netherlands | 4 November 1990
Height | 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) |
Weight | 70 kg (154 lb; 11 st 0 lb) |
Team information | |
Current team | Retired |
Disciplines |
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Role | Rider |
Amateur teams | |
2008 | DGR Cycling Team |
2009 | Van Vliet–EBH Elshof |
2010–2012 | Rabobank Continental Team |
2012 | Vacansoleil–DCM (stagiaire) |
Professional teams | |
2013 | Vacansoleil–DCM |
2014 | Wanty–Groupe Gobert |
2015–2016 | Team Roompot |
2017–2020 | Wanty–Groupe Gobert [1] [2] |
2021 | Intermarché–Wanty–Gobert Matériaux [3] |
2022–2023 | Cofidis [4] |
Major wins | |
Tour de Vendée (2012) |
Wesley Kreder (born 4 November 1990) is a Dutch former road racing cyclist, who competed as a professional from 2013 to 2023.
Born in Leiden, Kreder has competed as a professional since the middle of the 2012 season, [5] joining the Vacansoleil–DCM team as a stagiaire, having been a member of the Rabobank Continental Team from 2010 onwards. Kreder achieved his first professional victory in October 2012, making a late-race attack at the Tour de Vendée, and held off the field by two seconds. [6] Kreder remained with the team full-time into the 2013 season. [7]
Kreder joined Wanty–Groupe Gobert for the 2014 season, after his previous team – Vacansoleil–DCM [8] – folded at the end of the 2013 season. [9] In September 2014 it was announced that Wesley, Michel and Raymond Kreder would sign with the new Team Roompot squad for 2015. [10]
Wesley's brother Dennis, and cousins Michel and Raymond are all professional cyclists; Dennis was a team-mate of Wesley's at Van Vliet–EBH Elshof in 2009, while Michel and Raymond were team-mates at Roompot–Oranje Peloton in 2015 and 2016. [10]
Grand Tour | 2021 | 2022 |
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Giro d'Italia | 128 | 139 |
Tour de France | — | — |
Vuelta a España | 110 | — |
— | Did not compete |
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IP | In progress |
DNF | Did not finish |
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