Dries Devenyns

Dries Devenyns
Devenyns in 2015.
Personal information
Full nameDries Devenyns
Born (1983-07-22) 22 July 1983 (age 41)
Leuven, Belgium
Height1.77 m (5 ft 9+1⁄2 in)[1]
Weight65 kg (143 lb; 10 st 3 lb)[1]
Team information
Current teamSoudal–Quick-Step
DisciplineRoad
RoleRider
Rider type
  • Puncheur
  • Domestique
Amateur team
2006Davitamon–Lotto (stagiaire)
Professional teams
2007–2008Predictor–Lotto
2009–2013Quick-Step
2014Giant–Shimano[2]
2015–2016IAM Cycling
2017–2023Quick-Step Floors[3]
Major wins
Stage races
Tour of Belgium (2016)
Tour de Wallonie (2016)

One-day races and Classics

Great Ocean Road Race (2020)

Dries Devenyns (born 22 July 1983) is a Belgian retired road bicycle racer, who rode for UCI WorldTeam Soudal–Quick-Step.[4] He retired at the end of 2023.


Career

Devenyns left Omega Pharma–Quick-Step at the end of the 2013 season,[5] after five seasons with the squad, and joined Giant-Shimano for 2014.[2] He moved to the team IAM Cycling for the 2015 and 2016 seasons, and joined Quick-Step Floors in 2017, retiring in 2023. [6]

Major results

2005
1st Road race, National Under-23 Road Championships
2006
National Amateur Road Championships
1st Time trial
2nd Road race
1st Overall Tour de Bretagne
1st Young rider classification
1st Stages 4 & 5 (ITT)
4th Flèche Ardennaise
5th Overall Tour des Pyrénées
1st Prologue
8th De Vlaamse Pijl
10th Overall Le Triptyque des Monts et Châteaux
2008
8th Overall Tour of Turkey
8th Overall Ster Elektrotoer
10th Overall Delta Tour Zeeland
2009 (1 pro win)
1st Stage 5 Tour of Austria
5th Overall Tour du Poitou-Charentes
7th Overall Tour de Wallonie
9th Giro del Piemonte
2010
5th Giro del Piemonte
9th Overall Tour of the Basque Country
2011
4th Clásica de San Sebastián
6th Brabantse Pijl
7th Overall Tour of Oman
8th Overall Eneco Tour
10th Trofeo Mallorca
10th Trofeo Deià
2012
6th Grote Prijs Jef Scherens
8th Brabantse Pijl
2013
5th Overall Tour of Austria
10th Overall Tour de l'Ain
2014
8th Omloop Het Nieuwsblad
2015
6th Overall Tour de l'Eurométropole
10th Brabantse Pijl
2016 (5)
1st Overall Tour of Belgium
1st Stage 2
1st Overall Tour de Wallonie
1st Stage 5
1st Grand Prix La Marseillaise
6th Overall Étoile de Bessèges
10th Clásica de San Sebastián
2017
3rd Grand Prix Pino Cerami
5th Time trial, National Road Championships
7th Brabantse Pijl
2018
4th Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race
5th Overall Tour Down Under
6th Overall Tour of Oman
9th Overall Tour of Guangxi
2019
10th Overall Tour Down Under
2020 (1)
1st Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race
7th Gran Piemonte
10th Brabantse Pijl

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

Grand Tour 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023
A pink jersey Giro d'Italia 117 95 — — — — — — — 89 — — — — — —
A yellow jersey Tour de France — — 144 46 68 — DNF — — — — 97 90 135 — 119
A gold jersey/A red jersey Vuelta a España — — — — — — — — 101 — 94 — — — —
Legend
— Did not compete
DNF Did not finish

References

  1. ^ a b "Dries Devenyns, Deceuninck – Quick-Step Cycling team". Archived from the original on 15 July 2019. Retrieved 15 July 2019.
  2. ^ a b "Devenyns to Argos, G. Izagirre and Malori to Movistar". Cyclingnews.com. 19 September 2013. Retrieved 1 November 2013.
  3. ^ Ryan, Barry (31 December 2019). "2020 Team Preview: Deceuninck-QuickStep". Cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 2 January 2020.
  4. ^ "Deceuninck – Quick-Step". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 1 January 2021. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
  5. ^ "Omega Pharma-Quick-Step Cycling Team (OPQ) – BEL". UCI World Tour. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 1 January 2014. Retrieved 8 January 2013.
  6. ^ "Dries Devenyns". www.procyclingstats.com. Retrieved 21 October 2024.

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