Laurens De Vreese

Laurens De Vreese
De Vreese at the 2014 Four Days of Dunkirk
Personal information
Full nameLaurens De Vreese
Born (1988-09-29) 29 September 1988 (age 36)
Aalst, Belgium
Height1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)
Weight76 kg (168 lb; 12.0 st)
Team information
Current teamRetired
DisciplineRoad
RoleRider
Amateur teams
2009Profel Continental Team
2010Beveren 2000
Professional teams
2011–2013Topsport Vlaanderen–Mercator[1]
2014Wanty–Groupe Gobert
2015–2020Astana[2][3]
2021Alpecin–Fenix

Laurens De Vreese (born 29 September 1988) is a Belgian former professional road bicycle racer who last rode for UCI ProTeam Alpecin–Fenix.[4] De Vreese was the 2010 Belgian national champion for the road race for riders under 23 years of age, winning the title in Hooglede.[5]

Career

Born in Ghent, De Vreese has competed as a professional since the start of the 2011 season, riding as a member of the Topsport Vlaanderen–Mercator squad. At the 2012 running of Liège–Bastogne–Liège, De Vreese was one of a number of riders to be disqualified from the event as a result of taking a short-cut.[6]

De Vreese left Topsport Vlaanderen–Baloise at the end of the 2013 season and joined Wanty–Groupe Gobert for the 2014 season.[7] Subsequently, in August 2014, Astana announced that De Vreese had signed a one-year deal with the squad for 2015.[8] He was named in the startlist for the 2017 Vuelta a España.[9]

Major results

2009
1st Omloop Het Nieuwsblad U23
2nd Flèche Ardennaise
2010
1st Road race, National Under-23 Road Championships
1st Overall Topcompetitie
1st Overall Triptyque Ardennaise
1st Zillebeke–Westouter–Zillebeke
2nd Omloop Het Nieuwsblad U23
3rd Flèche Ardennaise
4th Overall Tour de Liège
1st Stage 4
4th Circuit de Wallonie
5th Heusden Oost-Vlaanderen
7th Road race, UCI Under-23 Road World Championships
10th Grote Prijs Stad Geel
2011
3rd GP Paul Borremans
3rd Heusden Oost-Vlaanderen
5th Halle–Ingooigem
7th GP José Dubois
10th Overall Tour de Wallonie-Picarde
2012
1st Combativity classification Eneco Tour
2nd Paris–Tours
4th GP Wanzele
2013
1st Combativity classification Tour of Belgium
1st Combativity classification Eneco Tour
6th Overall Tour de l'Eurométropole
9th Grand Prix of Aargau Canton
9th Binche–Chimay–Binche
10th Rund um Köln
10th Coppa Bernocchi
2014
3rd Gooikse Pijl
8th Grote Prijs Jef Scherens
2016
8th Overall Danmark Rundt

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

Grand Tour 2017
A pink jersey Giro d'Italia —
A yellow jersey Tour de France —
A red jersey Vuelta a España 122
Legend
— Did not compete
DNF Did not finish

References

  1. ^ "Topsport Vlaanderen-Mercator (TSV) – BEL". UCI Continental Circuits. Union Cycliste Internationale. Retrieved 8 August 2012.
  2. ^ "Astana Pro Team presented renewed roster for 2019". Astana. Apgrade. 16 December 2018. Retrieved 1 January 2019.
  3. ^ "Astana Pro Team". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 1 January 2020. Retrieved 1 January 2020.
  4. ^ "Cyclisme: Laurens De Vreese quitte Astana pour Alpecin-Fenix" [Cycling: Laurens De Vreese quits Astana for Alpecin-Fenix]. Le Soir (in French). Groupe Rossel. Belga. 17 December 2020. Retrieved 18 December 2020.
  5. ^ "De Vrees tops Eijssen for U23 title". Cycling News. Future Publishing Limited. 23 August 2010. Retrieved 8 August 2012.
  6. ^ Hood, Andrew (22 April 2012). "Valverde, others disqualified for steering off Liege route". VeloNews. Competitor Group, Inc. Retrieved 8 August 2012.
  7. ^ "De Vreese passe chez Wanty en 2014" [De Vreese going on at Wanty in 2014]. RTBF.be (in French). Radio Télévision Belge Francophone. 6 October 2013. Retrieved 10 December 2013.
  8. ^ "2015 Contract - Laurens De Vreese". Astana Pro Team. 30 August 2014. Archived from the original on 13 October 2014. Retrieved 5 October 2014.
  9. ^ "2017 > 72nd Vuelta a España > Startlist". ProCyclingStats. Retrieved 17 August 2017.
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