(1986-02-14) 14 February 1986 (age 38) Oudenaarde, Flanders, Belgium
Height
1.77 m (5 ft 10 in)
Weight
67 kg (148 lb; 10.6 st)
Team information
Current team
Retired
Discipline
Road
Role
Rider
Rider type
Puncheur
Amateur teams
2006–2008
Beveren 2000
2008
Topsport Vlaanderen (stagiaire)
Professional teams
2009
Topsport Vlaanderen–Mercator
2010–2011
Omega Pharma–Lotto
2012–2013
RadioShack–Nissan[1]
2014
Omega Pharma–Quick-Step
2015–2018
AG2R La Mondiale
2019
Team Sunweb[2]
2020–2022
Circus–Wanty Gobert[3][4]
Major wins
Grand Tours
Tour de France
1 individual stage (2013)
One-day races and Classics
Gran Piemonte (2015)
Giro dell'Emilia (2015)
Jan Bakelants (born 14 February 1986) is a Belgian former professional road racing cyclist, who competed as a professional from 2009 to 2022.
^"RadioShack-Nissan-Trek announces lineup for 2012". VeloNews. Competitor Group, Inc. 5 December 2011. Retrieved 17 January 2012.
^"Team Sunweb confirm 2019 men's and women's rosters". Cyclingnews.com. Immediate Media Company. 23 November 2018. Retrieved 5 January 2019.
^"Bakelants signs with Circus-Wanty Gobert-Tormans". Cyclingnews.com. Future plc. 6 January 2020. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
^"Intermarché - Wanty - Gobert Matériaux". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 3 January 2021. Retrieved 3 January 2021.
to the hospital in Como. The crash left Bakelants 1 centimetre (0.39 inches) shorter. After his crash, Bakelants spoke out about safety standards in cycling...
yellow jersey after winning stage one. He lost the lead the next day to JanBakelants of RadioShack–Leopard, who managed to obtain a one-second lead from...
Ketele, track cyclist, Madison World Champion (b. 1985) JanBakelants, cyclist (b. 1986) Jan Dequeker, professor, humanitarian and philanthropist (b....
classification by a margin of 7 min 39 s, the largest winning margin since Jan Ullrich in the 1997 Tour. Second and third respectively were Péraud and Pinot...
to enter. Stage two's finish line was on the artificial island of Neeltje Jans although it was officially named as the wider region of Zeeland. "Teams –...
did not win). Three cyclists (Jean Robic in 1947, Charly Gaul in 1958 and Jan Janssen in 1968) have won the Tour de France with only two yellow jerseys...
Tour de France. He lost the yellow jersey the next day, however, to JanBakelants of RadioShack–Leopard. Kittel was not done in this Tour, though, he...
Tryptique des Monts et Chateaux over multiple strong time trialists in JanBakelants and Jan Ghyselinck. In his 2nd year in the Under-23 ranks, Vermote kept...
Vandousselaere 2013 Stijn Devolder (3) Gianni Meersman JanBakelants 2014 Jens Debusschere Roy Jans Tom Boonen 2015 Preben Van Hecke Jürgen Roelandts Greg...
or puncheur were the favourites for the victory. The race was won by JanBakelants (AG2R La Mondiale), who attacked in the final 7 kilometres (4.3 mi)...
escapees, followed by JanBakelants (AG2R La Mondiale); they opened a gap, holding off their former breakaway companions. Bakelants led for the last few...
knee when he was launched over the guardrail and fell into a ravine. JanBakelants (AG2R La Mondiale) remained hospitalised in Como with seven broken ribs...
to chase Wellens down. Geschke and Van Avermaet rode together, while JanBakelants (AG2R La Mondiale) and Tom-Jelte Slagter (Cannondale–Garmin) attacked...
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