Laurens De Vreese
.JPG) De Vreese at the 2014 Four Days of Dunkirk | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Laurens De Vreese |
| Born |
29 September 1988 Ghent, Belgium |
| Height | 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in) |
| Weight | 76 kg (168 lb; 12.0 st) |
| Team information | |
| Current team | Astana |
| Discipline | Road |
| Role | Rider |
| Amateur team(s) | |
| 2009 | Profel-Prorace |
| 2010 | Beveren 2000 |
| Professional team(s) | |
| 2011–2013 | Topsport Vlaanderen–Mercator[1] |
| 2014 | Wanty–Groupe Gobert |
| 2015 | Astana |
| Major wins | |
| National Under-23 Road Race Championships (2010) | |
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Infobox last updated on 10 July 2015 | |
Laurens De Vreese (born 29 September 1988) is a Belgian professional road bicycle racer who rides for UCI Professional Continental Team Wanty–Groupe Gobert.[2] De Vreese was the 2010 Belgian national champion for the road race for riders under 23 years of age, winning the title in Hooglede.[3]
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.[4]
De Vreese left Topsport Vlaanderen–Baloise at the end of the 2013 season and joined Wanty–Groupe Gobert for the 2014 season.[2] Subsequently in August 2014 Team Astana announced that De Vreese had signed a one year deal with the squad for 2015.[5]
Palmarès
- 2009
- 1st Omloop Het Nieuwsblad Espoirs
- 2nd Flèche Ardennaise
- 2010
- 1st
National Under-23 Road Race Championships - 1st Overall Topcompetitie
- 1st Overall Triptyque Ardennaise
- 1st Zillebeke–Westouter–Zillebeke
- 2nd Omloop Het Nieuwsblad Espoirs
- 3rd Flèche Ardennaise
- 4th Overall Tour de Liège
- 1st Stage 4
- 4th Circuit du Hainaut
- 5th Provincial Under-23 Road Race Championships
- 5th Heusden Oost-Vlaanderen
- 7th UCI Road World Championships – Under-23 road race
- 10th GP 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'Eurometropole
- 9th Grand Prix of Aargau Canton
- 9th Binche–Chimay–Binche
- 10th Rund um Köln
- 10th Coppa Bernocchi
References
- ↑ "Topsport Vlaanderen-Mercator (TSV) – BEL". UCI Continental Circuits. Union Cycliste Internationale. Retrieved 8 August 2012.
- 1 2 "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.
- ↑ "De Vrees tops Eijssen for U23 title". Cycling News (Future Publishing Limited). 23 August 2010. Retrieved 8 August 2012.
- ↑ Hood, Andrew (22 April 2012). "Valverde, others disqualified for steering off Liege route". VeloNews (Competitor Group, Inc.). Retrieved 8 August 2012.
- ↑ "2015 Contract - Laurens De Vreese". Astana Pro Team. 30 August 2014. Retrieved 5 October 2014.
External links
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- Official website
- Topsport Vlaanderen-Mercator profile
- Laurens De Vreese profile at Cycling Archives
- Cycling Quotient profile