Jasper Stuyven

Jasper Stuyven (born 17 April 1992) is a Belgian professional racing cyclist who rides for UCI WorldTeam . He is considered to be a classics specialist, and has won several major races including the 2021 Milan–San Remo, one of cycling's monuments, the 2020 Omloop Het Nieuwsblad and the 2016 Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne. He has also had success in stage races, winning the overall classification of the 2019 Deutschland Tour as well as a stage of the 2015 Vuelta a España. Stuyven has also competed in six editions of the Tour de France, finishing on the podium several times on different stages.

Career Juniors Born in Leuven, Stuyven had a successful career as a junior rider. In 2009, at age 17, he won the UCI Junior World Road Race Championships. 2010 brought Stuyven more successes when he won one day races Paris-Roubaix Juniors and Remouchamps–Ferrières–Remouchamps.

Early years He began his professional career at age 20 for ; he earned four victories with the team, including the Volta ao Alentejo.

Trek Factory Racing (2014–present) 2014 Stuyven joined UCI WorldTeam in 2014 at the age of 22. During this season, he rode in his first grand tour, the Vuelta a España. In this race, he earned fourth place in three stages and finished ninth in the points classification.

2015 2015 brought Stuyven his biggest victory yet, when he won stage 8 of the Vuelta a España in a reduced bunch sprint. Stuyven had been involved in a crash earlier in the stage and he was forced to withdraw from the race after the stage with a broken scaphoid.

2016

In 2016, he won the Belgian one-day race Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne by breaking away solo for the last of the race. Stuyven also earned a fifth place at the E3 Harelbeke. He was named in the start list for the Tour de France where he held the polka-dot jersey as leader of the mountains classification for two days.

2017 Stuyven was part of the 5 man leading group at Paris–Roubaix, and finished fourth in the sprint finish behind Greg Van Avermaet of . He rode in the Giro d'Italia. In stage six, Stuyven finished second behind Silvan Dillier of after the pair had been part of a five-man breakaway that rode clear of the peloton for almost all of the stage. Stuyven finished the race in 98th place overall, and was second in the points classification behind Fernando Gaviria of .

2018 In 2018, Stuyven finished in the top 10 in many of the spring classics, including 4th place in Omloop Het Nieuwsblad, and 5th in Paris–Roubaix, being part of the chase group with Sep Vanmarcke and defending champion Greg Van Avermaet. In the Tour de France, he came close to winning stage 14 but was overtaken on the last climb by eventual stage winner Omar Fraile with less than to go; for his efforts, however, he walked away with the day's combativity award. In September, he first won the Grand Prix de Wallonie, before winning his home town race in Leuven, the Grote Prijs Jef Scherens.

2019 In late August, Stuyven won the Deutschland Tour after taking the overall lead on stage 3. He carried his good form into the autumn classics with several top ten results, including two podium finishes at the Grand Prix de Wallonie and the Tour de l'Eurométropole.

2020 Before the COVID-19 pandemic shut down the 2020 road cycling season, Stuyven got off to a strong start. In the opening weekend of the Belgian road cycling season, he won Omloop Het Nieuwsblad, beating fellow Belgian Yves Lampaert in a two-up sprint, before finishing fifth in Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne the day after. Once racing resumed, he bookended August with a pair of fifth-place finishes in the Circuito de Getxo on 2 August and then in the UEC European Road Championships road race on 26 August.

2021 On 20 March, Stuyven won Milan-San Remo for his first Monument victory. With three kilometers left, he attacked at the bottom of the descent of the Poggio, the last climb in the race. Many of the main pre-race favorites in the lead group were hesitant to chase him down, though Søren Kragh Andersen managed to bridge across to Stuyven in the final kilometer. With the group closing down the duo, Stuyven launched out of Kragh Andersen's slipstream in the last 200 meters. Though he was on his limit, he held on for the win on the line just ahead of the chasing group, led home by Caleb Ewan ahead of defending champion Wout van Aert.

Personal life Stuyven studied at the Sint-Pieterscollege in Leuven. Outside of cycling, he and his uncle Ivan, an experienced chocolatier, run a small chocolate boutique in Betekom named Chocolade Atelier Stuyven that opened in 2016 and often produces many cycling-themed pieces.

Major results Road

2009 1st Road race, UCI World Junior Championships 2nd Overall Giro della Toscana 3rd Overall Driedaagse van Axel 4th Overall Keizer der Juniores 2010 1st Paris–Roubaix Juniors 1st Remouchamps–Ferrières–Remouchamps 1st Stage 4 3 Giorni Orobica

4th Overall Driedaagse van Axel 1st Stage 3 2011 2nd Paris–Roubaix Espoirs 2012 1st Stage 3 Cascade Classic 7th Grand Prix de Wallonie 2013 1st Overall Volta ao Alentejo 1st Points classification 1st Young rider classification 1st Stage 2 1st Stage 1 Tour de Beauce 3rd Grote Prijs Jef Scherens 3rd Liège–Bastogne–Liège Espoirs 2015 (1 pro win) 1st Stage 8 Vuelta a España 2016 (1) 1st Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne 5th E3 Harelbeke 9th Omloop Het Nieuwsblad Tour de France Held after Stages 2–4 Combativity award Stage 2 2017 (1) 2nd Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne 3rd Road race, National Championships 3rd Overall BinckBank Tour 1st Stage 7 4th Paris–Roubaix 5th Brussels Cycling Classic 6th Japan Cup 7th Eschborn-Frankfurt – Rund um den Finanzplatz 7th EuroEyes Cyclassics 8th Omloop Het Nieuwsblad 2018 (3) 1st Grand Prix de Wallonie 1st Grote Prijs Jef Scherens 2nd Brussels Cycling Classic 3rd Road race, National Championships 3rd Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec 3rd Kampioenschap van Vlaanderen 4th Omloop Het Nieuwsblad 5th Paris–Roubaix 6th E3 Harelbeke 7th Tour of Flanders 9th Gent–Wevelgem 9th Halle–Ingooigem 10th Overall BinckBank Tour 1st Stage 4 10th Milan–San Remo 10th Dwars door Vlaanderen 10th Tour de l'Eurométropole Combativity award Stage 14 Tour de France 2019 (1) 1st Overall Deutschland Tour 2nd Grand Prix de Wallonie 3rd Tour de l'Eurométropole 4th London–Surrey Classic 5th Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec 5th Brussels Cycling Classic 6th Binche–Chimay–Binche 6th Grand Prix de Fourmies 2020 (1) 1st Omloop Het Nieuwsblad 5th Road race, UEC European Championships 5th Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne 5th Circuito de Getxo 2021 (1) 1st Milan–San Remo 3rd Paris–Tours 3rd Primus Classic 4th Road race, UCI World Championships 4th Tour of Flanders 7th Overall Benelux Tour 7th Bretagne Classic 10th Dwars door Vlaanderen 2022 4th Gent–Wevelgem 7th Paris–Roubaix 9th Overall Danmark Rundt 9th Classic Brugge–De Panne 10th Omloop Het Nieuwsblad 2023 3rd Road race, National Championships 4th Overall Renewi Tour 5th Overall Tour of Belgium 6th Road race, UCI World Championships 7th Kampioenschap van Vlaanderen 10th Milan–San Remo 10th Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne 2024 2nd E3 Saxo Classic 5th Overall Tour of Belgium 7th Omloop Het Nieuwsblad 8th Milan–San Remo 10th Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne

2025 5th Tour of Flanders 5th E3 Saxo Classic 9th Paris–Tours 10th Bretagne Classic 2026 3rd Paris–Roubaix 6th Tour of Flanders 7th Milan–San Remo 10th Gent–Wevelgem

Grand Tour general classification results timeline Grand Tour 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 Giro d'Italia — — — 98 — — — — — — 92 — 70 Tour de France — — 99 — 63 43 71 39 80 79 61 62 Vuelta a España 88 DNF — — — — — — — — — —

Classics results timeline Monument 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 Milan–San Remo — — — 3910 79 —1 —108 237 Tour of Flanders 61 32 118 517 19 264 50 26 —56 Paris–Roubaix 55 49 3945 27 NH 257 20 — 953 Liège–Bastogne–LiègeHas not contested during his career Giro di Lombardia — — DNF — — — — — — — — — — Classic 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 Omloop Het Nieuwsblad — —984 401 8310 587 48 — Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne — —12 38 DNS5 22 151010 38 — E3 Harelbeke DNF —5 DNF6 58NH 14 15 5025 16 Gent–Wevelgem — — — 469 17 38 —4 36 41 4310 Dwars door Vlaanderen 33 — 20 —10 14 NH10 — 34 DNF 18 Bretagne Classic — — 47 DNF — — —7 — — 4910 Grand Prix Cycliste de Quebec — — 50 1835 Not held 76 — — — Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal — — 12 14 14 29 62 — — — Paris–Tours 37 101 — — — — —3 — 37 —9

Major championships timeline Event 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 World Championships Road race — — 24 89 — — DNF4 476 DNF — European Championships Road raceDid not exist — — 12 —5 — — 12 — — National Championships Road race6 — DNF33 23 558 633 17 63

+ Legend — Did not compete DNF Did not finish

Gravel 2023 1st UEC European Championships 1st National Championships 2024 4th UCI World Championships