Johan Jacobs

Johan Jacobs (born 1 March 1997) is a Swiss road and cyclo-cross cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam .

Career Jacobs early career started in cyclo-cross, winning multiple national titles and world cup races. In 2015 Jacobs won the eighth race in the Superprestige at Middelkerke series. This stopped Eli Iserbyt from winning every race in the series. At the Junior Koppenbergcross Jacobs attacked from the start and held off everyone for the entire race forcing Iserbyt and Thijs Wolsink to work together.

Jacobs elected not to ride cyclo-cross race in his final year as an Under-23 instead wanting to focus on road cycling, this put him into the spotlight for a contract with . He was the only rider able to follow the winning move by Tom Pidcock in the Paris–Roubaix Espoirs which earned him a second place. He did not race again in the 2021 season.

extended Jacobs contract by one year till the end of 2024. Jacobs elected to not race cyclo-cross over the 2023 winter so that he would have more time to prepare for the 2024 road season.

Major results Sources:

Cyclo-cross

2013–2014 1st National Junior Championships 2nd Overall Junior Superprestige 1st Middelkerke 2nd Hoogstraten 2014–2015 1st National Junior Championships Junior BPost Bank Trophy 1st Koppenbergcross 1st GP Sven Nys 1st Krawatencross 2nd Overall UCI Junior World Cup 1st Namur 3rd Valkenburg 2nd Overall Junior Superprestige 1st Middelkerke 2nd Zonhoven 2nd Ruddervoorde 2nd Hoogstraten 3rd Gieten 3rd Diegem

2015–2016 3rd National Under-23 Championships 2016–2017 1st National Under-23 Championships 2017–2018 2nd National Under-23 Championships National Trophy Series 3rd Ipswich

Road 2019 1st Stage 2 (TTT) Tour de l'Avenir 2nd Paris–Roubaix Espoirs 7th Ronde van Vlaanderen Beloften 8th Sundvolden GP 2020 4th Road race, National Championships 2021 3rd Road race, National Championships

Grand Tour general classification results timeline Grand Tour 2021 Giro d'Italia — Tour de France — Vuelta a España DNF

+ Legend — Did not compete DNF Did not finish