Kris Boeckmans

Kris Boeckmans (born 13 February 1987) is a Belgian former professional road bicycle racer, who rode professionally between 2010 and 2020, for the , , and teams.

Career Born in Malle, Boeckmans began competing as a professional in the second half of the 2009 season, competing for the team as a stagiaire. He joined for the start of the 2010 season, remaining with the team until the end of 2011, when he joined the squad for the 2012 season. Boeckmans made his Grand Tour début at the 2012 Tour de France, where he was earmarked as one of the squad's main sprint contenders, along with Kenny van Hummel; Boeckmans took his first top ten placing on stage 4, when he finished eighth on the stage.

After two years with , Boeckemans left the team at the end of the 2013 season, to join . However, on the eighth stage, he was involved in a large crash: he was drinking from a bidon and hit a hole in the road, falling hard to the ground. According to Cyclingnews.com, he suffered "facial trauma and fractures, a concussion, broken ribs and a punctured lung" and was placed into an induced coma. He was kept in the coma for over a week and was eventually discharged around four weeks after the crash, following major facial surgery in Belgium.

Major results

2007 2nd Zellik–Galmaarden 2008 1st GP Stad Vilvoorde 1st Stage 1b Vuelta a Navarra 5th Overall Tour de Berlin 1st Stage 1 7th ZLM Tour 9th Grand Prix de Waregem 10th Kattekoers 2009

1st Stage 2b 1st Schaal Sels 1st Stage 2 Vuelta a Navarra 2nd Overall Ronde van Antwerpen 1st Stages 1a (ITT) & 3 2nd Brussel–Zepperen 2nd Paris–Tours Espoirs 4th GP Raymond Impanis 5th Kattekoers 2010 1st Stage 5 Ster Elektrotoer 2nd Overall Driedaagse van West-Vlaanderen 1st Stage 3 2nd Nokere Koerse 7th Scheldeprijs 8th Omloop van het Waasland 8th Nationale Sluitingsprijs 9th Wanzele-Lede 10th Dwars door Drenthe 10th Grand Prix de Denain 2011 3rd Münsterland Giro 4th Puivelde Koerse 6th Sparkassen Giro Bochum 9th Omloop Gemeente Melle 2012 2nd Le Samyn 2nd Nokere Koerse 2013 2nd Le Samyn 5th Schaal Sels 6th Halle–Ingooigem 2014 2nd Halle–Ingooigem 2015

1st Stages 1 & 3

1st Stage 2 1st Le Samyn 1st Nokere Koerse 2nd Halle–Ingooigem 3rd Overall Étoile de Bessèges 1st Stage 1 2016 5th Kampioenschap van Vlaanderen 2018 5th Halle–Ingooigem 2019 6th Scheldeprijs

Grand Tour general classification results timeline