Steven de Jongh

Steven de Jongh (born 25 November 1973) is a Dutch former road bicycle racer.

Biography de Jongh made his professional debut in 1995 at TVM team where he stayed until 1999. From 2000 to 2005 he was part of , while he made the move to in 2006. De Jongh retired as a rider after the 2009 season.

He was a Directeur sportif at Team Sky for three years, leaving in October 2012 after admitting he had taken illegal substances earlier in his career. In January 2013 he joined Team Saxo-Tinkoff as a sports director. After the Tinkoff team announced their disbanding at the conclusion of the 2016 season, in September 2016 confirmed that de Jongh would join them from 2017, along with Tinkoff riders Alberto Contador and Jesús Hernández.

On October 15, 2018, de Jongh was reported missing by his wife after he did not return from a training ride near his home in Girona, Spain. After she posted to Twitter to request help finding him, others noticed that his cycling computer had automatically uploaded his route to the social networking site Strava. Search efforts were then focused on the area near the end of the route, and de Jongh was found lying unconscious in a ravine near the road. He suffered a severe concussion but was not otherwise harmed. De Jongh later said that he had no memory of the crash and the cause was unknown.

Major results

1992 3rd Dorpenomloop Rucphen 1994 1st Ronde van Zuid-Holland 1st Dokkum Woudenomloop 1st Stage 11 Commonwealth Bank Classic 1st Stage 2 Tour du Poitou-Charentes 1st Stage 6 Olympia's Tour 1st Stage 1 OZ Wielerweekend 3rd Ster van Zwolle 1995

1st PWZ Zuidenveld Tour 1st Grand Prix de Waregem 1st Stage 1 Tour de Pologne 1st Stages 1, 9 & 10 Tour of Austria 2nd Ster van Zwolle 2nd Omloop der Kempen 3rd Ronde van Drenthe 1996 4th HEW Cyclassics 8th Kampioenschap van Vlaanderen 9th Overall Étoile de Bessèges 9th Grand Prix d'Ouverture La Marseillaise 1997 1st Stage 3 Vuelta a Burgos 1st Stage 2 Tour de l'Avenir 1st Stage 3 Boland Bank Tour 4th Overall Tour of Sweden 1998 1st Overall Tour of Sweden 1st Stage 2 1st Stage 4 Étoile de Bessèges 3rd Nationale Sluitingprijs 1999 1st Stage 7 Tirreno–Adriatico 1st Stage 4 Vuelta a Castilla y León 1st Stage 2 Giro della Provincia di Lucca 2nd Nationale Sluitingprijs 3rd Overall Guldensporentweedaagse 3rd Kampioenschap van Vlaanderen 7th Delta Profronde 8th Grand Prix d'Isbergues 2000 1st Henk Vos Memorial 1st Nationale Sluitingsprijs 1st Schaal Sels 1st Veenendaal–Veenendaal 4th Trofeo Cala Millor-Cala Bona 7th Kampioenschap van Vlaanderen 2001 1st Veenendaal–Veenendaal 3rd Overall Guldensporentweedaagse 2002 1st Schaal Sels 1st Rund um den Flughafen Köln-Bonn 1st Stages 1b & 2 Tour of Sweden 1st Stage 2 Ronde van Nederland 2nd Ronde van Midden-Zeeland 3rd Nokere-Koerse 4th Road race, National Road Championships 6th Tour Beneden-Maas 6th Trofeo Cala Millor-Cala Bona 8th Henk Vos Memorial 2003 1st Schaal Sels 1st E3 Prijs Vlaanderen 1st Stage 3a Three Days of De Panne 8th GP Rudy Dhaenens 2004 1st Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne 2nd Overall Circuit Franco-Belge 2nd Nationale Sluitingprijs 4th E3 Prijs Vlaanderen 4th Giro del Piemonte 10th Ronde van Midden-Zeeland 2005 1st Nokere Koerse 2nd Road race, National Road Championships 2nd Giro del Piemonte 2nd Noord-Nederland Tour 2nd Tour de Rijke 3rd Omloop Het Volk 3rd Trofeo Manacor 4th GP Stad Zottegem 7th Veenendaal–Veenendaal 10th Overall Ster Elektrotoer 2006 1st Ronde van Midden-Zeeland 2nd Scheldeprijs 2nd Kampioenschap van Vlaanderen 3rd Paris–Brussels 4th Veenendaal–Veenendaal 6th Overall Three Days of De Panne 1st Stage 3 7th Overall Tour of Qatar 8th Tour de Rijke 9th Overall Tour of Belgium 10th Giro della Provincia di Lucca 2007 1st GP Briek Schotte 1st Omloop van het Houtland 1st Omloop Wase Scheldeboorden 3rd Overall Tour of Qatar 1st Stage 1 3rd Memorial Rik Van Steenbergen 4th Paris–Tours 5th GP Ouest–France 5th Paris–Brussels 9th Tour de Rijke 10th Omloop Het Volk 2008 1st Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne 1st Tour de Rijke 2nd Overall Tour of Qatar 1st Stage 1 (TTT) 2nd Dwars door Vlaanderen 3rd Road race, National Road Championships 10th Memorial Rik Van Steenbergen 2009 1st Kampioenschap van Vlaanderen 3rd Memorial Rik Van Steenbergen 3rd Dutch Food Valley Classic 5th Overall Circuit Franco-Belge 9th Tour de Rijke