Tibor Del Grosso

Tibor Del Grosso (born 27 July 2003) is a Dutch cyclo-cross, road and mountain bike cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam . He won the gold medal in the men's under-23 race at the 2024 UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships and the silver medal in the same event at the 2023 UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships. He also won the gold medal in the team relay at the 2023 World Championships. He occasionally competes in cross-country mountain biking, having won the 2022 national under-23 championships.

Biography As a junior (under-19), Del Grosso achieved international results in both road cycling and cyclo-cross. In 2020, he became the Dutch national junior cyclo-cross champion. In 2021, he focused almost exclusively on road cycling and won the national titles in the road race and the individual time trial. He won the general classification of the Ronde des Vallées, as well as a stage of the SPIE Internationale Juniorendriedaagse. When he joined the under-23 category for the 2022 season, he signed with the UCI Continental team Metec–Solarwatt p/b Mantel. With this team, he achieved numerous top-10 finishes in his first season. Also active in mountain biking, he became the Dutch national under-23 cross-country champion in 2022. In cyclo-cross, he concentrated on the major races, the UCI Cyclo-cross World Cup, and the championships. He made his breakthrough in the 2022–2023 season, becoming the Dutch national under-23 cyclo-cross champion and finishing second overall in the Under-23 World Cup, after winning his first World Cup race in Besançon. At the end of the season, at the World Championships on home soil, he became vice-world champion in the under-23 race and world champion in the mixed relay.

At the end of the 2023 season, Del Grosso joined the UCI Continental team Alpecin–Deceuninck Development Team. During the 2023–2024 cyclo-cross season, he won four rounds and the general classification of the Under-23 World Cup, and became under-23 cyclo-cross world champion ahead of Belgians Emiel Verstrynge and Jente Michels.

Major results Cyclo-cross

2019–2020 1st National Junior Championships Junior DVV Trophy 1st Loenhout 1st Junior Woerden Junior Superprestige 2nd Middelkerke 2nd Junior Hulst UCI Junior World Cup 4th Nommay 4th Heusden-Zolder 5th Hoogerheide 5th UCI World Junior Championships 2022–2023 1st National Under-23 Championships

2nd Overall UCI Under-23 World Cup 1st Besançon 2nd Benidorm 3rd Zonhoven 2023–2024 1st UCI World Under-23 Championships 1st Overall UCI Under-23 World Cup 1st Troyes 1st Dublin 1st Antwerpen 1st Hoogerheide 4th Benidorm 1st Nijverdal 2024–2025 1st UCI World Under-23 Championships 1st National Championships 1st Overall UCI Under-23 World Cup 1st Hulst 1st Zonhoven 1st Besançon 1st Benidorm 1st Hoogerheide Under-23 X²O Badkamers Trophy 1st Herentals X²O Badkamers Trophy 2nd Koksijde UCI World Cup 5th Namur 2025–2026 1st National Championships Superprestige 1st Heusden-Zolder 1st Diegem

UCI World Cup 2nd Dendermonde 2nd Zonhoven 2nd Maasmechelen 2nd Hoogerheide 3rd Gavere 4th Koksijde 4th Benidorm

Road

2020 2nd Time trial, National Junior Championships 2021 National Junior Championships 1st Road race 1st Time trial 1st Overall Ronde des Vallées 1st Stage 1 5th Overall SPIE Internationale Juniorendriedaagse 1st Points classification 1st Stage 3 5th Overall Internationale Juniorenrundfahrt 6th Overall Course de la Paix Juniors 2022 8th Overall Kreiz Breizh Elites 2023 2nd Overall Flanders Tomorrow Tour 1st Points classification 6th Overall Kreiz Breizh Elites 2024 1st Road race, National Under-23 Championships 1st GP New York City 1st Prologue Oberösterreich Rundfahrt 2nd SD WORX BW Classic 5th Youngster Coast Challenge 7th Road race, UEC European Under-23 Championships 8th Road race, UCI World Under-23 Championships 8th Paris–Roubaix Espoirs 2025 (1 pro win) 1st Stage 2 Tour of Turkey 3rd Dwars door het Hageland 5th Overall Tour of Norway 5th Antwerp Port Epic 6th Dwars door Vlaanderen 9th Overall Renewi Tour 1st Young rider classification 10th Overall Danmark Rundt 10th Brabantse Pijl 2026 (1) 1st NXT Classic 4th Famenne Ardenne Classic 5th Road race, National Championships 9th Grand Prix de Denain

Mountain bike

2020 3rd Cross-country, National Junior Championships 2021 2nd Junior Watersley 2nd Junior Spaarnwoude 2022 1st Cross-country, National Under-23 Championships