Victor Campenaerts

Victor Campenaerts (born 28 October 1991) is a Belgian racing cyclist who rides for UCI WorldTeam .

Career He rode in the 2014 UCI Road World Championships.

In September 2015 it was announced that he would join the UCI World Tour ranks in 2016 with . He was named in the startlist for the 2016 Vuelta a España and the start list for the 2017 Giro d'Italia.

On 16 April 2019, at the Aguascalientes Bicentenary Velodrome in Aguascalientes, Mexico, Campenaerts broke the hour record, riding , surpassing Bradley Wiggins's previous mark set on 7 June 2015 by . In doing so, he became the fourth Belgian cyclist to hold the hour record, after Oscar Van den Eynde (1897–98), Ferdinand Bracke (1967–68) and Eddy Merckx (1972–2000).

Campenaerts rejoined , on a 3-year contract, in 2022 after 2 years away at .

Riding for the now renamed Lotto–Dstny, Campenaerts rode the 2023 Tour de France. Upon the race's conclusion in Paris, he was selected as the winner of the race's super-combativity award, as the most combative rider overall during the race. Campenaerts made the breakaway 5 times during the race, including on stages 18 and 19, which had both been forecast as sprint finishes. Campenaerts played a big role in each stage's successful breakaway, helping his teammates and holding off the charging peloton.

He continued with Lotto–Dstny into the 2024 Tour de France, at which he won Stage 18.

On 26 August 2024 Visma–Lease a Bike announced that Campenaerts would return to their team for the 2025 season, he signed a contract for three years. He rode for this team previously when it was called LottoNL–Jumbo.

Major results Road

2013 1st Time trial, UEC European Under-23 Championships 1st Time trial, National Under-23 Championships 4th Overall Vuelta a la Comunidad de Madrid Under-23 8th Time trial, UCI World Under-23 Championships 8th Antwerpse Havenpijl 2015 1st Duo Normand (with Jelle Wallays) 2nd Overall Tour de Wallonie 1st Young rider classification 4th Overall Ster ZLM Toer 5th Time trial, National Championships 10th Overall Boucles de la Mayenne 2016 (1 pro win) 1st Time trial, National Championships

2017 (2) 1st Time trial, UEC European Championships 1st Stage 3 (ITT) Vuelta a Andalucía 2nd Time trial, National Championships 4th Overall Tour of Britain 5th Chrono des Nations 9th Brabantse Pijl 10th Rund um Köln 2018 (2) 1st Time trial, UEC European Championships 1st Time trial, National Championships

2019 (2) 1st Stage 7 (ITT) Tirreno–Adriatico 2nd Overall Tour of Belgium 1st Stage 4 4th Time trial, National Championships 2020 2nd Time trial, National Championships

8th Time trial, UCI World Championships 2021 (1) 1st Stage 15 Giro d'Italia 3rd Time trial, National Championships 3rd Overall Benelux Tour 10th Road race, UEC European Championships 2022 (1) 1st Tour of Leuven 1st Mountains classification, Tour de Wallonie 3rd Time trial, National Championships 3rd Circuit Franco-Belge 4th Dwars door Vlaanderen 5th Overall Tour of Belgium 5th Omloop Het Nieuwsblad 6th Le Samyn 2023 (2) 1st Druivenkoers Overijse 1st Stage 4 (ITT) Tour de Luxembourg 6th Tour of Leuven Tour de France

2024 (1) 1st Stage 18 Tour de France 6th Time trial, UEC European Championships 9th Time trial, UCI World Championships 2025 1st Stage 3 (TTT) Paris–Nice 2026 1st Stage 1 (TTT) Tour de France

Grand Tour general classification results timeline Grand Tour 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 Giro d'Italia — DNF DNF 111 95 DNF — — — — 43 Tour de France — — — — — DNF — 64 81 28 Ongoing Vuelta a España 143 — 102 — — — — — 111 DNF

+ Legend — Did not compete DNF Did not finish

Track

2015 3rd Individual pursuit, National Championships 2016 1st Individual pursuit, National Championships 2019