Victor Campenaerts
Victor Campenaerts 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' 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, Ferdinand Bracke and Eddy Merckx.
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;2015
;2016
;2017
;2018
;2019
;2020
;2021
;2022
;2023
;2024
;2025
Grand Tour general classification results timeline
| — | Did not compete |
| DNF | Did not finish |
Track
;2015;2016
;2019