Info about Remco Evenepoel
- Date of birth: 25 January 2000
- Place of birth: Aalst
- Country: Belgium
- Size: 1,71 m
- Weight: 61 kg
- Current team: Soudal Quick-Step
Remco Evenepoel is one of the superstars of professional cycling. The young Belgian's greatest successes include winning the road world title in 2022, winning the overall classification of the Vuelta a Espana in the same year and the double Olympic victory in the time trial and road race in Paris 2024.
Remco Evenepoel: The greatest successes
- Overall winner of the Vuelta a Espana 2022
- 5 stage wins Vuelta a Espana (2023 & 2022)
- 2x winner Liège-Bastogne-Liège (2023 & 2022)
- 3x winner Clasica San Sebastian (2023, 2022 & 2019)
- Olympic road race champion Paris 2024
- Olympic champion individual time trial Paris 2024
- World champion road race Wollongong 2022
- 2x world champion individual time trial (2024 & 2023)
- 1 stage win Tour de France 2024
- 2 stage wins Giro d'Italia 2023
Remco Evenepoel: From football to cycling
Remco Evenepoel was initially active as a footballer in his youth before switching to cycling in 2017. He rode straight to his first successes in his junior years. Evenepoel became European Junior Road Race Champion in 2018. At the Junior World Championships in Innsbruck in the same year, he secured the time trial and road race titles. A year later, he became European champion in the individual time trial in Alkmaar - this time in the men's competition.
Overall victory at the Vuelta a Espana
His victory at Liège-Bastogne-Liège 2022 was his first triumph in one of cycling's five monuments. In 2023, he repeated this coup and defended his title at Liège-Bastogne-Liège. In 2022, Remco Evenepoel became world road race champion in Australia and won the overall classification of the Vuelta a Espana.
In 2023, Evenepoel took two stage wins at the Giro d'Italia, which he had to abandon prematurely due to illness. In July 2023, he celebrated his third triumph at the Clasica San Sebastian before taking his first world title in the individual time trial in Scotland. The Belgian then secured three stage wins at the Vuelta a Espana, but lost the race after a Collapse in the high mountains all chances of another overall victory.
Double gold for Remco Evenepoel at the 2024 Olympics in Paris
2024 Evenepoel was involved in a mass crash on stage 4 of the Tour of the Basque Country in April, in which he was also injured. Jonas Vingegaard seriously injured. Evenepoel suffered a broken collarbone and a fracture of the shoulder bladewhich set him back in his preparation for the Tour de France. There, Evenepoel won the individual time trial for the first time on the Stage 7 and secured third place in the overall standings behind Tadej Pogacar and Jonas Vingegaard. The Belgian then experienced his finest hour in 2024 at the Olympics in Paris. There he first took Gold in the individual time trial and a little later also sat down the crown in the road race. But that's not all. In September, Evenepoel also won the World Cycling Championships in Zurich for the second time. World champion in the individual time trial.
In preparation for the 2025 season, Evenepoel was set back considerably at the beginning of December 2024 after injuring himself in a Collision with a postal vehicle suffered a rib fracture, a shoulder blade fracture, a hand fracture, bruises in his lungs and a dislocation of his right collarbone, in which all the surrounding ligaments were torn. The Olympic champion is aiming for his comeback in the saddle in mid-April 2025.
