Jelle Wallays (born 11 May 1989) is a Belgian former road cyclist, who competed as a professional from 2011 to 2023.
 Wallays in 2023 | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Born | 11 May 1989 Roeselare, West Flanders, Belgium |
| Height | 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) |
| Weight | 77 kg (170 lb) |
| Team information | |
| Current team | Retired |
| Discipline | Road |
| Role | Rider |
| Rider type | Classics specialist |
| Amateur teams | |
| 2008–2010 | Beveren 2000[1] |
| 2010 | Topsport Vlaanderen–Mercator (stagiaire) |
| Professional teams | |
| 2011–2015 | Topsport Vlaanderen–Mercator[2] |
| 2016–2020 | Lotto–Soudal[3][4] |
| 2021–2023 | Cofidis[5] |
| Major wins | |
Grand Tours
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Career
editJelle Wallays is the brother and nephew of racing cyclists Jens Wallays and Luc Wallays.[6] He was coached by his uncle in his early racing career and competed in his first race at the age of 14. The start of his first year as a professional in 2011 was marred by a knee injury, however a few weeks after returning to competition he took the best result of his season at the Belgian National Road Race Championships, where he finished third behind Philippe Gilbert and Gianni Meersman.[1]
A winner of the Paris–Tours Espoirs in 2010, Wallays won the 2014 Paris–Tours having been in a breakaway that went in the opening kilometres of the 237.5 km (147.6 mi) race, making him the only rider to win the under-23 and elite men's editions of Paris–Tours.[7] He added a second victory in the race in 2019.
In 2015, he won the Dwars door Vlaanderen by attacking a group of three other riders a kilometre away from the finish line.[8]
Wallays joined Lotto–Soudal for the 2016 season, with a focus on working as part of the team's sprint train.[1] He was named in the startlist for the 2016 Vuelta a España.[9]
In October 2020, Wallays signed with the Cofidis team for the 2021 season.[10]
Major results
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- 2007
- 1st Stage 3b Course de la Paix Juniors
- 4th Omloop Mandel-Leie-Schelde
- 2009
- 3rd Overall Kreiz Breizh Elites
- 5th Road race, National Under-23 Road Championships
- 5th Paris–Roubaix Espoirs
- 8th Overall Mi–Août Bretonne
- 2010
- 1st Grand Prix Criquielion
- 1st Paris–Tours Espoirs
- 5th Omloop Het Nieuwsblad Beloften
- 7th Circuit de Wallonie
- 8th Ronde van Vlaanderen Beloften
- 2011
- 3rd Road race, National Road Championships
- 4th Kattekoers
- 5th Internationale Wielertrofee Jong Maar Moedig
- 7th Overall Tour of Britain
- 10th Grote Prijs Stad Zottegem
- 2012
- 7th Grote Prijs Jef Scherens
- 9th Overall Tour de Wallonie
- 2013
- 1st Stage 1 World Ports Classic
- 4th Internationale Wielertrofee Jong Maar Moedig
- 7th Overall Driedaagse van West-Vlaanderen
- 7th Grote Prijs Stad Geel
- 7th Grote Prijs Jef Scherens
- 8th Overall Post Danmark Rundt
- 2014
- 1st Paris–Tours
- 1st Omloop van het Houtland
- 3rd Internationale Wielertrofee Jong Maar Moedig
- 7th Overall Danmark Rundt
- 7th Ronde van Drenthe
- 9th Druivenkoers Overijse
- 10th Chrono des Nations
- 2015
- 1st Dwars door Vlaanderen
- 1st Grand Prix Criquielion
- 1st Duo Normand (with Victor Campenaerts)
- 4th Overall Tour de Luxembourg
- 7th Schaal Sels
- 8th Overall Ster ZLM Toer
- 2016
- 1st Grand Prix Pino Cerami
- 4th Dwars door het Hageland
- 9th Overall Driedaagse van West-Vlaanderen
- 2018
- 1st Stage 18 Vuelta a España
- 1st Stage 6 Vuelta a San Juan
- 4th Tacx Pro Classic
- 2019
- 1st Paris–Tours
- 9th Overall ZLM Tour
- 2020
- 8th Antwerp Port Epic
Grand Tour general classification results timeline
edit| Grand Tour | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 |
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 Giro d'Italia
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Has not contested during his career | |||||||
 Tour de France
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— | — | — | — | — | 131 | — | — |
 Vuelta a España
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92 | 151 | 143 | 144 | — | — | — | |
| — | Did not compete |
|---|---|
| DNF | Did not finish |
References
edit- ^ a b c "Presentation new rider: Jelle Wallays". Lotto–Soudal. Archived from the original on 1 June 2016. Retrieved 30 April 2016.
- ^ "Topsport Vlaanderen-Baloise (TSV) – BEL". UCI Continental Circuits. Union Cycliste Internationale. Retrieved 6 February 2014.[permanent dead link]
- ^ "Lotto-Soudal". Directvelo (in French). Association Le Peloton. Retrieved 3 January 2019.
- ^ "Steff Cras and Matthew Holmes complete Lotto Soudal's 2020 roster". Cyclingnews.com. 27 October 2019. Retrieved 2 January 2020.
- ^ "Cofidis". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 1 January 2021. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
- ^ Tytgat, Martin (7 March 2013). "Wielermilieu rouwt na overlijden Luc Wallays" [Cycling milieu mourns after death of Luc Wallays]. Het Nieuwsblad (in Dutch). Retrieved 30 April 2016.
- ^ Wallays wins Paris-Tours classic
- ^ "Wallays wins Dwars door Vlaanderen". Cyclingnews.com. 25 March 2015. Retrieved 26 March 2015.
- ^ "71st Vuelta a España". ProCyclingStats. Retrieved 20 August 2016.
- ^ "Jelle Wallays, l'expérience au service de Cofidis" [The experienced Jelle Wallays, at the service of Cofidis]. Cofidis (in French). Groupe Cofidis Participations. 24 October 2020. Retrieved 25 October 2020.
External links
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- Jelle Wallays at UCI
- Jelle Wallays at Cycling Archives (archived)
- Jelle Wallays at ProCyclingStats
- Jelle Wallays at CQ Ranking
- Jelle Wallays at CycleBase
