Belgian – Puncher / Classics rider
Date and place of birth: September 16th, 1990 in Ostend (Belgium)
Height: 1m84 / 72kg
Turned pro in 2015
In the AG2R CITROËN TEAM Team since 2017
Professional wins: 5
Q&A
Your nickname : Oli
Your favorite race: Paris-Roubaix and Ronde Van Vlaanderen
Your best memory on bike: Belgian National Road Race Championship 2017
Your worst memory on bike: accidents of Antoine Demoitié, Stig Broeckx and Bjorg Lambrecht
The club where you started cycling: Denderstreek Labiekes
Your hobbies: have fun with my family and my friends
Music you like: many music styles, too many to choose one !
If you were a movie: Django Unchained
If you were a dish: macaronis
If you were a celebrity: Hugh Hefner !
If you had to practise another job, which one? I have no idea
Your qualities and defaults: you have to ask to my friends or to my family !
Palmarès
2021 (AG2R CITROËN TEAM)
- 4th E3 Saxo Bank Classic
- 7th Tro Bro Leon
- 9th Belgian National Road race championship
- 10th on a stage, Tour du Benelux
2020 (AG2R LA MONDIALE)
- 2nd on a stage, BinckBank Tour
- 5th and 8th on stages, Tour de France
- 7th Ronde van Vlaanderen
- 7th Omloop Het Nieuwsblad
- 10th on a stage, Paris-Nice
2019 (AG2R LA MONDIALE)
- Stage winner, BinckBank Tour / 2nd overall
- 2nd and 8th on stages, Paris-Nice
- 2nd Milano-San Remo
- 2nd Binche-Chimay-Binche
- 3rd Gent-Wevelgem
- 3rd Paris-Tours
- 4th, 7th, 8th and 9th on stages, Tour de France
- 5th and 7th on stages, Tour of Oman
- 7th Ronde Van Vlaanderen
- 8th E3 BinckBank Classic
- 8th Prudential Ride London Surrey Classic
- 10th Omloop Het Nieuwsblad
- 10th EuroEyes Cyclassics Hamburg
2018 (AG2R LA MONDIALE)
- Winner Bretagne Classic – Ouest France
- 3rd G.P. Eschborn-Frankfurt
- 3rd Eurométropole Tour
- 3rd Binche-Chimay-Binche
- 4th G.P. Cycliste de Montréal
- 4th G.P. E3 Harelbeke
- 4th on a stage, Critérium du Dauphiné
- 4t and 8th on stages, Binck Bank Tour
- 4th Paris-Tours
- 6th Gent-Wevelgem
- 8th on a stage, Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana
- 9th G.P. d’Isbergues – Pas-de-Calais
- 11th Ronde Van Vlaanderen
2017 (AG2R LA MONDIALE)
- Belgian National Road Race Champion
- 3rd G.P. E3 Harelbeke
- 3rd overall, 4 Jours de Dunkerque – Tour des Hauts de France / 3rd on a stage
- 4th and 7th on stages, Baloise Belgium Tour / 8th overall
- 5th overall, BinckBank Tour / 4th, 6th and 7th on stages
- 6th Dwars Door Vlaanderen
- 6th Paris-Tours
- 6th Eurometropole Tour
- 7th on a stage, Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana
- 7th Omloop Het Nieuwsblad
- 7th on a stage, Paris-Nice
- 8th on a stage, Tour of Oman
- 8th Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne
- 8th and 10th on stages, Critérium du Dauphiné
- 10th Prudential RideLondon – Surrey Classic
- 10th Binche-Chimay-Binche
- 13th Amstel Gold Race
2016 (IAM Cycling)
- Winner Bretagne Classic – Ouest France
- 2nd overall, Eurometropole Tour
- 2nd overall, Eneco Tour / 3rd on a stage
- 9th on a stage, Paris-Nice
- 10th on a stage, Tour de France
- 13th Paris-Roubaix
- 13th Omloop Het Nieuwsblad
2015 (Topsort Vlaanderen – Baloise)
- Winner La Polynormande
- Winner Gooikse Pijl
- Overall winner youth classification, Skoda-Tour du Luxembourg / 6th overall
- 2nd Schaal Sels
- 3rd G.P. Stad Zottegem
- 3rd Omloop van het Waasland
- 5th Druivenkoers-Overijse
- 7thoverall, Baloise-Belgium Tour
- 10th Tour de Vendée