# Gerben Thijssen

Gerben Thijssen (born 21 June 1998) is a Belgian road and track cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Intermarché–Wanty.

## Career

Thijssen won the bronze medal at the 2015 UCI Juniors Track World Championships in the points race. He won the silver medal at the 2016–17 UCI Track Cycling World Cup in Apeldoorn in the team pursuit. In 2016, as a junior he won 2 stages in the Nations Cup Trofeo Karlsberg, the Omloop van de Vlaamse Gewesten and a Belgian Cup stage in Nederhasselt. He represented Belgium at the UCI Juniors Road World Championships in Qatar. In 2017, as a U23-rider he won the Grote Prijs Stad Sint-Niklaas and a stage in Olympia's Tour. He won the gold medal at the 2017 UEC European Track Championships in the Elite Elimination Race. In 2018, he was the Belgian champion in the U23-category. In November 2019, Thijssen crashed out of the Six Days of Ghent, suffering three small brain haemorrhages before being admitted to intensive care.
In October 2020, he was named in the startlist for the 2020 Vuelta a España.
In October 2023, Thijssen and Estonian rider Madis Mihkels were pulled by their team from the Tour of Guangxi, after Mihkels made a racist gesture. Mihkels pulled his eyes into slants, in a picture Thijssen posted on his Instagram.

## Major results
### Road
#### 2016

    1st Omloop der Vlaamse Gewesten
    Trofeo Karlsberg
       1st Stages 1 & 2a
    1st Stage 1 Internationale Cottbuser Junioren-Etappenfahrt

#### 2017

    1st Grote Prijs Stad Sint-Niklaas
    1st Stage 4 Olympia's Tour
    2nd Gooikse Pijl
    3rd Paris–Tours Espoirs
    7th Ronde van Overijssel
    7th Eschborn-Frankfurt City Loop U23

#### 2018

    1st Road race, National Under-23 Championships
    5th Paris–Troyes

#### 2019

    1st Memorial Van Coningsloo
    1st Stage 1 Paris–Arras Tour
    4th Overall Tour d'Eure-et-Loir
       1st Young rider classification
       1st Stage 2
    6th Road race, UEC European Under-23 Championships

#### 2020

    2nd Gooikse Pijl

#### 2021

    3rd Omloop van het Houtland
    5th Grand Prix de Fourmies

#### 2022 (3 pro wins)

    1st Gooikse Pijl
    1st Stage 2 Tour de Pologne
    1st Stage 6 Four Days of Dunkirk
    2nd Veenendaal–Veenendaal Classic
    3rd Grote Prijs Marcel Kint
    4th Grote Prijs Jean-Pierre Monseré
    5th Bredene Koksijde Classic
    7th Antwerp Port Epic
    7th Kampioenschap van Vlaanderen
    9th Omloop van het Houtland

#### 2023 (4)

    1st Bredene Koksijde Classic
    1st Grote Prijs Jean-Pierre Monseré
    1st Ronde van Limburg
    1st Omloop van het Houtland
    2nd Grand Prix de Fourmies
    2nd La Roue Tourangelle
    3rd Van Merksteijn Fences Classic
    4th Gooikse Pijl
    5th Scheldeprijs
    5th Elfstedenronde
    8th Albert Achterhes Profronde van Drenthe

#### 2024 (2)

    1st Trofeo Palma
    Volta ao Algarve
       1st Points classification
       1st Stage 1
    2nd Grand Prix de Fourmies
    2nd La Roue Tourangelle
    3rd Bredene Koksijde Classic
    3rd Grand Prix d'Isbergues
    4th Omloop van het Houtland
    5th Clásica de Almería
    5th Ronde van Limburg
    5th Kampioenschap van Vlaanderen
    9th Heistse Pijl

#### Grand Tour general classification results timeline

| Grand Tour | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 |
| Giro d'Italia | — | — | — |
| Tour de France | — | — | — |
| Vuelta a España | DNF | — | DNF |
Legend :
| — | Did not compete |
| DNF | Did not finish |

### Track
#### 2015

    National Junior Championships
       1st Madison (with Robbe Ghys)
       3rd Keirin
    2nd Madison, UEC European Junior Championships (with Robbe Ghys)
    3rd Points race, UCI World Junior Championships

#### 2016

    National Junior Championships
       1st Omnium
       1st Points race
       2nd Elimination race
       2nd Individual pursuit
       2nd Kilo
       2nd Madison (with Sasha Weemaes)
    1st Six Days of Ghent U23 (with Jules Hesters)
    UEC European Junior Championships
       2nd Madison (with Jules Hesters)
       3rd Points race
    2nd Team pursuit, UCI World Cup, Apeldoorn

#### 2017

    1st Elimination race, UEC European Championships
    2nd Team pursuit, UEC European Under-23 Championships

#### 2019

    2nd Team pursuit, UEC European Under-23 Championships
    2nd Omnium, National Championships