# Gijs Van Hoecke

Gijs Van Hoecke (born 12 November 1991) is a Belgian cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Intermarché–Wanty.

## Career

In 2011, when he was 19 years old, he was selected to participate at the Track Cycling World Championships, where he won the bronze medal in the Men's omnium. One year later, at the World Championships in Melbourne, he finished ninth in the same event and became Madison World Champion.
At the 2012 Summer Olympics, he competed in the Men's team pursuit for the Belgian national team, and the men's omnium.
Van Hoecke won the bronze medal at the Madison in the 2013 European Track Championships. During that year, he also won his first six-day race in Amsterdam.
In 2014, Van Hoecke won the Internationale Wielertrofee Jong Maar Moedig road race. In May 2018, he was named in the startlist for the 2018 Giro d'Italia.
In August 2018 he announced that he would join the CCC Team for 2019, working as a domestique for his training partner, Greg Van Avermaet. Van Hoecke remained with the team into the 2020 season; that August, it was announced that Van Hoecke would join the AG2R Citroën Team on a two-year contract, from the start of the 2021 season.

## Major results
### Track
#### 2008

    2nd Madison, UCI Junior Track Cycling World Championships
    National Junior Track Championships
       2nd Omnium
       2nd Team pursuit
       2nd Kilo
       2nd Individual pursuit

#### 2009

    1st Omnium, National Junior Track Championships
    2nd Madison, UCI Juniors Track World Championships (with Jochen Deweer)

#### 2010

    2nd Omnium, UEC European Under-23 Track Championships
    2nd Scratch, 2010–11 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics, Cali

#### 2011

    1st Scratch, 2011–12 UCI Track Cycling World Cup, Astana
    3rd Omnium, UCI Track World Championships

#### 2012

    1st Madison, UCI Track World Championships (with Kenny De Ketele)
    UEC European Under-23 Track Championships
       2nd Madison (with Jasper De Buyst)
       3rd Team pursuit
    2nd Six Days of Ghent (with Kenny De Ketele)
    3rd Team pursuit, 2012–13 UCI Track Cycling World Cup, Glasgow

#### 2013

    1st Six Days of Amsterdam (with Kenny De Ketele)
    3rd Madison, UEC European Track Championships (with Kenny De Ketele)
    3rd Six Days of Ghent (with Kenny De Ketele)

#### 2015

    2nd Six Days of Ghent (with Kenny De Ketele)
    3rd Six Days of London (with Iljo Keisse)

### Road

Source:

#### 2009

    1st Overall Giro della Toscana Juniors
    5th Overall Münsterland Tour

#### 2011

    1st Overall Ronde van de Provincie Antwerpen
    2nd Paris–Tours Espoirs

#### 2012

    3rd Ronde van Zeeland Seaports

#### 2013

    2nd Grand Prix Criquielion

#### 2014

    1st Internationale Wielertrofee Jong Maar Moedig

#### 2015

    1st Combativity classification Eneco Tour
    8th Internationale Wielertrofee Jong Maar Moedig
    10th Overall Ster ZLM Toer
    10th Ronde van Limburg

#### 2016

    6th Overall Danmark Rundt
    8th Overall Ster ZLM Toer

#### 2019

    6th Overall Okolo Slovenska

#### 2021

    9th Grand Prix of Aargau Canton

#### Grand Tour general classification results timeline

| Grand Tour | 2018 |
| Giro d'Italia | 122 |
| Tour de France | — |
| Vuelta a España | — |
Legend :
| — | Did not compete |
| DNF | Did not finish |