# Jos van Emden

Jos van Emden (born 18 February 1985) is a Dutch former professional road bicycle racer, who rode professionally between 2005 and 2023 for the Trientalis–Apac Team, the Rabobank Continental Team and Team Jumbo–Visma.
During his career, Van Emden's specialty was in individual time trials, with 11 of his 14 professional victories coming in the discipline – including 3 victories in the Dutch National Time Trial Championships and a stage win at the 2017 Giro d'Italia. He was also part of the Dutch team that won the inaugural World Championships mixed team relay event, held in Yorkshire in 2019.
Following his retirement at the end of the 2023 season, Van Emden became a directeur sportif with UCI Women's WorldTeam Visma–Lease a Bike.

## Career

Born in Schiedam, Van Emden started racing at UCI level in 2005 with the Trientalis–Apac Team. During his second year, he took eight victories in his first season with the Rabobank Continental Team – two overall stage race victories along with stage wins across five races – and finished seventh in the under-23 road race at the 2006 UCI Road World Championships. The next year, he achieved his first professional victory when he won the Münsterland Giro. After three further victories in 2008, Van Emden was promoted to the main Rabobank team before the end of the season.
His debut in a Grand Tour came in 2009, when he took part in the Giro d'Italia. One year later, he finished ninth in two different stages of that same race, and achieved two time-trial victories in one week, winning the prologues of the Delta Tour Zeeland and the Ster Elektrotoer. Later that year, he was the winner of the Dutch National Time Trial Championships. He repeated his prologue victory at the Delta Tour Zeeland in 2011, and he also finished in fifth place overall at UCI World Tour race, the Eneco Tour. Van Emden's next victory came at the 2013 Münsterland Giro, joining Marcel Kittel as a two-time winner of the race, having broken clear from a lead group in the closing kilometres.
Van Emden made international headlines when he proposed to his girlfriend during the second time trial stage of the 2014 Giro d'Italia. After she accepted, he finished the stage 120th out of 156 starters. His best results during the 2014 season were third-place finishes in the Dutch National Time Trial Championships and the Arnhem–Veenendaal Classic. In 2015, Van Emden finished second in the time trial stage of the Tour of California, sitting in the leader's hot seat all day before being beaten by Peter Sagan. Two months later, Van Emden participated in his first Tour de France; he finished fifth in the opening time trial that took place in his home country. His biggest victory at that time came when he won the time trial stage of the Eneco Tour, subsequently gaining the right to wear the leader's jersey.
In 2016, Van Emden again won the opening time trial stage of the now-renamed Ster ZLM Toer, ultimately finishing the race in third place overall. He finished second in the Dutch National Time Trial Championships, more than half a minute down on race winner Tom Dumoulin. After riding the Giro d'Italia in the spring, Van Emden made his first start at the Vuelta a España, but failed to finish the race. He finished the season with an eighth-place finish in the time trial at the UCI Road World Championships in Qatar.
In 2017, Van Emden beat Silvan Dillier to the line to win Dwars door West-Vlaanderen in March, before taking his first Grand Tour stage victory at the Giro d'Italia in May, winning the final 29.3-kilometre (18.2-mile) individual time trial stage between the Monza Circuit and Milan. Later in the season, he placed fifth in the time trial at the UEC European Road Championships in Denmark. The following year, he was part of the LottoNL–Jumbo squad that won the team time trial at the Tour of Britain, and he finished second in individual time trial stages at Tirreno–Adriatico and the Critérium du Dauphiné.
Van Emden took his third prologue victory at the again-renamed ZLM Tour in 2019, and the following week, he won the Dutch National Time Trial Championships for the second time. Later in the season, Van Emden was part of the Dutch team that won the inaugural World Championships mixed team relay event, held in Yorkshire, and finished the season with a victory in the Chrono des Nations. In 2021, Van Emden took further medals in the mixed team relay at both the World Championships (silver) and the European Championships (bronze), with his final professional victory coming with his third Dutch national time trial title in June 2023. In August 2023, Van Emden announced his retirement from the sport as of the end of the season, and became a directeur sportif with UCI Women's WorldTeam Visma–Lease a Bike.

## Major results

Source:

### 2006

    1st Overall Roserittet DNV GP
       1st Stage 1
    1st Overall Triptyque des Barrages
       1st Stage 2 (ITT)
    Grand Prix Guillaume Tell
       1st Prologue & Stage 1
    1st Stage 1 Tour du Loir-et-Cher
    3rd Overall Tour de Normandie
       1st Stage 4
    3rd Ronde van Overijssel
    National Under-23 Road Championships
       4th Time trial
       5th Road race
    4th Paris–Tours Espoirs
    5th Omloop van het Waasland
    6th Ronde van Noord-Holland
    7th Road race, UCI Under-23 Road World Championships
    8th Time trial, UEC European Under-23 Road Championships

### 2007

    1st Münsterland Giro
    1st Prologue (TTT) Tour Alsace
    National Under-23 Road Championships
       2nd Time trial
       3rd Road race

### 2008

    1st Stage 1 Rhône-Alpes Isère Tour
    1st Stage 5 Vuelta Ciclista a León
    5th Overall Olympia's Tour
    5th Ronde van Drenthe
    7th Overall Le Triptyque des Monts et Châteaux
    7th Halle–Ingooigem
    8th Overall Tour de Normandie
       1st Stage 7
    9th Overall Boucles de la Mayenne

### 2009

    8th Kampioenschap van Vlaanderen
    10th Overall Sachsen Tour

### 2010

    1st Time trial, National Road Championships
    1st Prologue Ster Elektrotoer
    2nd Overall Delta Tour Zeeland
       1st Young rider classification
       1st Prologue
    2nd Hel van het Mergelland

### 2011

    1st Stadsprijs Geraardsbergen
    3rd Overall Delta Tour Zeeland
       1st Prologue
    5th Overall Eneco Tour

### 2013

    1st Münsterland Giro
    4th Overall Tour of Hainan

### 2014

    3rd Time trial, National Road Championships
    3rd Arnhem–Veenendaal Classic
    9th Overall Ster ZLM Toer
    10th Paris–Tours

### 2015

    1st Stage 4 (ITT) Eneco Tour
    3rd Time trial, National Road Championships
    6th Overall Tour du Poitou-Charentes

### 2016

    2nd Time trial, National Road Championships
    3rd Overall Ster ZLM Toer
       1st Stage 1 (ITT)
    5th Overall Eneco Tour
    8th Time trial, UCI Road World Championships

### 2017

    1st Dwars door West-Vlaanderen
    1st Stage 21 (ITT) Giro d'Italia
    4th Time trial, National Road Championships
    5th Time trial, UEC European Road Championships
    6th Overall Tour of Britain
    8th Le Samyn

### 2018

    1st Stage 5 (TTT) Tour of Britain
    5th Time trial, National Road Championships
    8th Time trial, UEC European Road Championships
    10th Paris–Tours

### 2019

    1st Mixed team relay, UCI Road World Championships
    1st Time trial, National Road Championships
    1st Chrono des Nations
    1st Stage 1 (TTT) UAE Tour
    3rd Binche–Chimay–Binche
    8th Overall ZLM Tour
       1st Prologue
    8th Time trial, UEC European Road Championships

### 2020

    5th Road race, National Road Championships

### 2021

    2nd Mixed team relay, UCI Road World Championships
    3rd Mixed team relay, UEC European Road Championships

### 2022

    4th Time trial, National Road Championships
    9th Time trial, UEC European Road Championships

### 2023

    1st Time trial, National Road Championships

### Grand Tour general classification results timeline

| Grand Tour | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 |
| Giro d'Italia | 166 | 116 | 159 | — | — | 107 | — | 120 | 117 | 99 | 104 | DNF | DNF | 89 |
| Tour de France | — | — | — | — | — | — | 121 | — | DNF | — | — | — | — | — |
| / Vuelta a España | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | DNF | — | — | — | — | — | — |

### Major championship results

| Event | Event | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 |
| World Championships | Time trial | — | — | 36 | — | — | — | — | — | 8 | — | 19 | 21 | 21 | 12 | — | 36 |
| World Championships | Mixed team relay | Event did not exist | Event did not exist | Event did not exist | Event did not exist | Event did not exist | Event did not exist | Event did not exist | Event did not exist | Event did not exist | Event did not exist | Event did not exist | 1 | NH | 2 | — | 7 |
| World Championships | Road race | — | — | DNF | — | — | — | — | DNF | DNF | DNF | — | DNF | — | — | — | — |
| World Championships | Team time trial | Event did not exist | Event did not exist | Event did not exist | Event did not exist | — | 12 | — | 6 | 5 | 7 | 13 | Event did not exist | Event did not exist | Event did not exist | Event did not exist | Event did not exist |
| European Championships | Time trial | Event did not exist | Event did not exist | Event did not exist | Event did not exist | Event did not exist | Event did not exist | Event did not exist | Event did not exist | — | 5 | 8 | 8 | — | 11 | 9 | — |
| European Championships | Mixed team relay | Event did not exist | Event did not exist | Event did not exist | Event did not exist | Event did not exist | Event did not exist | Event did not exist | Event did not exist | Event did not exist | Event did not exist | Event did not exist | — | — | 3 | NH | 4 |
| National Championships | Time trial | 8 | 7 | 1 | 9 | — | 18 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 1 | NH | — | 4 | 1 |
| National Championships | Road race | 25 | — | 49 | 43 | — | DNF | DNF | 50 | 40 | 50 | 18 | 59 | 5 | — | 13 | 37 |
Legend :
| — | Did not compete |
| DNF | Did not finish |
| NH | Not held |