# Edward Theuns

Edward Theuns (born 30 April 1991) is a Belgian racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Lidl–Trek.

## Career

Theuns made his debut for Topsport Vlaanderen–Baloise in 2014. He took his first victory in August 2014 in the Grote Prijs Stad Zottegem. He also rode for his national team at the 2014 UCI Road World Championships. In 2015, he began his season with four top-ten finishes at the Étoile de Bessèges, finishing fifth overall and winning the points classification. He took his second career win in March 2015 with victory in the Ronde van Drenthe. In August 2015 it was announced that Theuns would join Trek–Segafredo for the 2016 season. He was named in the start list for the 2016 Tour de France and the 2017 Vuelta a España.
In 2018, Theuns signed with Team Sunweb, before returning to ride for Trek–Segafredo the following year. In 2019, he won the Primus Classic.

## Major results
### 2010

    8th Overall Le Triptyque des Monts et Châteaux
       1st Stage 4

### 2012

    8th Paris–Tours Espoirs

### 2013

    1st Stage 2a (ITT) Le Triptyque des Monts et Châteaux
    1st Mountains classification, Giro della Regione Friuli Venezia Giulia
    2nd Overall Tour du Piémont Vosgien
    3rd Time trial, National Under-23 Road Championships
    6th Liège–Bastogne–Liège Espoirs
    7th GP Briek Schotte
    8th Paris–Tours Espoirs
    10th La Côte Picarde

### 2014 (1 pro win)

    1st Grote Prijs Stad Zottegem
    3rd Handzame Classic
    4th Châteauroux Classic
    7th Omloop van het Waasland

### 2015 (3)

    1st Ronde van Drenthe
    1st Stage 3 Tour de l'Eurométropole
    2nd Dwars door Vlaanderen
    2nd Scheldeprijs
    2nd Rund um Köln
    3rd Halle–Ingooigem
    4th Dwars door Drenthe
    4th Nationale Sluitingsprijs
    5th Overall Étoile de Bessèges
       1st Points classification
    5th Overall Ster ZLM Toer
    5th Clásica de Almería
    5th Ronde van Zeeland Seaports
    7th Overall Four Days of Dunkirk
       1st Stage 5
    7th Overall World Ports Classic
    7th Grand Prix d'Ouverture La Marseillaise
    8th Paris–Tours
    8th Grand Prix de Fourmies
    9th Schaal Sels

### 2016 (1)

    1st Stage 1 Tour of Belgium
    3rd Dwars door Vlaanderen
    3rd Halle–Ingooigem
    4th Scheldeprijs
    8th Omloop Het Nieuwsblad
    8th Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne
    Tour de France
       Held after Stage 1

### 2017 (2)

    Tour of Turkey
       1st Points classification
       1st Stage 6
    1st Stage 4 BinckBank Tour
    2nd Halle–Ingooigem
    5th Down Under Classic
    6th Road race, UEC European Road Championships
    7th Overall Three Days of De Panne
    8th Paris–Roubaix

### 2018

    6th Omloop Het Nieuwsblad

### 2019 (1)

    1st Primus Classic
    6th Omloop van het Houtland
    9th Kampioenschap van Vlaanderen

### 2020

    5th Road race, National Road Championships

### 2021 (1)

    1st Stage 5 Tour de Hongrie
    2nd Road race, National Road Championships
    8th Overall Étoile de Bessèges
    8th Clásica de Almería
    Combativity award Stage 2 Tour de France

### 2022

    2nd Paris–Tours
    3rd Grand Prix d'Isbergues
    5th Scheldeprijs
    6th Eschborn–Frankfurt
    7th Paris–Bourges

### 2023

    2nd Nokere Koerse
    2nd Binche–Chimay–Binche
    3rd Le Samyn
    6th Scheldeprijs
    9th Paris–Tours
    10th Bredene Koksijde Classic

### 2024

    9th Binche–Chimay–Binche

### 2025

    1st Stage 1 (TTT) Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana

### Grand Tour general classification results timeline

| Grand Tour | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
| Giro d'Italia | — | — | — | — | — | — | 131 | — | 113 |
| Tour de France | DNF | — | 88 | — | 119 | 104 | — | — | |
| Vuelta a España | — | 91 | — | 133 | — | — | — | 128 | |
Legend :
| — | Did not compete |
| DNF | Did not finish |