# Kris Boeckmans

Kris Boeckmans (born 13 February 1987) is a Belgian former professional road bicycle racer, who rode professionally between 2010 and 2020, for the Topsport Vlaanderen–Mercator, Vacansoleil–DCM, Lotto–Soudal and B&B Hotels–Vital Concept teams.

## Career

Born in Malle, Boeckmans began competing as a professional in the second half of the 2009 season, competing for the Silence–Lotto team as a stagiaire. He joined Topsport Vlaanderen–Mercator for the start of the 2010 season, remaining with the team until the end of 2011, when he joined the Vacansoleil–DCM squad for the 2012 season. Boeckmans made his Grand Tour début at the 2012 Tour de France, where he was earmarked as one of the squad's main sprint contenders, along with Kenny van Hummel; Boeckmans took his first top ten placing on stage 4, when he finished eighth on the stage.
After two years with Vacansoleil–DCM, Boeckemans left the team at the end of the 2013 season, to join Lotto–Belisol. He started the 2015 Vuelta a España. However, on the eighth stage, he was involved in a large crash: he was drinking from a bidon and hit a hole in the road, falling hard to the ground. According to Cyclingnews.com, he suffered "facial trauma and fractures, a concussion, broken ribs and a punctured lung" and was placed into an induced coma. He was kept in the coma for over a week and was eventually discharged around four weeks after the crash, following major facial surgery in Belgium.

## Major results
### 2007

    2nd Zellik–Galmaarden

### 2008

    1st GP Stad Vilvoorde
    1st Stage 1b Vuelta a Navarra
    5th Overall Tour de Berlin
       1st Stage 1
    7th ZLM Tour
    9th Grand Prix de Waregem
    10th Kattekoers

### 2009

    1st Road race, UEC European Under-23 Road Championships
    1st Overall Le Triptyque des Monts et Châteaux
       1st Stage 2b
    1st Schaal Sels
    1st Stage 2 Vuelta a Navarra
    2nd Overall Ronde van Antwerpen
       1st Stages 1a (ITT) & 3
    2nd Brussel–Zepperen
    2nd Paris–Tours Espoirs
    4th GP Raymond Impanis
    5th Kattekoers

### 2010

    1st Stage 5 Ster Elektrotoer
    2nd Overall Driedaagse van West-Vlaanderen
       1st Stage 3
    2nd Nokere Koerse
    7th Scheldeprijs
    8th Omloop van het Waasland
    8th Nationale Sluitingsprijs
    9th Wanzele-Lede
    10th Dwars door Drenthe
    10th Grand Prix de Denain

### 2011

    3rd Münsterland Giro
    4th Puivelde Koerse
    6th Sparkassen Giro Bochum
    9th Omloop Gemeente Melle

### 2012

    2nd Le Samyn
    2nd Nokere Koerse

### 2013

    2nd Le Samyn
    5th Schaal Sels
    6th Halle–Ingooigem

### 2014

    2nd Halle–Ingooigem

### 2015

    1st Overall Tour de Picardie
       1st Stages 1 & 3
    1st Overall World Ports Classic
       1st Points classification
       1st Stage 2
    1st Le Samyn
    1st Nokere Koerse
    2nd Halle–Ingooigem
    3rd Overall Étoile de Bessèges
       1st Stage 1

### 2016

    5th Kampioenschap van Vlaanderen

### 2018

    5th Halle–Ingooigem

### 2019

    6th Scheldeprijs

### Grand Tour general classification results timeline

| Grand Tour | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 |
| Giro d'Italia | — | — | — | — |
| Tour de France | 115 | DNF | — | — |
| Vuelta a España | — | — | — | DNF |