# Jasper Philipsen

Jasper Philipsen (born 2 March 1998) is a Belgian professional cyclist who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Alpecin–Deceuninck. Specialising as a sprinter, he has won nine stages in the Tour de France and three in the Vuelta a España, and the points classification in the 2023 Tour de France.

## Career
### Early years

From 2010, Philipsen rode for the Royal Balen BC team. In 2015, he became national junior time trial champion. Later that year, he finished eighth at the European championships in the same discipline and sixth at the world championships. One year on, Philipsen won the Guido Reybrouck Classic and E3 Harelbeke for juniors, and successfully defended his national time trial title. In addition, in the same year he finished fifth in Paris-Roubaix for juniors and 11th in the Omloop der Vlaamse Gewesten. Philipsen made the cut for both the time trial and the road race at the world championships in Doha. Upon the time trial, in which he set the 18th fastest time, he was hospitalised with exhaustion and overheating. Although Philipsen appeared to have convalesced, he didn't make the road race three days later.
On 1 April 2017, Philipsen secured his first UCI victory as an elite rider, for the BMC Development Team team. In the second stage of the Triptyque des Monts et Châteaux, he beat fellow-Belgian Milan Menten and Dutchman Maarten van Trijp in the bunch sprint. The day after, courtesy to a fifth place in the individual time trial, he snatched the leader's jersey from Chris Lawless. In the final stage, he finished fourth, taking not only the overall classification, but also the points ranking and youth classification. After finishing second in both the Tour of Flanders U23 and the ZLM Tour, he won a stage in the Baby Giro in June. In the points ranking, he kept one point ahead of Neilson Powless. In July, he won the second stage in the Tour of Alsace, after which he rode the hopefuls road races at both the European and national level. In the fifth stage of the Olympia's Tour, he beat Patrick van der Duin and Fabio Jakobsen in the bunch sprint. In October, he won Paris–Tours Espoirs.

### Professional career

In 2018, Philipsen became professional at Hagens Berman Axeon. He took several victories that year, including the overall classification of the Triptyque des Monts et Châteaux and a stage in the Baby Giro. In October, he was offered a contract with UAE Team Emirates. Through this team, he made the switch to the World Tour.
Philipsen made the startlist for the 2019 Tour de France. He participated in the 2020 Vuelta a España, where he won stage 15. He participated in his second Tour de France in 2021 and while he did not win any stages he had many promising results including making the stage podium a half dozen times. He rode in the 2021 Vuelta a España where he won two stages. He also wore the points ranking jersey in several stages, vying with Fabio Jakobsen for the jersey, before abandoned halfway through due to a mild fever.
Early in the 2022 season he won the points ranking and two stages of the UAE Tour. He then won the points ranking and a stage in the Tour of Turkey and a stage in the Tour of Belgium.
He entered the 2022 Tour de France with the team pursuing stage wins for both Philipsen and Mathieu van der Poel. Philipsen initially thought he had won stage 4, but Wout Van Aert turned out to have taken the peloton by surprise, attacking as the yellow jersey. After the Alps he got a chance to win stage 15 after the final breakaway rider had been run down during the final kilometre. He managed to outpace previous stage winners Van Aert and Mads Pedersen, taking the team's first win of the race. His second stage win came on the final day in Paris, winning the sprint by a convincing margin.
In March 2023, he won his second World Tour one-day race: the Classic Brugge–De Panne, outsprinting Olav Kooij and Yves Lampaert only a week after winning two stages of Tirreno–Adriatico. Two weeks later, he won Scheldeprijs for the second time. Five days later, he outkicked Wout Van Aert to take second at Paris–Roubaix. This was his first podium in a Monument. At the Tour de France, he won stages 3, 4, 7 and 11, all of which were sprint finishes. This led him to ultimately win the points classification by over 100 points to second placed Mads Pedersen. Philipsen went on to win nine more races in the season, leading to a total of 19 victories.
Philipsen began his 2024 season in a similar fashion, winning one stage and finishing second in another at Tirreno–Adriatico. He then won his first Monument: Milan–San Remo in a sprint finish, ahead of Michael Matthews and Tadej Pogačar. Four days later, he defended his title at the Classic Brugge–De Panne, and again had a repeat of last year at Paris–Roubaix, where he again placed second to teammate Mathieu van der Poel. After three second place finishes in a row on sprint stages, Philipsen won stage 10 of the 2024 Tour de France, his first of the Tour. He went on to also win stages 13 and 16.
Philipsen began 2025 by racing the UAE Tour, finishing in second on the first stage and third on another. He finished third in Omloop Het Nieuwsblad behind Søren Wærenskjold and Paul Magnier before securing his first victory of the season at the Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne ahead of Olav Kooij, winning the race on his 27th birthday.

## Riding style

Sports journalists occasionally compare Jasper Philipsen to Tom Boonen, as both hail from the same region in Flanders and are routinely qualified as sprinters, specialising in classics.
   "Philipsen is not only fast, he also always seems to position himself very well during bunch sprints. We are talking about making good decisions in a split second, while racing at more than 70 km per hour. This also proves he's still in a top condition at those moments. One makes easier mistakes when exhausted."
Philipsen is one of the most prolific cyclists of his generation. By 2022, several international specialized media considered him to be the best sprinter in the world.
He drew some criticism for his riding style during the 2023 Tour de France, as he appeared to interfere with other riders on several stages. This criticism reemerged during the 2024 Tour, as he was relegated to the back of the peleton for interfering with Wout van Aert in a bunch sprint; costing him green jersey points as he had originally finished second. During his first race of his 2025 season, he was relegated for deviating from his line yet again, this time during a second-place finish in the UAE Tour.

## Major results
### 2015

    1st Time trial, National Junior Road Championships
    2nd Omloop der Vlaamse Gewesten
    3rd Guido Reybrouck Classic
    4th La Philippe Gilbert Juniors
    4th Paris–Roubaix Juniors
    5th Overall Trophée Centre Morbihan

### 2016

    1st Time trial, National Junior Road Championships
    1st E3 Harelbeke Juniors
    1st Guido Reybrouck Classic
    3rd Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne Juniors
    5th Paris–Roubaix Juniors
    10th Overall Grand Prix Rüebliland

### 2017

    1st Overall Le Triptyque des Monts et Châteaux
       1st Stage 2
       1st Points classification
       1st Young rider classification
    1st Paris–Tours Espoirs
    Giro Ciclistico d'Italia
       1st Points classification
       1st Stage 4
    1st Stage 2 Tour Alsace
    1st Stage 5 Olympia's Tour
    2nd Ronde van Vlaanderen Beloften
    2nd ZLM Tour
    4th Berner Rundfahrt

### 2018 (1 pro win)

    1st Overall Le Triptyque des Monts et Châteaux
       1st Points classification
       1st Stages 1 & 2
    1st Gylne Gutuer
    1st Stage 4 Tour of Utah
    1st Stage 3 Giro Ciclistico d'Italia
    3rd Three Days of Bruges–De Panne
    4th Tour de l'Eurométropole
    4th Paris–Roubaix Espoirs
    5th Dorpenomloop Rucphen
    6th Grote Prijs Jef Scherens
    7th Grand Prix d'Isbergues
    8th Primus Classic
    9th Lillehammer GP

### 2019 (1)

    1st Stage 5 Tour Down Under
    2nd Grand Prix de Fourmies
    2nd Heistse Pijl
    3rd Nokere Koerse
    3rd Elfstedenronde
    3rd Brussels Cycling Classic
    5th Dwars door het Hageland
    6th Overall Tour of Belgium
    9th Scheldeprijs

### 2020 (3)

    1st Stage 15 Vuelta a España
    1st Stage 1 BinckBank Tour
    1st Stage 3 Tour du Limousin
    1st Sprints classification, Tour Down Under
    5th Scheldeprijs
    5th Brussels Cycling Classic
    9th Druivenkoers Overijse

### 2021 (9)

    1st Kampioenschap van Vlaanderen
    1st Eschborn–Frankfurt
    1st Scheldeprijs
    1st Grand Prix de Denain
    1st Paris–Chauny
    Vuelta a España
       1st Stages 2 & 5
       Held after Stages 2–3, 5–7
    Tour of Turkey
       1st Points classification
       1st Stages 6 & 7
    2nd Classic Brugge–De Panne

### 2022 (9)

    1st Omloop van het Houtland
    1st Paris–Bourges
    Tour de France
       1st Stages 15 & 21
    UAE Tour
       1st Points classification
       1st Stages 1 & 5
    Tour of Turkey
       1st Points classification
       1st Stage 3
    1st Stage 4 Danmark Rundt
    2nd Münsterland Giro
    2nd Gooikse Pijl
    3rd Road race, National Road Championships
    4th Druivenkoers Overijse
    6th Hamburg Cyclassics
    6th Rund um Köln
    6th Grand Prix de Wallonie
    8th Overall Tour of Belgium
       1st Stage 2
    8th Scheldeprijs

### 2023 (19)

    1st Kampioenschap van Vlaanderen
    1st Classic Brugge–De Panne
    1st Scheldeprijs
    1st Elfstedenronde
    1st Gooikse Pijl
    1st Paris–Chauny
    1st Visit Friesland Elfsteden Race
    Tour de France
       1st Points classification
       1st Stages 3, 4, 7 & 11
    Tour of Turkey
       1st Points classification
       1st Stages 1, 2, 4 & 8
    Tirreno–Adriatico
       1st Stages 3 & 7
    1st Stage 1 Renewi Tour
    1st Stage 1 Tour of Belgium
    2nd Paris–Roubaix
    4th Dwars door Vlaanderen

### 2024 (9)

    1st Milan–San Remo
    1st Classic Brugge–De Panne
    1st Münsterland Giro
    Tour de France
       1st Stages 10, 13 & 16
    1st Stage 2 Tirreno–Adriatico
    2nd Road race, National Road Championships
    2nd Paris–Roubaix
    2nd Scheldeprijs
    3rd Paris–Tours
    3rd Nokere Koerse
    3rd Kampioenschap van Vlaanderen
    4th Road race, UEC European Road Championships
    4th Overall Tour of Belgium
       1st Points classification
       1st Stage 3
    4th Gent–Wevelgem
    4th Binche–Chimay–Binche
    6th Overall Renewi Tour
       1st Points classification
       1st Stage 4
    7th Hamburg Cyclassics

### 2025 (1)

    1st Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne
    3rd Omloop Het Nieuwsblad

### Grand Tour general classification results timeline

| Grand Tour | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
| Giro d'Italia | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Tour de France | DNF | — | 109 | 91 | 97 | 128 |
| Vuelta a España | — | 85 | DNF | — | — | — |

### Classics results timeline

| Monument | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
| Milan–San Remo | — | 150 | — | — | 66 | 15 | 1 | |
| Tour of Flanders | — | DNF | — | — | DNF | — | — | |
| Paris–Roubaix | — | DNF | NH | 41 | — | 2 | 2 | |
| Liège–Bastogne–Liège | Has not contested during his career | Has not contested during his career | Has not contested during his career | Has not contested during his career | Has not contested during his career | Has not contested during his career | Has not contested during his career | Has not contested during his career |
| Giro di Lombardia | Has not contested during his career | Has not contested during his career | Has not contested during his career | Has not contested during his career | Has not contested during his career | Has not contested during his career | Has not contested during his career | Has not contested during his career |
| Classic | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
| Omloop Het Nieuwsblad | — | 37 | — | 124 | — | 33 | 66 | 3 |
| Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne | — | 24 | 122 | — | — | DNF | 92 | 1 |
| Brugge–De Panne | 3 | — | — | 2 | — | 1 | 1 | |
| Gent–Wevelgem | — | — | 47 | 38 | 21 | DNF | 4 | |
| Dwars door Vlaanderen | — | 142 | NH | 57 | 29 | 4 | 15 | |
| Scheldeprijs | — | 9 | 5 | 1 | 8 | 1 | 2 | |
| Eschborn–Frankfurt | — | — | NH | 1 | 11 | DNF | — | |
| Hamburg Cyclassics | — | 34 | NH | — | 6 | — | 7 | |
| Paris–Tours | — | — | — | 12 | DNF | — | 3 | |
Legend :
| — | Did not compete |
| DNF | Did not finish |

### Honours and awards

* CyclingNews: Best Sprinter in the World: 2021, 2022, 2023
* Most Victories in 1 Season: 19 in 2023
* Flandrien of the Year – Best Professional Cyclist: 2023