# Victor Campenaerts

Victor Campenaerts (born 28 October 1991) is a Belgian racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Visma–Lease a Bike.

## Career

He rode in the 2014 UCI Road World Championships. In September 2015 it was announced that he would join the UCI World Tour ranks in 2016 with LottoNL–Jumbo. He was named in the startlist for the 2016 Vuelta a España and the start list for the 2017 Giro d'Italia.
On 16 April 2019, at the Aguascalientes Bicentenary Velodrome in Aguascalientes, Mexico, Campenaerts broke the hour record, riding 55.089 kilometres (34.231 miles), surpassing Bradley Wiggins' previous mark set on 7 June 2015 by 563 metres (1,847 feet). In doing so, he became the fourth Belgian cyclist to hold the hour record, after Oscar Van den Eynde (1897–98), Ferdinand Bracke (1967–68) and Eddy Merckx (1972–2000).
Campenaerts rejoined Lotto–Soudal, on a 3 year contract, in 2022 after 2 years away at Team Qhubeka NextHash.
Riding for the now renamed Lotto–Dstny, Campenaerts rode the 2023 Tour de France. Upon the race's conclusion in Paris, he was selected as the winner of the race's super-combativity award, as the most combative rider overall during the race. Campenaerts made the breakaway 5 times during the race, including on stages 18 and 19, which had both been forecast as sprint finishes. Campenaerts played a big role in each stage's successful breakaway, helping his teammates and holding off the charging peloton.
He continued with Lotto–Dstny into the 2024 Tour de France, at which he won Stage 18.
On 26 August 2024 Visma–Lease a Bike announced that Campenaerts would return to their team for the 2025 season, he signed a contract for three years. He rode for this team previously when it was called LottoNL–Jumbo.

## Major results
### Road
#### 2013

    1st Time trial, UEC European Under-23 Championships
    1st Time trial, National Under-23 Championships
    4th Overall Vuelta a la Comunidad de Madrid Sub 23
    8th Time trial, UCI World Under-23 Championships
    8th Antwerpse Havenpijl

#### 2015

    1st Duo Normand (with Jelle Wallays)
    2nd Overall Tour de Wallonie
       1st Young rider classification
    4th Overall Ster ZLM Toer
    5th Time trial, National Championships
    10th Overall Boucles de la Mayenne

#### 2016 (1 pro win)

    1st Time trial, National Championships
    2nd Time trial, UEC European Championships

#### 2017 (2)

    1st Time trial, UEC European Championships
    1st Stage 3 (ITT) Vuelta a Andalucía
    2nd Time trial, National Championships
    4th Overall Tour of Britain
    5th Chrono des Nations
    9th Brabantse Pijl
    10th Rund um Köln

#### 2018 (2)

    1st Time trial, UEC European Championships
    1st Time trial, National Championships
    3rd Time trial, UCI World Championships

#### 2019 (2)

    1st Stage 7 (ITT) Tirreno–Adriatico
    2nd Overall Tour of Belgium
       1st Stage 4
    4th Time trial, National Championships

#### 2020

    2nd Time trial, National Championships
    3rd Time trial, UEC European Championships
    8th Time trial, UCI World Championships

#### 2021 (1)

    1st Stage 15 Giro d'Italia
    3rd Time trial, National Championships
    3rd Overall Benelux Tour
    10th Road race, UEC European Championships

#### 2022 (1)

    1st Tour of Leuven
    1st Mountains classification, Tour de Wallonie
    3rd Time trial, National Championships
    3rd Circuit Franco-Belge
    4th Dwars door Vlaanderen
    5th Overall Tour of Belgium
    5th Omloop Het Nieuwsblad
    6th Le Samyn

#### 2023 (2)

    1st Druivenkoers Overijse
    1st Stage 4 (ITT) Tour de Luxembourg
    6th Tour of Leuven
    Tour de France
       Combativity award Stages 18, 19 & Overall

#### 2024 (1)

    1st Stage 18 Tour de France
    6th Time trial, UEC European Championships
    9th Time trial, UCI World Championships

#### 2025

    1st Stage 3 (TTT) Paris–Nice

#### Grand Tour general classification results timeline

| Grand Tour | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
| Giro d'Italia | — | DNF | DNF | 111 | 95 | DNF | — | — | — |
| Tour de France | — | — | — | — | — | DNF | — | 64 | 81 |
| Vuelta a España | 143 | — | 102 | — | — | — | — | — | 111 |
Legend :
| — | Did not compete |
| DNF | Did not finish |

### Track
#### 2015

    3rd Individual pursuit, National Championships

#### 2016

    1st Individual pursuit, National Championships

#### 2019

    Hour record: 55.089 km