# Jasper Stuyven

Jasper Stuyven (born 17 April 1992) is a Belgian professional racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Lidl–Trek. He is considered to be a classics specialist, and has won several major races including the 2021 Milan–San Remo, one of cycling's monuments, the 2020 Omloop Het Nieuwsblad and the 2016 Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne. He has also had success in stage races, winning the overall classification of the 2019 Deutschland Tour as well as a stage of the 2015 Vuelta a España. Stuyven has also competed in six editions of the Tour de France, finishing on the podium several times on different stages.

## Career
### Juniors

Born in Leuven, Stuyven had a successful career as a junior rider. In 2009, at age 17, he won the UCI Junior World Road Race Championships. 2010 brought Stuyven more successes when he won one day races Paris-Roubaix Juniors and Remouchamps–Ferrières–Remouchamps.

### Early years

He began his professional career at age 20 for Bontrager–Livestrong; he earned four victories with the team, including the Volta ao Alentejo.

### Trek Factory Racing (2014–present)
#### 2014

Stuyven joined UCI WorldTeam Trek Factory Racing in 2014 at the age of 22. During this season, he rode in his first grand tour, the Vuelta a España. In this race, he earned fourth place in three stages and finished ninth in the points classification.

#### 2015

2015 brought Stuyven his biggest victory yet, when he won stage 8 of the Vuelta a España in a reduced bunch sprint. Stuyven had been involved in a crash earlier in the stage and he was forced to withdraw from the race after the stage with a broken scaphoid.

#### 2016

In 2016, he won the Belgian one-day race Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne by breaking away solo for the last 17 kilometres (11 miles) of the race. Stuyven also earned a fifth place at the E3 Harelbeke. He was named in the start list for the Tour de France where he held the polka-dot jersey as leader of the mountains classification for two days.

#### 2017

Stuyven was part of the 5 man leading group at Paris–Roubaix, and finished fourth in the sprint finish behind Greg Van Avermaet of BMC Racing Team. He rode in the Giro d'Italia. In stage six, Stuyven finished second behind Silvan Dillier of BMC Racing Team after the pair had been part of a five-man breakaway that rode clear of the peloton for almost all of the 217-kilometre (135-mile) stage. Stuyven finished the race in 98th place overall, and was second in the points classification behind Fernando Gaviria of Quick-Step Floors.

#### 2018

In 2018, Stuyven finished in the top 10 in many of the spring classics, including 4th place in Omloop Het Nieuwsblad, and 5th in Paris–Roubaix, being part of the chase group with Sep Vanmarcke and defending champion Greg Van Avermaet. In the Tour de France, he came close to winning stage 14 but was overtaken on the last climb by eventual stage winner Omar Fraile with less than 3 kilometres (1.9 miles) to go; for his efforts, however, he walked away with the day's combativity award. In September, he first won the Grand Prix de Wallonie, before winning his home town race in Leuven, the Grote Prijs Jef Scherens.

#### 2019

In late August, Stuyven won the Deutschland Tour after taking the overall lead on stage 3. He carried his good form into the autumn classics with several top ten results, including two podium finishes at the Grand Prix de Wallonie and the Tour de l'Eurométropole.

#### 2020

Before the COVID-19 pandemic shut down the 2020 road cycling season, Stuyven got off to a strong start. In the opening weekend of the Belgian road cycling season, he won Omloop Het Nieuwsblad, beating fellow Belgian Yves Lampaert in a two-up sprint, before finishing fifth in Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne the day after. Once racing resumed, he bookended August with a pair of fifth-place finishes in the Circuito de Getxo on 2 August and then in the UEC European Road Championships road race on 26 August.

#### 2021

On 20 March, Stuyven won Milan-San Remo for his first Monument victory. With three kilometers left, he attacked at the bottom of the descent of the Poggio, the last climb in the race. Many of the main pre-race favorites in the lead group were hesitant to chase him down, though Søren Kragh Andersen managed to bridge across to Stuyven in the final kilometer. With the group closing down the duo, Stuyven launched out of Kragh Andersen's slipstream in the last 200 meters. Though he was on his limit, he held on for the win on the line just ahead of the chasing group, led home by Caleb Ewan ahead of defending champion Wout van Aert.

## Personal life

Stuyven studied at the Sint-Pieterscollege in Leuven. Outside of cycling, he and his uncle Ivan, an experienced chocolatier, run a small chocolate boutique in Betekom named Chocolade Atelier Stuyven that opened in 2016 and often produces many cycling-themed pieces.

## Major results
### Road
#### 2009

    1st Road race, UCI World Junior Championships
    2nd Overall Giro della Toscana
    3rd Overall Driedaagse van Axel
    4th Overall Keizer der Juniores

#### 2010

    1st Paris–Roubaix Juniors
    1st Remouchamps–Ferrières–Remouchamps
    1st Stage 4 3 Giorni Orobica
    3rd Road race, UCI World Junior Championships
    4th Overall Driedaagse van Axel
       1st Stage 3

#### 2011

    2nd Paris–Roubaix Espoirs

#### 2012

    1st Stage 3 Cascade Classic
    7th Grand Prix de Wallonie

#### 2013

    1st Overall Volta ao Alentejo
       1st Points classification
       1st Young rider classification
       1st Stage 2
    1st Stage 1 Tour de Beauce
    3rd Grote Prijs Jef Scherens
    3rd Liège–Bastogne–Liège Espoirs

#### 2015 (1 pro win)

    1st Stage 8 Vuelta a España

#### 2016 (1)

    1st Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne
    5th E3 Harelbeke
    9th Omloop Het Nieuwsblad
    Tour de France
       Held after Stages 2–4
       Combativity award Stage 2

#### 2017 (1)

    2nd Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne
    3rd Road race, National Championships
    3rd Overall BinckBank Tour
       1st Stage 7
    4th Paris–Roubaix
    5th Brussels Cycling Classic
    6th Japan Cup
    7th Eschborn-Frankfurt – Rund um den Finanzplatz
    7th EuroEyes Cyclassics
    8th Omloop Het Nieuwsblad

#### 2018 (3)

    1st Grand Prix de Wallonie
    1st Grote Prijs Jef Scherens
    2nd Brussels Cycling Classic
    3rd Road race, National Championships
    3rd Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec
    3rd Kampioenschap van Vlaanderen
    4th Omloop Het Nieuwsblad
    5th Paris–Roubaix
    6th E3 Harelbeke
    7th Tour of Flanders
    9th Gent–Wevelgem
    9th Halle–Ingooigem
    10th Overall BinckBank Tour
       1st Stage 4
    10th Milan–San Remo
    10th Dwars door Vlaanderen
    10th Tour de l'Eurométropole
    Combativity award Stage 14 Tour de France

#### 2019 (1)

    1st Overall Deutschland Tour
    2nd Grand Prix de Wallonie
    3rd Tour de l'Eurométropole
    4th London–Surrey Classic
    5th Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec
    5th Brussels Cycling Classic
    6th Binche–Chimay–Binche
    6th Grand Prix de Fourmies

#### 2020 (1)

    1st Omloop Het Nieuwsblad
    5th Road race, UEC European Championships
    5th Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne
    5th Circuito de Getxo

#### 2021 (1)

    1st Milan–San Remo
    3rd Paris–Tours
    3rd Primus Classic
    4th Road race, UCI World Championships
    4th Tour of Flanders
    7th Overall Benelux Tour
    7th Bretagne Classic
    10th Dwars door Vlaanderen

#### 2022

    4th Gent–Wevelgem
    7th Paris–Roubaix
    9th Overall Danmark Rundt
    9th Classic Brugge–De Panne
    10th Omloop Het Nieuwsblad

#### 2023

    3rd Road race, National Championships
    4th Overall Renewi Tour
    5th Overall Tour of Belgium
    6th Road race, UCI World Championships
    7th Kampioenschap van Vlaanderen
    10th Milan–San Remo
    10th Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne

#### 2024

    2nd E3 Saxo Classic
    5th Overall Tour of Belgium
    7th Omloop Het Nieuwsblad
    8th Milan–San Remo
    10th Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne
    Combativity award Stage 9 Tour de France

#### Grand Tour general classification results timeline

| Grand Tour | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
| Giro d'Italia | — | — | — | 98 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 92 |
| Tour de France | — | — | 99 | — | 63 | 43 | 71 | 39 | 80 | 79 | 61 |
| Vuelta a España | 88 | DNF | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |

#### Classics results timeline

| Monument | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
| Milan–San Remo | — | — | — | 39 | 10 | 79 | — | 1 | — | 10 | 8 | |
| Tour of Flanders | 61 | 32 | 118 | 51 | 7 | 19 | 26 | 4 | 50 | 26 | — | |
| Paris–Roubaix | 55 | 49 | 39 | 4 | 5 | 27 | NH | 25 | 7 | 20 | — | |
| 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 | 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 | — | — | DNF | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Classic | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
| Omloop Het Nieuwsblad | — | — | 9 | 8 | 4 | 40 | 1 | 83 | 10 | 58 | 7 | 48 |
| Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne | — | — | 1 | 2 | 38 | DNS | 5 | 22 | 15 | 10 | 10 | 38 |
| E3 Harelbeke | DNF | — | 5 | DNF | 6 | 58 | NH | 14 | 15 | 50 | 2 | |
| Gent–Wevelgem | — | — | — | 46 | 9 | 17 | 38 | — | 4 | 36 | 41 | |
| Dwars door Vlaanderen | 33 | — | 20 | — | 10 | 14 | NH | 10 | — | 34 | DNF | |
| Bretagne Classic | — | — | 47 | DNF | — | — | — | 7 | — | — | 49 | |
| Grand Prix Cycliste de Quebec | — | — | 50 | 18 | 3 | 5 | Not held | Not held | 76 | — | — | |
| Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal | — | — | 12 | 14 | 14 | 29 | Not held | Not held | 62 | — | — | |
| Paris–Tours | 37 | 101 | — | — | — | — | — | 3 | — | 37 | — | |

#### Major championships timeline

| Event | Event | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
| World Championships | Road race | — | — | 24 | 89 | — | — | DNF | 4 | 47 | 6 | DNF |
| European Championships | Road race | Did not exist | Did not exist | — | — | 12 | — | 5 | — | — | 12 | — |
| National Championships | Road race | 6 | — | DNF | 3 | 3 | 23 | 55 | 8 | 63 | 3 | 17 |
Legend :
| — | Did not compete |
| DNF | Did not finish |

### Gravel
#### 2023

    1st UEC European Championships
    1st National Championships

#### 2024

    4th UCI World Championships