Thalita de Jong

Thalita de Jong (born 6 November 1993) is a Dutch racing cyclist, who currently rides for Dutch amateur team JEGG–DJR Academy. In 2016, de Jong won the elite women's title at the Dutch National Cyclo-cross Championships, the UEC European Cyclo-cross Championships and the UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships.
Career
She competed in the 2013 UCI women's team time trial in Florence. She won gold at the 2016 UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships in Zolder, Belgium.
After five years with , in August 2016 announced that de Jong would join them for the 2017 season, leading the team on the road and in cyclo-cross. De Jong suffered a 2017 cyclocross season ending injury, falling at the Grand Prix Adrie van der Poel. Medical issues plagued her 2017 road season, by the end of the year, de Jong signed with the former as it became in 2018. During the 2019 season, she joined the . She remained with the team until early in the 2022 season. Following several top-five finishes in the spring with JEGG–DJR Academy, de Jong will join from June, a team she had previously turned professional with.
Personal life
She is the older sister of fellow professional cyclist, Demi de Jong.
Major results
Cyclo-cross
2015–2016
1st UCI World Championships
1st National Championships
Bpost Bank Trophy
1st Sint-Niklaas
2nd Essen
1st Bredene
1st Ardooie
1st Pétange
1st Contern
UCI World Cup
2nd Hoogerheide
2016–2017
1st UEC European Championships
UCI World Cup
1st Cauberg
Superprestige
1st Spa-Francorchamps
Brico Cross
1st Bredene
1st Zonnebeke
1st Contern
2nd Overall DVV Trophy
1st Ronse
2nd Koppenberg
3rd Hamme
3rd Essen
3rd Loenhout
3rd Baal
2017–2018
1st Zonnebeke
1st Leudelange
2nd Leuven
2019–2020
2nd Contern
Road
2011
National Junior Road Championships
1st Time trial
3rd Road race
8th Overall Tour de Bretagne
2012
1st Time trial, Zuid-West-Nederland District Road Championships
3rd Open de Suède Vårgårda TTT
4th Time trial, UEC European Under-23 Road Championships
2013
2nd Team time trial, UCI Road World Championships
2nd Overall Tour de Bretagne
1st Young rider classification
2nd Open de Suède Vårgårda TTT
UEC European Under-23 Road Championships
6th Time trial
9th Road race
10th GP Leende
2014
2nd Open de Suède Vårgårda TTT
3rd Overall Belgium Tour
1st Sprints classification
1st Young rider classification
1st Stage 2 (TTT)
UEC European Under-23 Road Championships
4th Time trial
4th Road race
4th Dwars door de Westhoek
4th Ronde van Gelderland
4th Omloop van het Hageland
6th Overall Festival Luxembourgeois Elsy Jacobs
10th Overall Tour of Norway
2015
1st Erondegemse Pijl
1st Crescent World Cup Vårgårda TTT
2nd Grote Prijs De Wielkeszuigers
3rd Team time trial, UCI Road World Championships
UEC European Under-23 Road Championships
3rd Time trial
4th Road race
3rd GP Gippingen
4th Overall Holland Tour
1st Young rider classficiation
1st Stage 6
10th Holland Hills Classic
2016
1st Stage 9 Giro Rosa
2nd Overall Tour of Norway
1st Young rider classficiation
3rd Erondegemse Pijl
6th Overall Giro del Trentino
1st Points classification
1st Stages 2a (TTT) & 2b
2017
5th Dwars door Vlaanderen
2021
1st Grote Prijs Beerens
5th Overall Festival Elsy Jacobs
1st Mountains classification
7th Overall Tour International de l'Ardèche
2022
1st Ronde de Mouscron
3rd Volta Limburg Classic
4th Drentse Acht van Westerveld
5th Leiedal Koerse
See also
2012 Rabobank Women Cycling Team season
2014 Rabo–Liv Women Cycling Team season
References
External links
Thalita de Jong at Cross Results
1993 births
Living people
Dutch female cyclists
Sportspeople from Bergen op Zoom
UCI Road World Championships cyclists for the Netherlands
Cyclists from North Brabant
UCI Cyclo-cross World Champions (women)
21st-century Dutch women
21st-century Dutch people