Jos van Emden

Jos van Emden (born 18 February 1985) is a Dutch professional road bicycle racer, who rides for UCI WorldTeam . He is known as a time-trial specialist.
Career
Born in Schiedam, Van Emden started racing in 2005. During his second year, he won four stages in three different races, became the overall winner of two other stage races and finished seventh in the under-23 road race at the 2006 UCI Road World Championships. The next year, he achieved his first professional victory when he won the Münsterland Giro.
His debut in a Grand Tour came in 2009, when he took part in the Giro d'Italia. One year later, he finished ninth in two different stages of that same race, and achieved two time-trial victories in one week, winning the prologues of the Delta Tour Zeeland and the Ster ZLM Toer. Later that year, he was the winner of the Dutch National Time Trial Championships.
Van Emden made international headlines when he proposed to his girlfriend during a time-trial stage of the 2014 Giro d'Italia. After she accepted, he finished the stage 120th out of 156 starters.
In 2015, Van Emden finished second in the time trial stage of the Tour of California, sitting in the leader's hot seat all day before being beaten by Peter Sagan. Two months later, Van Emden participated in his first Tour de France; he finished fifth in the opening time-trial that took place in his home country. His biggest victory for the time being came when he won the time trial stage of the Eneco Tour, subsequently gaining the right to wear the leader's jersey.
He was named in the startlist for the 2016 Vuelta a España.
In 2019 Van Emden won the Dutch National Time Trial Championships for the second time.
Major results
Source:
2006
1st Overall Roserittet DNV GP
1st Stage 1
1st Overall Triptyque des Barrages
1st Stage 2 (ITT)
Grand Prix Guillaume Tell
1st Prologue & Stage 1
1st Stage 1 Tour du Loir-et-Cher
3rd Overall Tour de Normandie
1st Stage 4
3rd Ronde van Overijssel
National Under-23 Road Championships
4th Time trial
5th Road race
4th Paris–Tours Espoirs
5th Omloop van het Waasland
6th Ronde van Noord-Holland
7th Road race, UCI Under-23 Road World Championships
8th Time trial, UEC European Under-23 Road Championships
2007
1st Münsterland Giro
1st Prologue (TTT) Tour Alsace
National Under-23 Road Championships
2nd Time trial
3rd Road race
2008
1st Stage 1 Rhône-Alpes Isère Tour
1st Stage 5 Vuelta Ciclista a León
5th Overall Olympia's Tour
5th Ronde van Drenthe
7th Overall Le Triptyque des Monts et Châteaux
7th Halle–Ingooigem
8th Overall Tour de Normandie
1st Stage 7
9th Overall Boucles de la Mayenne
2009
8th Kampioenschap van Vlaanderen
10th Overall Sachsen Tour
2010
1st Time trial, National Road Championships
1st Prologue Ster ZLM Toer
2nd Overall Delta Tour Zeeland
1st Young rider classification
1st Prologue
2nd Hel van het Mergelland
2011
1st Stadsprijs Geraardsbergen
3rd Overall Delta Tour Zeeland
1st Prologue
5th Overall Eneco Tour
2013
1st Münsterland Giro
4th Overall Tour of Hainan
2014
3rd Time trial, National Road Championships
3rd Arnhem–Veenendaal Classic
9th Overall Ster ZLM Toer
10th Paris–Tours
2015
1st Stage 4 (ITT) Eneco Tour
3rd Time trial, National Road Championships
6th Overall Tour du Poitou-Charentes
2016
2nd Time trial, National Road Championships
3rd Overall Ster ZLM Toer
1st Stage 1 (ITT)
5th Overall Eneco Tour
8th Time trial, UCI Road World Championships
2017
1st Dwars door West-Vlaanderen
1st Stage 21 (ITT) Giro d'Italia
4th Time trial, National Road Championships
5th Time trial, UEC European Road Championships
6th Overall Tour of Britain
8th Le Samyn
2018
1st Stage 5 (TTT) Tour of Britain
5th Time trial, National Road Championships
8th Time trial, UEC European Road Championships
10th Paris–Tours
2019
1st Team relay, UCI Road World Championships
1st Time trial, National Road Championships
1st Chrono des Nations
1st Stage 1 (TTT) UAE Tour
3rd Binche–Chimay–Binche
8th Overall ZLM Tour
1st Prologue
8th Time trial, UEC European Road Championships
2020
5th Road race, National Road Championships
2021
2nd Team relay, UCI Road World Championships
3rd Team relay, UEC European Road Championships
2022
4th Time trial, National Road Championships
9th Time trial, UEC European Road Championships
2023
1st Time trial, National Road Championships
Grand Tour general classification results timeline
Major championship results
References
External links
1985 births
Living people
Dutch male cyclists
Dutch cycling time trial champions
Dutch Giro d'Italia stage winners
UCI Road World Championships cyclists for the Netherlands
Sportspeople from Schiedam
Cyclists from South Holland
UCI Road World Champions (elite men)