Jasper Philipsen
.jpg) Philipsen, Gent. Omloop Het Nieuwsblad 2023. | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Jasper Philipsen |
| Nickname | Jasper Disaster[1] |
| Born | 2 March 1998 Mol, Flanders, Belgium |
| Height | 1.76 m (5 ft 9+1⁄2 in)[2] |
| Weight | 75 kg (165 lb; 11 st 11 lb)[2] |
| Team information | |
| Current team | Alpecin–Deceuninck |
| Discipline | Road |
| Role | Sprinter |
| Amateur team | |
| 2017 | BMC Development Team |
| Professional teams | |
| 2018 | Hagens Berman Axeon[3] |
| 2019–2020 | UAE Team Emirates[4][5] |
| 2021– | Alpecin–Fenix |
| Major wins | |
Grand Tours
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Jasper Philipsen (born 2 March 1998) is a Belgian professional cyclist who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Alpecin–Deceuninck.[6][7] Specialising as a sprinter, he won several stages in the Tour de France and Vuelta a España.
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.[8] 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.[9]
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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.[10] 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.[11]
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.[12][13] 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.[14] He participated in the 2020 Vuelta a España,[15] 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.[16] 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.[17]
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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 had 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.[18] His second stage win came on the final day in Paris, winning the sprint by a convincing margin.
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In March 2023, he won his second World Tour one-day race: the Classic Brugge–De Panne, outsprinting Olav Kooij and Yves Lampaert.[19] Two weeks later, he won Scheldeprijs for the second time. Five days later, he outkicked Wout Van Aert to take second at Paris–Roubaix.[20] This was his first podium in a Monument. At the 2023 Tour de France, he won stages 3, 4, 7 and 11, all of which were sprint finishes.[21] This led to ultimately win the points classification by over 100 points to second placed Mads Pedersen.
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.[22]
"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."
Eddy Planckaert on Philipsen in 2023 [23]
Philipsen is one of the most explosive cyclists of his generation.[24] By 2022, several international specialized media considered him to be the best sprinter in the world.[25][26]
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.[27]
Honours and awards[edit] CyclingNews: Best Sprinter in the World: 2021, 2022, 2023[28] Most Victories in 1 Season: 18 in 2023[29] Flandrien of the Year – Best Professional Cyclist: 2023[30]
If we look at the results listed on this page, he had 19 victories in 2023, should this not be corrected?
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
- 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
- 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
- 1st
- 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
- 1st
- Tour of Turkey
- 1st Points classification
- 1st Stage 3
- 1st
- 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
- 1st
- Tour of Turkey
- 1st Points classification
- 1st Stages 1, 2, 4 & 8
- 1st
- 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 (3)
- 1st Milan–San Remo
- 1st Classic Brugge–De Panne
- 1st Stage 2 Tirreno–Adriatico
- 3rd Nokere Koerse
- 4th Gent–Wevelgem
Grand Tour general classification results timeline
| Grand Tour | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Giro d'Italia
|
— | — | — | — | — |
 Tour de France
|
DNF | — | 109 | 91 | 97 |
 Vuelta a España
|
— | 85 | DNF | — | — |
Classics results timeline
| Monument | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Milan–San Remo | — | 150 | — | — | 66 | 15 | 1 | |||
| Tour of Flanders | — | DNF | — | — | DNF | — | ||||
| Paris–Roubaix | — | DNF | NH | 41 | — | 2 | ||||
| Liège–Bastogne–Liège | Has not contested during his career | |||||||||
| Giro di Lombardia | ||||||||||
| Classic | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | |||
| Omloop Het Nieuwsblad | — | 37 | — | 124 | — | 33 | 66 | |||
| Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne | — | 24 | 122 | — | — | DNF | 92 | |||
| Brugge–De Panne | 3 | — | — | 2 | — | 1 | 1 | |||
| Gent–Wevelgem | — | — | 47 | 38 | 21 | DNF | 4 | |||
| Dwars door Vlaanderen | — | 142 | NH | 57 | 29 | 4 | ||||
| Scheldeprijs | — | 9 | 5 | 1 | 8 | 1 | ||||
| Eschborn–Frankfurt | — | — | NH | 1 | 11 | DNF | ||||
| Hamburg Cyclassics | — | 34 | — | 6 | — | |||||
| Paris–Tours | — | — | — | 12 | DNF | — | ||||
| — | Did not compete |
|---|---|
| DNF | Did not finish |
Honours and awards
- CyclingNews: Best Sprinter in the World: 2021, 2022, 2023[28]
- Most Victories in 1 Season: 18 in 2023[29]
- Flandrien of the Year – Best Professional Cyclist: 2023[30]
References
- ^ Fotheringham, William. "No more 'Jasper disaster': Philipsen is now sprint king in a fast-moving business". The Guardian. Retrieved 24 August 2023.
- ^ a b "Jasper Philipsen | WorldTour Team | Alpecin-Deceuninck Cycling Team 2022". Alpecin–Deceuninck. Retrieved 8 July 2023.
- ^ "UCI approves Axeon Pro Continental status". Cyclingnews.com. Immediate Media Company. 4 December 2017. Retrieved 24 January 2018.
The team has announced eight riders so far for the 2018 roster, including João Almeida from Portugal, William Barta from the US, U23 time trial world champion Mikkel Bjerg from Denmark, Cole Davis from the US, Zeke Mostov from the US, Jasper Philipsen from Belgium, Thomas Revard from the US and Maikel Zijlaard from the Netherlands.
- ^ "UAE Team Emirates". Cyclingnews.com. Immediate Media Company. Archived from the original on 6 January 2019. Retrieved 6 January 2019.
- ^ "UAE Team Emirates complete 2020 roster with re-signing of former world champion Rui Costa". Cyclingnews.com. Future plc. 8 October 2019. Retrieved 3 January 2020.
- ^ "Alpecin-Fenix". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 3 January 2021. Retrieved 3 January 2021.
- ^ Fletcher, Patrick (9 September 2020). "Jasper Philipsen signs for Alpecin-Fenix". Cyclingnews.com. Future plc. Retrieved 9 September 2020.
- ^ "Junior Jasper Philipsen wil zich meten met internationale top". De Morgen (in Dutch). 22 September 2015.
- ^ "Oververhitte Jasper Philipsen afgevoerd na tijdrit: "Heb mezelf opgeblazen"". Sporza (in Dutch). 11 October 2016. Retrieved 6 January 2023.
- ^ "Jasper Philipsen wint tweede rit in Triptyque des Monts et Châteaux (foto's)". cyclingsite.be (in Dutch). 2 April 2017.
- ^ "Jasper Philipsen wint Parijs-Tours bij beloften". Het Nieuwsblad (in Dutch). 8 October 2017.
- ^ "Le Triptyque des Monts et Châteaux - Jasper Philipsen pakt opnieuw de bloemen". metrotime.be (in Dutch). 1 April 2018.
- ^ "Raak voor Jasper Philipsen in de Baby Giro: Belg sprint naar de zege in derde etappe". Het Nieuwsblad (in Dutch). 10 June 2018.
- ^ "2019: 106th Tour de France: Start List". ProCyclingStats. Retrieved 1 July 2019.
- ^ "75th La Vuelta ciclista a España: Startlist". ProCyclingStats. Retrieved 19 October 2020.
- ^ "Philipsen Wins Another Vuelta Stage, Elissonde Grabs Lead". The Seattle Times. 18 August 2021.
- ^ "jasper-philipsen-abandons-vuelta-a-espana-due-to-illness/". Cycling News. 24 August 2021.
- ^ Reports, Newswire (17 July 2022). "Tour de France: Belgium's Jasper Philipsen wins stage 15, Vingegaard retains lead despite crash". France 24. Retrieved 20 July 2022.
- ^ Farrand, Stephen (22 March 2023). "Classic Brugge-De Panne: Jasper Philipsen prevails on day of rain and misery". CyclingNews. Retrieved 22 March 2023.
- ^ Ostanek, Daniel; Fletcher, Patrick (9 April 2023). "Paris-Roubaix: Mathieu Van der Poel conquers the greatest cobbled Classic". CyclingNews. Retrieved 9 April 2023.
- ^ "Tour de France: Jasper Philipsen denies Mark Cavendish outright stage wins record". BBC. 7 July 2023.
- ^ "Jasper Philipsen". indeleiderstrui.nl (in Dutch). 8 October 2022.
- ^ "Vive le Vélo - Eddy Planckaert, Tom Dumoulin en Britt Lambrecht". VRT (in Dutch). 11 July 2023.
- ^ "Tour de France: Dominant Jasper Philipsen shows he's the sprinter to beat". irishexaminer.com. 5 July 2023.
- ^ "Who is the world's fastest? Ranking the top male sprinters of 2022". cyclingnews.com. 18 November 2022.
- ^ "Rider specialties»Sprinters". procyclingstats.com. 8 July 2023.
- ^ "Jasper 'disaster' Philipsen rebuts Netflix nickname with controversial stage three win at Tour de France". Independent.co.uk. 4 July 2023.
- ^ "Who is the world's fastest? Ranking the top male sprinters of 2022". cyclingnews.com. 18 November 2022.
- ^ "Jasper Philipsen becomes 'king of the victories' with 18th win in 2023". cyclingnews.com. 11 October 2023.
- ^ "Jasper Philipsen en Lotte Kopecky verkozen tot Flandriens van het Jaar, Van der Poel is internationale laureaat". Sporza (in Dutch). 7 November 2023.
External links
- Jasper Philipsen at UCI
- Jasper Philipsen at Cycling Archives
- Jasper Philipsen at ProCyclingStats
- Jasper Philipsen at Cycling Quotient
- Jasper Philipsen at Team Belgium (in Dutch)
