Jurgen Van den Broeck
Van den Broeck at the 2011 Critérium du Dauphiné.
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| Personal information | |
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| Full name | Jurgen Van den Broeck |
| Nickname | VDBke, JVDB, VDB2 |
| Born |
1 February 1983 Herentals, Belgium |
| Height | 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) |
| Weight | 68 kg (150 lb; 10.7 st) |
| Team information | |
| Current team | LottoNL–Jumbo |
| Discipline | Road |
| Role | Rider |
| Rider type | All-Rounder |
| Amateur team(s) | |
| 1999–2003 | – |
| Professional team(s) | |
| 2004–2006 | U.S. Postal Service |
| 2007–2015 | Predictor–Lotto |
| 2016 | Team Katusha |
| 2017– | LottoNL–Jumbo |
| Major wins | |
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Jurgen Van den Broeck (born 1 February 1983) is a Belgian professional road bicycle racer who rides for the UCI WorldTeam LottoNL–Jumbo. He specializes in the time trial, having been Junior World Champion against the clock in 2001. The promise he first displayed in minor stage races like the Tour de Romandie and Eneco Tour was later validated and confirmed by top-10 finishes in all three Grand Tours: the Giro d'Italia, the Tour de France and the Vuelta a España.
Born in Herentals, Van den Broeck won the Junior World Time Trial Championship in 2001 and made his pro debut in 2003 as a stagiaire for the Quick Step-Davitamon-Latexco team.
Rather than remaining in Belgium, however, Van den Broeck signed with the American U.S. Postal Service of Lance Armstrong for his first full season as a professional in 2004. His only result of note that year was 6th-place overall in the Tour of Belgium.
Van den Broeck remained with Johan Bruyneel's team in 2005 when Discovery Channel took over the title sponsorship, and he continued with the Americans in 2006 after Armstrong retired. During that period he finished on the podium in stages of the Deutschland Tour and the Tour of Belgium (where he also won the KOM classification), and he rode to a top-20 finish overall in the Tour de Romandie. In June, however, Van den Broeck announced his intention to return to Belgium when he agreed to a two-year contract with the then-Davitamon squad, which would be re-branded in 2007 as Predictor–Lotto. The following month Van den Broeck scored his first win as a professional, taking the Schriek, Derny in Belgium ahead of Erwin Vervecken and future cyclocross world champion Niels Albert. (Previous winners included Nick Nuyens, Dave Bruylandts, Jo Planckaert and Sven Nys).
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