Bob Jungels (born 22 September 1992) is a Luxembourgish road bicycle racer, who rides for UCI WorldTeam Red Bull–Bora–Hansgrohe.[4]
Career
editBorn in Rollingen, Mersch, Luxembourg, Jungels competed in the Tour de France for the first time in 2015,[5] as part of the UCI World Tour team Trek Factory Racing, finishing 27th overall and 5th in the young rider classification.
Etixx–Quick-Step (2016–20)
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Jungels signed for Etixx–Quick-Step for the 2016 and 2017 seasons.[6] He was named in the start list for the 2016 Giro d'Italia where he finished sixth overall and won the young rider classification.[7]
In 2017 he confirmed his ambitions in the general classification by finishing 8th in the Giro d'Italia. He also defended the young rider classification from the previous edition. Only Vladimir Poulnikov and Pavel Tonkov won the classification in consecutive years before him. In the process he was able to take stage 15 and became the first rider from Luxembourg, since Charly Gaul 56 years earlier, to win at the Giro d'Italia.[8]
In 2018, Jungels won Liège–Bastogne–Liège after a solo attack on the Côte de la Roche-aux-Faucons.
AG2R Citroën Team (2021–22)
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In August 2020, Jungels signed a two-year contract with the AG2R Citroën Team from the 2021 season.[9]
His first season with the French squad was hampered first by a back injury[10] and then a head injury suffered in a crash in the Amstel Gold Race.[11] Then in June 2021 the team announced that he would miss the Tour de France and the COVID-19 pandemic-delayed 2020 Summer Olympics for surgery for iliac artery endofibrosis.[12] He returned to competition after a 93-day absence at the Tour de Luxembourg in September.[13]
Jungels regained his title at the Luxembourgish National Time Trial Championships in 2022, finishing around half a minute faster than any other competitor over the 13.6-kilometre (8.5-mile) course in Nospelt.[14] Following this success, Jungels' next race was the Tour de France – prior to the race, he tested positive for COVID-19 on the two days prior to the opening individual time trial stage, but was allowed to compete by both the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) and race organisers Amaury Sport Organisation (ASO).[15] After finishing in the top-ten placings in the sprint finish on stage eight,[16] Jungels got into the breakaway on the following stage. On the day's third categorised climb, the Col de la Croix, Jungels attacked the breakaway group with 3 kilometres (1.9 miles) left to climb.[17] Jungels eventually soloed to victory as the race returned to France, finishing 22 seconds clear of Jonathan Castroviejo in Châtel,[18] to become the first cyclist from Luxembourg to win a stage since Andy Schleck in 2011.[19] He ultimately finished the race in 12th place overall.[20]
Bora–Hansgrohe
editIn August 2022, it was announced that Jungels was to join Bora–Hansgrohe for the 2023 season, on an initial two-year contract with an option for a further year.[21]
Career achievements
editMajor results
editSource:[22]
Cyclo-cross
edit- 2008–2009
- 1st
National Junior Championships - 1st Junior Leudelange
- 1st Junior Niederanven
- 2009–2010
- 1st National Junior Championships
Road
edit- 2009
- National Junior Championships
- 1st Road race
- 1st Time trial
- 1st
- 2nd
Time trial, UEC European Junior Championships - 2nd Overall Grand Prix Rüebliland
- 4th Overall Tour de Lorraine
- 1st Stage 4 (ITT)
- 5th Overall 3-Etappen-Rundfahrt
- 1st Stage 1 (ITT)
- 2010
- 1st
Time trial, UCI World Junior Championships - National Junior Championships
- 1st Road race
- 1st Time trial
- 1st
- 1st
Overall Grand Prix Rüebliland
- 1st
Mountains classification - 1st
Points classification
- 1st
- 1st Overall Vuelta al Besaya
- 1st Points classification
- 1st Stages 1 & 4
- 1st
- 1st Overall Keizer der Juniores Koksijde
- 1st Stages 1 & 2a (ITT)
- 1st Overall 3-Etappen-Rundfahrt
- 1st Stage 1 (ITT)
- 1st Mountains classification, GP Général Patton
- 2nd Overall Trofeo Karlsberg
- 3rd Overall Niedersachsen Rundfahrt Juniors
- 2011
- Games of the Small States of Europe
- 1st
Road race - 1st Time trial
- 1st
- National Under-23 Championships
- 1st Road race
- 1st Time trial
- 1st
- UEC European Under-23 Championships
- 2nd Time trial
- 10th Road race
- 2nd
- 3rd Overall Flèche du Sud
- 1st
Young rider classification
- 1st
- 2012 (1 pro win)
- 1st Time trial, National Under-23 Championships
- 1st Overall Flèche du Sud
- 1st Young rider classification
- 1st Stage 4 (ITT)
- 1st
- 1st Overall Le Triptyque des Monts et Châteaux
- 1st Points classification
- 1st
- 1st Paris–Roubaix Espoirs
- 1st Stage 4 Giro della Valle d'Aosta
- 2nd Time trial, UEC European Under-23 Championships
- 2nd Overall Giro della Regione Friuli Venezia Giulia
- 1st Young rider classification
- 1st
- 2nd La Côte Picarde
- 7th Chrono Champenois
- 8th Overall Toscana-Terra di Ciclismo
- 9th Overall Tour de Luxembourg
- 2013 (4)
- National Championships
- 1st Road race
- 1st Time trial
- 1st
- 1st Gran Premio Nobili Rubinetterie
- 5th Overall Tour de Luxembourg
- 1st Stage 4
- 2014
- 2nd Time trial, National Championships
- 9th Overall Critérium International
Combativity award Stage 17 Vuelta a España- 2015 (4)
- National Championships
- 1st Road race
- 1st Time trial
- 1st
- 1st
Overall Étoile de Bessèges
- 1st Stage 5 (ITT)
- 6th Overall Tour de Suisse
- 10th Overall Vuelta a Andalucía
- 2016 (3)
- UCI World Championships
- 1st
Team time trial - 10th Time trial
- 1st
- National Championships
- 1st Road race
- 1st Time trial
- 1st
- 1st Stage 1 Tour of Oman
- 3rd Overall Tirreno–Adriatico
- 1st Young rider classification
- 1st
- 6th Overall Giro d'Italia
- 1st Young rider classification
- Held
after Stages 10–12
- 1st
- 10th Overall Eneco Tour
- 2017 (2)
- National Championships
- 1st Road race
- 2nd Time trial
- 1st
- 1st Young rider classification, Tirreno–Adriatico
- 8th Overall Giro d'Italia
- 1st Young rider classification
- 1st Stage 15
- Held after Stages 4–8
- 1st
- 8th Overall Tour de Romandie
- 2018 (4)
- 1st Team time trial, UCI World Championships
- National Championships
- 1st Road race
- 1st Time trial
- 1st
- 1st Liège–Bastogne–Liège
- 1st Prologue Okolo Slovenska
- 3rd La Drôme Classic
- 5th Overall Volta ao Algarve
- 5th Overall Tour of Britain
- 7th Vuelta a Murcia
- 2019 (4)
- National Championships
- 1st Road race
- 1st Time trial
- 1st
- 1st Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne
- 1st Stage 4 Tour Colombia
- 3rd Dwars door Vlaanderen
- 5th E3 Binckbank Classic
- 8th Overall Paris–Nice
- 2020 (1)
- National Championships
- 1st Time trial
- 2nd Road race
- 1st
- 2022 (2)
- 1st Time trial, National Championships
- 1st Stage 9 Tour de France
- 6th Overall Tour de Suisse
General classification results timeline
edit| Grand Tour general classification results | |||||||||||
| Grand Tour | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Giro d'Italia
|
— | — | 6 | 8 | — | 33 | — | — | — | 39 | — |
| Tour de France
|
— | 27 | — | — | 11 | — | 43 | — | 12 | 26 | 37 |
 Vuelta a España
|
DNF | — | — | 42 | — | — | — | — | 51 | — | — |
| Major stage race general classification results | |||||||||||
| Race | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
| Paris–Nice
|
18 | 23 | — | — | — | 8 | 15 | 27 | — | 19 | 34 |
 Tirreno–Adriatico
|
— | — | 3 | 14 | 18 | — | — | — | 23 | — | — |
 Volta a Catalunya
|
— | — | — | — | 24 | — | NH | 59 | — | — | — |
| Tour of the Basque Country
|
57 | 31 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 91 | |
| Tour de Romandie
|
— | — | DNF | 8 | — | — | — | 61 | 42 | — | |
 Critérium du Dauphiné
|
86 | — | — | — | 25 | — | 42 | — | — | — | 40 |
| Tour de Suisse
|
— | 6 | — | — | — | — | NH | 19 | 6 | — | — |
Classics results timeline
edit| Monument | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Milan–San Remo | — | 87 | — | — | — | — | — | 73 | — | 52 | — | — |
| Tour of Flanders | — | — | — | — | — | — | 16 | — | — | 56 | — | — |
| Paris–Roubaix | 84 | — | — | — | — | — | — | NH | — | — | — | — |
| Liège–Bastogne–Liège | — | 62 | 82 | — | — | 1 | — | 94 | — | 58 | — | 45 |
| Giro di Lombardia | — | — | — | — | DNF | DNF | 52 | — | — | — | 67 | |
| Classic | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
| Omloop Het Nieuwsblad | — | — | — | — | — | — | 16 | 32 | — | — | — | 126 |
| Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne | NH | — | — | — | — | — | 1 | 55 | — | — | — | 98 |
| Strade Bianche | — | — | — | 17 | DNF | — | — | DNF | — | — | — | — |
| E3 Harelbeke | — | — | — | — | — | — | 5 | NH | — | 65 | — | — |
| Dwars door Vlaanderen | DNF | — | — | — | — | — | 3 | — | 70 | — | — | |
| Amstel Gold Race | — | 38 | 23 | 43 | 39 | 33 | — | DNF | — | — | 33 | |
| La Flèche Wallonne | — | 143 | DNF | 66 | 39 | 41 | — | 70 | — | 78 | — | DNF |
| Clásica de San Sebastián | 16 | — | 80 | 84 | — | 52 | — | NH | — | — | DNF |
| — | Did not compete |
|---|---|
| DNF | Did not finish |
| IP | In progress |
| NH | Not held |
Honours and awards
editIn 2010, Jungels was the winner of the Prix du Jeune Espoir Luxembourgeois.[23] In 2018, Jungels was the men's winner at the Luxembourgish Sportspeople of the Year awards.[24]
References
edit- ^ "RadioShack-Leopard (RLT) – LUX". UCI World Tour. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 6 January 2014. Retrieved 10 January 2013.
- ^ Ryan, Barry (31 December 2019). "2020 Team Preview: Deceuninck-QuickStep". Cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 2 January 2020.
- ^ "AG2R Citroën Team". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 1 January 2021. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
- ^ "Bora–Hansgrohe". UCI. Retrieved 6 January 2023.
- ^ "2015 Tour de France start list". Velo News. Retrieved 2 July 2015.
- ^ September 2015, Cycling News 03. "Jungels signs with Etixx-Quickstep". cyclingnews.com.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ "99th Giro d'Italia Startlist". Pro Cycling Stats. Retrieved 6 May 2016.
- ^ "Gaviria and Jungels headline Quick-Step Floors' Giro d'Italia success". Cyclingnews. Retrieved 29 May 2017.
- ^ "Bob Jungels joins on a two year contract". AG2R La Mondiale. EUSRL France Cyclisme. 18 August 2020. Retrieved 18 August 2020.
- ^ "Jungels reveals back injury has hindered start of season". Cyclingnews. Future plc. Retrieved 27 September 2021.
- ^ "Jungels out of Ardennes Classics with head injury". Cycling News. Retrieved 27 September 2021.
- ^ Long, Jonny. "Bob Jungels will miss Tour de France to undergo surgery, 'relieved' to have found problem affecting performance". Cycling Weekly. Future plc. Retrieved 27 September 2021.
- ^ "Bob Jungels returns to competition at the Skoda – Tour de Luxembourg". AG2R Citroën Team. Retrieved 27 September 2021.
- ^ Gillen, Pascal (25 June 2022). "Zurück in Rot-Weiß-Blau: Bob Jungels gewinnt das Zeitfahren der Landesmeisterschaft" [Back in red, white and blue: Bob Jungels wins the national championship time trial]. Tageblatt (in German). Editpress. Retrieved 25 June 2022.
- ^ Fletcher, Patrick (2 July 2022). "How Bob Jungels started the Tour de France while positive for COVID-19". Cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 19 September 2022.
- ^ "Bob Jungels takes 9th in stage 8 of the Tour de France". AG2R Citroën Team. EUSRL France Cyclisme. 9 July 2022. Retrieved 19 September 2022.
- ^ "Bob Jungels' long walk to freedom". Tour de France. Amaury Sport Organisation. 10 July 2022. Retrieved 19 September 2022.
- ^ Stuart, Peter; Farrand, Stephen (10 July 2022). "Jungels solos to stage 9 Alpine victory in 2022 Tour de France". Cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 19 September 2022.
- ^ Christian, Nick (10 July 2022). "TOUR DE FRANCE 2022 - BOB JUNGELS LANDS SPECIAL STAGE 9 WIN AFTER 63KM SOLO BREAK, TADEJ POGACAR KEEPS YELLOW". Eurosport. Warner Bros. Discovery. Retrieved 19 September 2022.
- ^ Fletcher, Patrick (9 August 2022). "Bob Jungels signs for Bora-Hansgrohe". Cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 19 September 2022.
- ^ Benson, Daniel (10 August 2022). "Transfer analysis: Bob Jungels and a move to Bora-Hansgrohe that just makes sense". VeloNews. Outside Media. Retrieved 19 September 2022.
- ^ "Bob Jungels". FirstCycling.com. FirstCycling AS. Retrieved 19 September 2022.
- ^ [1] Archived 13 December 2010 at the Wayback Machine (in French)
- ^ "Christine Majerus, Bob Jungels, and F91 Dudelange take home awards". RTL Group. CLT-UFA S.A. Division RTL NewMedia Luxembourg. 7 December 2018. Retrieved 20 December 2020.
External links
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- Bob Jungels at UCI
- Bob Jungels at Cycling Archives (archive)
- Bob Jungels at ProCyclingStats
- Bob Jungels at CQ Ranking
- Bob Jungels at CycleBase
