Victor Campenaerts
Victor Campenaerts (born 28 October 1991) is a Belgian racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI ProTeam . Career He rode at the 2014 UCI Road World Championships. In September 2015 it was announced that he would join the UCI World Tour ranks in 2016 with . He was named in the startlist for the 2016 Vuelta a España and the start list for the 2017 Giro d'Italia. On 16 April 2019, at the Aguascalientes Bicentenary Velodrome in Aguascalientes, Mexico, Campenaerts broke the hour record, riding , surpassing Bradley Wiggins' previous mark set on 7 June 2015 by . In doing so, he became the fourth Belgian cyclist to hold the hour record, after Oscar Van den Eynde (1897–98), Ferdinand Bracke (1967–68) and Eddy Merckx (1972–2000). Campenaerts rejoined , on a 3 year contract, in 2022 after 2 years away at . Riding for the now renamed Lotto–Dstny, Campenaerts rode the 2023 Tour de France. Upon the race's conclusion in Paris, he was selected as the winner of the race's super-combativity award, as the most combative rider overall during the race. Campenaerts made the breakaway 5 times during the race, including on stages 18 and 19, which had both been