Gijs Van Hoecke
Gijs Van Hoecke (* 12 November 1991 in Ghent ) is a Belgian racing cyclist.
Gijs Van Hoecke 2007 Belgian Champion in a two - team driving the Juniors, with Moreno De Pauw. In 2008, he took four Belgian junior title and was runner-up in Cape Town Junior World Champion in a two - team driving, with Tosh Van Der Sande. In 2009 he was again Belgian champion in the Junior Omnium, won the Giro della Toscana and was in Moscow Junior Vice World Champion in a two - team driving, together with Jochen Deweer. In 2010 he occupied at the junior European Championships in St. Petersburg in Omnium second place.
In the UCI Track World Championships 2011 in Apeldoorn Van Hoecke won bronze in the Omnium, although he had come to the event excretion driving, a sub-discipline of this multi struggle and had carried clearly visible facial injuries. The following year he won jointly with Kenny De Ketele the world title in a two - team driving.
Achievements - train
- World Cup - Madison ( juniors) with Tosh Van Der Sande
- Belgium Belgian Champion - Omnium (Juniors )
- World Cup - Madison ( juniors) with Jochen Deweer
- European Championship - Omnium ( U23 )
- World Cup - Omnium
- World Cup Astana - Scratch
- World Cup - two - team driving with Kenny De Ketele
- Championship - Team Pursuit ( U23 ) with Joris Cornet, Jasper De Buyst and Moreno De Pauw
- European Championships - Madison ( U23 ) with Jasper De Buyst
- European Championships - Madison with Kenny De Ketele
- Six Days of Amsterdam with Kenny De Ketele
Team
- 2012 Top Sport Vlaanderen- Mercator
- 2013 Top Sport Vlaanderen- Baloise