Greg Van Avermaet
Memorial Rik Van Steenbergen 2007 Stage win Tour of Belgium 2008 Stage win and Vuelta a España 2008 points classification Paris -Tours 2011
Greg Van Avermaet (born 17 May 1985 in Lokeren ) is a Belgian racing cyclist.
Career
Van Avermaet won the 2005 Hasselt Hasselt spa and a stage of the triptyque des Barrages ( U23 ). In 2006 he came to the Belgian Continental team Bodysol - Win for Life - Jong Vlaanderen. This season he won several small Belgian one-day races and also celebrated his greatest success to date: to win the Belgian U23 Championships in the road race.
As of the 2007 season, Van Avermaet went for the Belgian ProTeam Predictor -Lotto at the start. In the Tour of Qatar, the Belgian won his first international success at the 5th stage. His only previous stage win at one of the three Grand Tours, he was able to record on September 8, 2008, when he won the sprint of a breakaway group for on the 9th stage of the Vuelta a España from Vielha to Sabinanigo. In addition, Van Avermaet also won the points classification in this tour.
In 2011, he joined the Swiss-American BMC Racing Team, scoring as Sprint winner of a breakaway duo at the classic Paris -Tours his biggest success.
Trivia
He is the brother of Glenn D' Hollander, his former teammate at Silence-Lotto.
Team
- 2006 Bodysol - Win for Life - Jong Vlaanderen
- 2007 Predictor -Lotto
- 2008 Silence-Lotto
- 2009 Silence-Lotto
- 2010 Omega Pharma-Lotto
- 2011 BMC
- 2012 BMC
- 2013 BMC
Achievements
- Belgium Belgian champion U23 road race
- A stage in Tour of Qatar
- A stage of the Tour de Wallonie
- Around the Hainleite
- Memorial Rik Van Steenbergen
- Westrozebeke
- A stage in Tour of Belgium
- A stage of the Tour de Wallonie
- A stage and Points Classification Tour de l' Ain
- A stage and point scoring Vuelta a España
- Heistse Pijl
- A stage in Tour of Austria
- A stage and General Classification Tour de Wallonie
- Paris -Tours
- TTT Tour of Qatar
- Two stages and General Classification Tour de Wallonie
- A stage of Tour of Utah