Gijs van Hoecke


Country
Birth date
Age
12/11/1991 - Gent (BEL) 
21
Height
Weight
Gender
186 cm / 6'1" 
75 kg / 165 lbs 
M
Sport
van HOECKE Gijs

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World Championships

Year Venue Omnium Team Pursuit Madison
2011/2012 Melbourne, VIC, AUS 9 6 1
2010/2011 Apeldoorn, NED 3 8

European Championships

Year Venue Omnium Team Pursuit
2011/2012 Apeldoorn, NED 7
2010/2011 Pruszkow, POL 8

World Cup Overview 2008 - 2012

Year Venue Scratch
2011/2012 Astana, KAZ 1
2010/2011 Cali, COL 2

World Cup (Ranking)

Year Scratch
2011/2012 2
2010/2011 2

World Championships (Junior)

Year Venue Madison
2009/2010 Moscow, RUS 2

Education

KASK, Ghent, BEL

Language(s) spoken

Dutch

Club name

Topsport Vlaanderen - Mercator, Belgium

Coach

Erwin Borgonjon (topsport-vlaanderen.be, 10 Feb 2012)

Additional information

Start of sporting career
He started racing at age 13. (topsport-vlaanderen.be, 10 Feb 2012)

Reason for taking up this sport
The football team he played for at the time kept losing so he looked for an individual sport. (topsport-vlaanderen.be, 10 Feb 2012)

Hero
Belgian cyclist Ingmar De Poortere. (Facebook, 10 Feb 2012)

Awards
He suffered a bruised and cracked hip after crashing at the 2011 European Championships in Apeldoorn. (topsport-vlaanderen.be, 10 Feb 2012)

He crashed on the first day of the omnium at the 2011 World Championships in Apeldoorn. The crash left him with a black eye, grazes to his face and legs and a slight calf strain but he competed in the rest of the events and finished third overall. (topsport-vlaanderen.be, 10 Feb 2012)

General
TURNING PRO
He turned professional in 2012. (topsport-vlaanderen.be, 10 Feb 2012)


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