Twan Castelijns (born 23 January 1989 in Hapert, North Brabant, Netherlands) is a Dutch former cyclist, who rode professionally between 2014 and 2017 for the Koga Cycling Team, Baby-Dump Cyclingteam and LottoNL–Jumbo squads.[1] During his career, he contested two Grand Tours; the 2016 Giro d'Italia,[2] and the 2017 Giro d'Italia.
Personal information | |
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Full name | Twan Castelijns |
Born | Hapert, North Brabant, Netherlands | 23 January 1989
Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) |
Weight | 70 kg (154 lb) |
Team information | |
Current team | Retired |
Discipline | Road |
Role | Rider |
Amateur teams | |
2011 | TWC Snelle Het Wiel |
2012–2013 | Baby-Dump–Lemmerns–Wilvo |
2015 | LottoNL–Jumbo (stagiaire) |
Professional teams | |
2014 | Koga Cycling Team |
2015 | Baby-Dump Cyclingteam |
2016–2017 | LottoNL–Jumbo |
Major results
edit- 2014
- 10th Grote Prijs Stad Zottegem
- 2015
- 3rd Arno Wallaard Memorial
- 5th Ster van Zwolle
- 6th Zuid Oost Drenthe Classic I
- 2017
- 2nd Ronde van Drenthe
- 6th Rund um Köln
- 7th Omloop Mandel-Leie-Schelde
- 8th Omloop Eurometropool
- 9th Dwars door West-Vlaanderen
Grand Tour general classification results timeline
editGrand Tour | 2016 | 2017 |
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Giro d'Italia | 114 | 130 |
Tour de France | — | — |
Vuelta a España | — | — |
— | Did not compete |
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DNF | Did not finish |
References
edit- ^ "Un omaggio a chi dice addio" [A tribute to those who say goodbye]. Cicloweb.it (in Italian). Cicloweb. 19 December 2017. Retrieved 4 January 2018.
Costretto a smettere nonostante buoni risultati il ventottenne Twan Castelijns a cui nessuno, a cominciare dal suo Team LottoNL-Jumbo, ha voluto dare fiducia. [Forced to stop in spite of good results, the twenty-eight year old Twan Castelijns that no one, beginning with his LottoNL-Jumbo team, wanted to give confidence to.]
- ^ "99th Giro d'Italia Startlist". Pro Cycling Stats. Retrieved 6 May 2016.
External links
editWikimedia Commons has media related to Twan Castelijns.
- Twan Castelijns at ProCyclingStats