Johan Jacobs
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| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1 March 1997 Zürich, Switzerland |
| Height | 1.92 m (6 ft 4 in) |
| Weight | 72 kg (159 lb) |
| Team information | |
| Current team | Movistar Team |
| Disciplines | Road Cyclo-cross |
| Role | Rider |
| Amateur teams | |
| 2015 | Lares–Doltcini |
| 2017 | Balen BC |
| 2019 | Lotto–Soudal U23 |
| Professional teams | |
| 2016 | Marlux–Napoleon Games |
| 2018 | Pauwels Sauzen–Vastgoedservice |
| 2020– | Movistar Team[1] |
Johan Jacobs (born 1 March 1997) is a Swiss road and cyclo-cross cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Movistar Team.[2] He competed in the men's under-23 event at the 2016 UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships.[3]
Career
[edit]Jacobs early career started in cyclo-cross, winning multiple national titles and world cup races.[4] In 2015 Jacobs won the eighth race in the Superprestige at Middelkerke series. This stopped Eli Iserbyt from winning every race in the series.[5] At the Junior Koppenbergcross Jacobs attacked from the start and held off everyone for the entire race forcing Iserbyt and Thijs Wolsink to work together.[6]
Jacobs elected not to ride cyclo-cross race in his final year as an Under-23 instead wanting to focus on road cycling, this put him into the spotlight for a contract with Lotto–Soudal U23.[7] He was the only rider able to follow the winning move by Tom Pidcock in the Paris–Roubaix Espoirs which earned him a second place.[4] These efforts caught the eye of Movistar Team's manager Eusebio Unzué and led to getting a two-year contract with the UCI WorldTour team in 2020.[4]
While riding the 2021 Vuelta a España Jacobs crashed during stage 9. He went through a guardrail resulting in a broken shoulder, rib and a collapsed lung.[8] He did not race again in the 2021 season.
Movistar Team extended Jacobs contract by one year till the end of 2024.[9] Jacobs elected to not race cyclo-cross over the 2023 winter so that he would have more time to prepare for the 2024 road season.[10][11]
Major results
[edit]Cyclo-cross
[edit]- 2013–2014
- 1st
National Junior Championships - 2nd Overall Junior Superprestige
- 1st Middelkerke
- 2nd Hoogstraten
- 2014–2015
- 1st National Junior Championships
- Junior BPost Bank Trophy
- 1st Koppenbergcross
- 1st GP Sven Nys
- 1st Krawatencross
- 2nd Overall UCI Junior World Cup
- 1st Namur
- 3rd Valkenburg
- 2nd Overall Junior Superprestige
- 1st Middelkerke
- 2nd Zonhoven
- 2nd Ruddervoorde
- 2nd Hoogstraten
- 3rd Gieten
- 3rd Diegem
- 3rd
UEC European Junior Championships - 2015–2016
- 3rd National Under-23 Championships
- 2016–2017
- 1st National Under-23 Championships
- 2017–2018
- 2nd National Under-23 Championships
- National Trophy Series
- 3rd Ipswich
Road
[edit]- 2019
- 1st Stage 2 (TTT) Tour de l'Avenir
- 2nd Paris–Roubaix Espoirs
- 7th Ronde van Vlaanderen Beloften
- 8th Sundvolden GP
- 2020
- 4th Road race, National Championships
- 2021
- 3rd Road race, National Championships
Grand Tour general classification results timeline
[edit]| Grand Tour | 2021 |
|---|---|
 Giro d'Italia
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— |
 Tour de France
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— |
 Vuelta a España
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DNF |
| — | Did not compete |
|---|---|
| DNF | Did not finish |
References
[edit]- ^ "Movistar Team ready to open new era in 2020". Movistar Team. Abarca Sports SL. 19 December 2019. Retrieved 2 January 2020.
- ^ "Movistar Team". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 1 January 2021. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
- ^ "2016 Cyclo-croos World Championships: Entries list men's under-23" (PDF). wk2016.be. Retrieved 1 February 2016.[permanent dead link]
- ^ a b c "Johan Jacobs: Swiss power for the Movistar Team | Movistar Team". Movistar Team. 16 August 2019. Retrieved 27 January 2024.
- ^ Reimann, Andrew (14 February 2015). "Jacobs Dashes Iserbyt's Perfect 2014-15 Superprestige Series with a Win at Middelkerke: Race Report and Full Results". Cyclocross Magazine - Cyclocross and Gravel News, Races, Bikes, Media. Retrieved 27 January 2024.
- ^ Reimann, Andrew (7 February 2015). "Sweeck and Jacobs Take U23, Junior Wins in BPost Bank at Krawatencross - Updated: Full Results". Cyclocross Magazine - Cyclocross and Gravel News, Races, Bikes, Media. Retrieved 27 January 2024.
- ^ "Get to know Johan Jacobs". U23 Cycling Zone. 13 May 2019. Retrieved 27 January 2024.
- ^ "VN news ticker: UAE-Team Emirates retains Fernando Gaviria, others; Joss Lowden signs for Uno-X". Velo. 23 August 2021. Retrieved 27 January 2024.
- ^ Moultrie, James (10 October 2023). "Movistar unveil 12 contract extensions in single announcement". cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 27 January 2024.
- ^ Hamilton, Alastair (14 December 2023). "EUROTRASH Thursday: The Uijtdebroeks Fiasco and All the Latest News!". PezCycling News. Retrieved 27 January 2024.
- ^ "Johan Jacobs will skip cyclocross races this year to be fully prepare for early start to the new season: "There would be little time to do any racing anways"". CyclingUpToDate.com. 13 December 2023. Retrieved 27 January 2024.
- ^ "Johan Jacobs". FirstCycling.com. Retrieved 27 January 2024.
- ^ "Johan Jacobs". www.procyclingstats.com. Retrieved 27 January 2024.
- ^ "Johan Jacobs". cyclingarchives.com. Retrieved 1 February 2016.
External links
[edit]- Johan Jacobs at UCI
- Johan Jacobs at Cycling Archives
- Johan Jacobs at ProCyclingStats
- Johan Jacobs at Cycling Quotient
- Johan Jacobs at CycleBase
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