Jelle Wallays

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Jelle Wallays
File:Chaudfontaine - Grand Prix de Wallonie, 17 septembre 2014, départ (B11).JPG
Wallays in 2014
Personal information
Full name Jelle Wallays
Born (1989-05-11) 11 May 1989 (age 35)
Belgium
Team information
Current team Lotto–Soudal
Discipline Road
Role Rider
Rider type Classics specialist
Amateur team(s)
2008–2010 Beveren 2000[1]
2010 Topsport Vlaanderen–Mercator (stagiaire)
Professional team(s)
2011–2015 Topsport Vlaanderen–Baloise
2016– Lotto–Soudal
Major wins
One-Day Races and Classics
Paris–Tours (2014)
Dwars door Vlaanderen (2015)
Infobox last updated on
12 October 2014

Jelle Wallays (born 11 May 1989) is a Belgian road cyclist, currently riding for UCI Professional Continental team Topsport Vlaanderen–Baloise.[2]

Career

Jelle Wallays is the brother and nephew of racing cyclists Jens Wallays and Luc Wallays.[3] He was coached by his uncle in his early racing career and competed in his first race at the age of 14. The start of his first year as a professional in 2011 was marred by a knee injury, however a few weeks after returning to competition he took the best result of his season at the Belgian National Road Race Championships, where he finished third behind Philippe Gilbert and Gianni Meersman.[1]

A winner of the under-23 Paris Tours in 2010, Wallays won the 2014 Paris Tours having been in a breakaway that went in the opening kilometres of the 237.5-kilometre race, making him the only rider to win the under-23 and elite men's editions of Paris-Tours.[4]

In 2015, he won the Dwars door Vlaanderen by attacking a group of three other riders a kilometer away from the finish line.[5]

Wallays joined Lotto–Soudal for the 2016 season, with a focus on working as part of the team's sprint train.[1]

Achievements

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References

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External links

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