Wikipedia / Steven de Jongh
Wikipedia / Steven de Jongh
Steven de Jongh (born 25 November 1973) is a Dutch former road bicycle racer.
Biography
de Jongh made his professional debut in 1995 at TVM team where he stayed until 1999. From 2000 to 2005 he was part of , while he made the move to in 2006. De Jongh retired as a rider after the 2009 season.
He was a Directeur sportif at Team Sky for three years, leaving in October 2012 after admitting he had taken illegal substances earlier in his career. In January 2013 he joined Team Saxo-Tinkoff as a sports director. After the Tinkoff team announced their disbanding at the conclusion of the 2016 season, in September 2016 confirmed that de Jongh would join them from 2017, along with Tinkoff riders Alberto Contador and Jesús Hernández.
On October 15, 2018, de Jongh was reported missing by his wife after he did not return from a training ride near his home in Girona, Spain. After she posted to Twitter to request help finding him, others noticed that his cycling computer had automatically uploaded his route to the social networking site Strava. Search efforts were then focused on the area near the end of the route, and de Jongh was found lying unconscious in a ravine near the road. He suffered a severe concussion but was not otherwise harmed. De Jongh later said that he had no memory of the crash and the cause was unknown.
Major results
1992
1994
1st Dokkum Woudenomloop
1st Stage 11 Commonwealth Bank Classic
1st Stage 2 Tour du Poitou-Charentes
1st Stage 6 Olympia's Tour
1st Stage 1 OZ Wielerweekend
3rd Ster van Zwolle
1995
1st Road race, National Under-23 Road Championships
1st Stage 1 Tour de Pologne
1st Stages 1, 9 & 10 Tour of Austria
2nd Ster van Zwolle
1996
4th HEW Cyclassics
9th Overall Étoile de Bessèges
1997
1st Stage 3 Vuelta a Burgos
1st Stage 2 Tour de l'Avenir
1st Stage 3 Boland Bank Tour
4th Overall Tour of Sweden
1998
1st Overall Tour of Sweden
1st Stage 2
1st Stage 4 Étoile de Bessèges
1999
1st Stage 7 Tirreno–Adriatico
1st Stage 4 Vuelta a Castilla y León
1st Stage 2 Giro della Provincia di Lucca
3rd Overall Guldensporentweedaagse
7th Delta Profronde
2000
1st Schaal Sels
2001
3rd Overall Guldensporentweedaagse
2002
1st Schaal Sels
1st Stages 1b & 2 Tour of Sweden
1st Stage 2 Ronde van Nederland
3rd Nokere-Koerse
4th Road race, National Road Championships
2003
1st Schaal Sels
1st Stage 3a Three Days of De Panne
8th GP Rudy Dhaenens
2004
2nd Overall Circuit Franco-Belge
2005
1st Nokere Koerse
2nd Road race, National Road Championships
2nd Tour de Rijke
3rd Omloop Het Volk
3rd Trofeo Manacor
4th GP Stad Zottegem
10th Overall Ster Elektrotoer
2006
2nd Scheldeprijs
3rd Paris–Brussels
6th Overall Three Days of De Panne
1st Stage 3
7th Overall Tour of Qatar
8th Tour de Rijke
9th Overall Tour of Belgium
2007
1st GP Briek Schotte
3rd Overall Tour of Qatar
1st Stage 1
4th Paris–Tours
5th GP Ouest–France
5th Paris–Brussels
9th Tour de Rijke
10th Omloop Het Volk
2008
1st Tour de Rijke
2nd Overall Tour of Qatar
1st Stage 1 (TTT)
3rd Road race, National Road Championships
2009
5th Overall Circuit Franco-Belge
9th Tour de Rijke
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