Nick Nuyens

Nick Nuyens (born 5 May 1980) is a Belgian former professional road racing cyclist who last rode for in the UCI World Tour. His biggest wins included the semi-classics Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne, Omloop Het Volk, Paris–Brussels and the classic Tour of Flanders. He was a classics rider. His first wife was the Belgian multiple national champion, Evy Van Damme, with whom he had three children. In 2015 he married Lynn Peeters. He retired in 2015 after failing to secure a new contract.

Career

The year 2011 was a good one for him, since he took the victory on two classics in Flanders. At the end of March, he prevailed in a sprint at the Dwars door Vlaanderen, after desperately trying to steer clear of the group in the last of the race. Geraint Thomas of finished second, while the lead group was a few seconds away. Two weeks later, Nuyens took one of the Monuments of cycling, the Tour of Flanders. After the Muur van Geraardsbergen, one of the big favourites, Fabian Cancellara, was caught by the bunch. Nuyens was part of the chasers that bridged to the leading group in the final kilometers, and a trio of riders were left to battle it out for the finish while another group was very close to them in the final meters. Nuyens got the better of Sylvain Chavanel () and Cancellara in the three-man sprint. Nuyens said of his biggest win of his career: "It was only in the final 50 meters that I started to fully realize what was happening, that I was about to win this beautiful race."

Nuyens left at the end of the 2012 season, and joined on a three-year contract from the 2013 season onwards.

During the 2009 season he used a wood block under his saddle to prevent it from sagging in wet conditions.

Since 2017 Nuyens has been the general manager of the Vérandas Willems–Crelan cycling team, which is a road Pro Continental cycling team and one of the main Belgian cyclo-cross teams.

Career achievements

Major results

2002

1st Road race, National Under-23 Road Championships

1st Ronde Van Vlaanderen Beloften

5th La Côte Picarde

2003

1st Nationale Sluitingsprijs

6th Memorial Rik Van Steenbergen

7th Overall Uniqa Classic

7th Gran Premio Bruno Beghelli

9th Overall Tour de Picardie

2004

1st Overall Ster Elektrotoer

1st Stage 3

1st Paris–Brussels

1st Grand Prix de Wallonie

1st Gran Premio Industria e Commercio di Prato

3rd Overall Tour of Britain

6th Overall Tour de l'Ain

7th Overall Driedaagse van West-Vlaanderen

1st Young rider classification

9th Overall Four Days of Dunkirk

9th Overall Tour de Picardie

2005

1st Overall Tour of Britain

1st Stages 1 & 5

1st Omloop Het Volk

1st Grand Prix de Wallonie

2nd Overall Ster Elektrotoer

2nd Druivenkoers Overijse

5th Road race, National Road Championships

6th Dwars door Vlaanderen

7th Brabantse Pijl

2006

1st Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne

1st Stage 3 Tour de Suisse

2nd Grand Prix de Wallonie

2nd Grand Prix of Aargau Canton

3rd Brabantse Pijl

4th Overall Tour of Britain

4th Vattenfall Cyclassics

4th Tour du Haut Var

7th Memorial Rik Van Steenbergen

2007

1st Overall Étoile de Bessèges

1st Stage 3

1st Stage 1 Eneco Tour

2nd Brabantse Pijl

4th Road race, National Road Championships

4th Omloop Het Volk

7th Tour of Flanders

8th Halle–Ingooigem

2008

2nd Tour of Flanders

2nd Omloop Het Volk

8th Brabantse Pijl

9th Road race, UCI Road World Championships

10th Dwars door Vlaanderen

2009

1st Grand Prix de Wallonie

5th Grote Prijs Jef Scherens

7th E3 Prijs Vlaanderen

8th Amstel Gold Race

8th Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne

2010

1st Stage 5 Tour of Austria

5th Road race, National Road Championships

9th Overall Tour of Belgium

2011

1st Tour of Flanders

1st Dwars door Vlaanderen

3rd Klasika Primavera

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

Classics results timeline

References

External links

Palmares on Cycling Base

Palmares on CQ Ranking

1980 births

Living people

Belgian male cyclists

Sportspeople from Lier, Belgium

People from Nijlen

Tour de Suisse stage winners

Cyclists from Antwerp Province