The Purmerend powerhouse spent six seasons in EF's pink before coming home to the Dutch squad in 2024. His crowning moment was a WorldTour breakaway win at the 2021 Tour de Pologne, but his day job is pure horsepower: chasing down moves and driving Picnic PostNL's sprint train through the chaos of a Tour finale.
Palmarès
- Tour de Pologne stage winner, from the breakaway (2021)
- Midden-Brabant Poort Omloop winner (2018)
- Six seasons with EF Education First (2018–2023) before joining the team in 2024
Cut-out factHis only WorldTour victory came from an all-day breakaway at the 2021 Tour de Pologne, where the big engine that usually closes breakaways down held one clear all the way to the line.
The squad
Riding the 2026 Tour with Warren Barguil, Frits Biesterbos, Pavel Bittner, John Degenkolb, Robbe Dhondt, Niklas Märkl, Frank van den Broek — see the full Picnic PostNL team page.
Portrait: AI paper-collage render (gpt-image-2) after a reference photograph — source: Wikimedia Commons, author: Jérémy-Günther-Heinz Jähnick, license: CC BY-SA 3.0.
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