Belgium's brightest young climber announced himself in 2024 by ambushing the UAE Tour on Jebel Hafeet and adding the Tour of Guangxi for good measure. His 2026 Giro ended in a stage-11 crash and a broken finger, so he comes to Barcelona healed but freed of GC pressure — a pure mountain-stage hunter for the high Pyrenees and Alps.
Palmarès
- UAE Tour overall + Jebel Hafeet stage (2024)
- Tour of Guangxi overall (2024)
- Alpes Isère Tour overall (2023)
- 3rd Clásica de San Sebastián (2024)
- Belgian U23 time trial champion (2021)
Cut-out factHe won the 2024 UAE Tour by just two seconds after a 22-second stage-winning attack on the final climb — and he turns 25 on 17 July, right in the middle of this Tour.
The squad
Riding the 2026 Tour with Arnaud De Lie, Huub Artz, Jenno Berckmoes, Lars Craps, Liam Slock, Baptiste Veistroffer, Georg Zimmermann — see the full Lotto-Intermarché team page.
Portrait: AI paper-collage render (gpt-image-2) after a reference photograph — source: Wikimedia Commons, author: Robin Krahl, license: CC BY-SA 4.0.
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