Dutch road cyclist

In this Dutch name, the surname is van Hummel, not Hummel.

Kenny Robert van Hummel (born 30 September 1982) is a retired road bicycle racer from the Netherlands, who specialised in sprint finishes. He competed professionally between 2006 and 2014, with the Skil–Shimano, Vacansoleil–DCM and Androni Giocattoli–Venezuela teams.

Contents

• 1 Career
• 2 Personal life
• 3 Major results
  • 3.1 Grand Tour general cl*ification results timeline
• 4 References
• 5 External links

Career

Born in Elden, Gelderland, van Hummel started cycling races at the age of seven, and one year later he became a member of cycling club "De Adelaar" in Apeldoorn. He had a successful youth career, and at 1998 joined the Rabobank youth team. He started road races and cyclo-cross races. In 2000, his second year as a junior, he came in fourth in the 2000 UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships for juniors.

In 2004, van Hummel changed teams to Van Hemert-Eurogifts. Van Hummel won a sprint in the ZLM Tour, and became second in the national championships for espoirs. One year later, Van Hummel won the Dutch road race championship for cyclists without professional contract, and won five criteriums.

In 2006, Van Hummel became a professional cyclist for Skil–Shimano. In that year he reached the podium in stages of the Tour of Belgium and the ENECO Tour, and won the Tour of North-Holland, which finished in a sprint.

2009 was a successful year for Van Hummel, especially the month of May. He won five races, the Profronde van Fryslan, Dutch Food Valley Cl*ic, the Tour de Rijke and a stage in the Four Days of Dunkirk, and confirmed that he could win sprints as a professional. He became leader in the 2008–2009 UCI Europe Tour.At the Dutch National Road Race Championships, Van Hummel was competing for the win all day. Koos Moerenhout escaped close to the end, but Van Hummel finished second by winning the sprint.

Van Hummel was selected to join the 2009 Tour de France, after his team Skil–Shimano received a wildcard. Van Hummel was the first one to leave in time trial in the first stage, and finished the time trial in the second-worst time. After the sixth stage, Van Hummel was ranked last in the general cl*ification. In the following mountain stages, Van Hummel could not keep up with the other cyclists, and finished among the last cyclists every day, sometimes riding tens of kilometers on his own, with a large margin to the other cyclists. His difficulties were increased by the fact that his team felt they could not afford to devote a domestique to *ist Van Hummel (as is commonly done for other sprinters such as Mark Cavendish), as they could not afford to run the risk of having both riders disqualified. His daily struggle against the time limit, and his positive at*ude made him a popular cyclist in the Netherlands. In the seventeenth stage, he fell and had to leave the race due to his sustained injuries.

After the mountain stages, the French newspaper L'Équipe named Van Hummel the "worst climber ever" in the Tour de France. The newspaper said that it never happened before that the same cyclist finished last in every mountain stage. What they did not say was that some other riders already left the tour because of the heavy mountain stages.

Van Hummel joined Vacansoleil–DCM for the 2012 season, having signed a two-year deal.

Van Hummel joined Androni Giocattoli–Venezuela for the 2014 season, after his previous team:– Vacansoleil–DCM:– folded at the end of the 2013 season.

Personal life

Van Hummel used to live in Driel, before moving to Elden.

Major results

20002nd Time trial, National Junior Road Championships20019th Paris–Roubaix Espoirs20022nd Ronde van Overijssel20034th ZLM Tour20041st ZLM Tour2nd Road race, National Under-23 Road Championships8th Rund um die Nürnberger Altstadt20053rd Grote Prijs Stad Zottegem4th Noord-Nederland Tour5th Beverbeek Cl*ic7th Omloop van het Houtland9th Overall Olympia's Tour10th Omloop der Kempen10th Rund um die Nürnberger Altstadt20063rd Madison, National Track Championships (with Aart Vierhouten)5th International Grand Prix Doha8th Dutch Food Valley Cl*ic8th Noord-Nederland Tour8th Ronde van Midden-Zeeland9th Kampioenschap van Vlaanderen20071st Ronde van Noord-Holland2nd Grote Prijs Gerrie Knetemann5th Schaal Sels6th Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne20084th Dutch Food Valley Cl*ic10th Paris–Brussels20091st Ronde van Overijssel1st Batavus Pro Race1st Dutch Food Valley Cl*ic1st Tour de Rijke1st Peperbus Profspektakel1st Stage 1 Four Days of Dunkirk2nd Road race, National Road Championships2nd Ronde van Drenthe2nd Scheldeprijs2nd Ronde van Noord-Holland3rd Arno Wallaard Memorial8th Münsterland Giro2010Tour of Hainan1st Stages 4, 5, 7 & 91st Stage 1 Tour de Picardie1st Stage 2 Tour of Belgium2nd Arno Wallaard Memorial2nd Dutch Food Valley Cl*ic2nd Omloop van het Houtland4th Ronde van Overijssel5th Ronde van het Groene Hart8th Trofeo Cala Millor8th Profronde van Fryslan20111st Overall Ronde van Drenthe1st Stages 1 & 21st Memorial Rik Van SteenbergenTour of Hainan1st Points cl*ification1st Stages 6, 7 & 91st Stage 8 Tour of Turkey2nd Handzame Cl*ic2nd Tour de Rijke7th Nationale Sluitingsprijs10th Scheldeprijs20122nd Overall Tour de Picardie1st Stage 22nd Memorial Rik Van Steenbergen2nd Grand Prix d'Isbergues3rd Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne5th Handzame Cl*ic5th Ronde van Zeeland Seaports5th Halle–Ingooigem6th Grand Prix de Denain9th Paris–Brussels20132nd Overall Arctic Race of Norway1st Stage 12nd Handzame Cl*ic3rd Overall Tour de Picardie3rd Ronde van Zeeland Seaports3rd Dutch Food Valley Cl*ic5th Omloop van het Houtland20141st Stage 6 Tour de Langkawi1st Stage 1 Tour d'Azerbaïdjan1st Stage 10 Vuelta a Venezuela4th Grand Prix de Denain4th Grote Prijs Jef Scherens6th Kampioenschap van Vlaanderen8th Volta Limburg Cl*ic9th Ronde van Zeeland Seaports

Grand Tour general cl*ification results timeline

References

External links

• Profile on Skil-Shimano official website
• Official website (in Dutch)