Dutch cyclist

In this Dutch name, the surname is de Jong, not Jong.

Thalita de Jong (born 6 November 1993) is a Dutch racing cyclist, who currently rides for Dutch amateur team JEGG–DJR Academy. In 2016, de Jong won the elite women's *le at the Dutch National Cyclo-cross Championships, the UEC European Cyclo-cross Championships and the UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships.

Contents

• 1 Career
• 2 Personal life
• 3 Major results
  • 3.1 Road
  • 3.2 Cyclo-cross
• 4 See also
• 5 References
• 6 External links

Career

She competed in the 2013 UCI women's team time trial in Florence. She won gold at the 2016 UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships in Zolder, Belgium.

After five years with Rabo–Liv, in August 2016 Lares–Waowdeals announced that de Jong would join them for the 2017 season, leading the team on the road and in cyclo-cross. De Jong suffered a 2017 cyclocross season ending injury, falling at the Grand Prix Adrie van der Poel. Medical issues plagued her 2017 road season, by the end of the year, de Jong signed with the former Sport Vlaanderen–Guill D'or as it became Experza–Footlogix in 2018. During the 2019 season, she joined the Chevalmeire Cycling Team. She remained with the team until early in the 2022 season. Following several top-five finishes in the spring with JEGG–DJR Academy, de Jong will join Liv Racing–Xstra from June, a team she had previously turned professional with.

Personal life

She is the older sister of fellow professional cyclist, Demi de Jong.

Major results

Road

2011National Junior Road Championships1st Time trial3rd Road race8th Overall Tour de Bretagne Féminin20121st Time trial, Zuid-West-Nederland District Road Championships3rd Open de Suède Vårgårda TTT4th Time trial, UEC European Under-23 Road Championships20132nd Team time trial, UCI Road World Championships2nd Overall Tour de Bretagne Féminin1st Young rider cl*ification2nd Open de Suède Vårgårda TTTUEC European Under-23 Road Championships6th Time trial9th Road race10th GP Leende20142nd Open de Suède Vårgårda TTT3rd Overall Belgium Tour1st Sprints cl*ification1st Young rider cl*ification1st Stage 2 (TTT)UEC European Under-23 Road Championships4th Time trial4th Road race4th Dwars door de Westhoek4th Ronde van Gelderland4th Omloop van het Hageland6th Overall Festival Luxembourgeois du cyclisme féminin Elsy Jacobs10th Overall Ladies Tour of Norway20151st Erondegemse Pijl1st Crescent Women World Cup Vårgårda TTT2nd Grote Prijs De Wielkeszuigers3rd Team time trial, UCI Road World ChampionshipsUEC European Under-23 Road Championships3rd Time trial4th Road race3rd GP Gippingen4th Overall Holland Ladies Tour1st Young rider cl*ficiation1st Stage 610th Holland Hills Cl*ic20161st Putte (Antwerp) Criterium1st Stage 9 Giro d'Italia Femminile2nd Overall Ladies Tour of Norway1st Young rider cl*ficiation3rd Erondegemse Pijl6th Overall Giro del Trentino Alto Adige-Südtirol1st Points cl*ification1st Stages 2a (TTT) & 2b20175th Dwars door Vlaanderen20211st Grote Prijs Beerens5th Overall Festival Elsy Jacobs1st Mountains cl*ification7th Overall Tour Cycliste Féminin International de l'Ardèche20221st Ronde de Mouscron3rd Volta Limburg Cl*ic4th Drentse Acht van Westerveld5th Leiedal Koerse

Cyclo-cross

2013–20148th Women's race, UCI World Championships2015–20161st Women's race, UCI World Championships1st Women's race, National Championships1st Grand Prix du Nouvel-An1st Grand-Prix de la Commune de Contern1st Bredenecross2nd Grand Prix Adrie van der Poel, UCI Cyclo-cross World Cup6th Women's race, UEC European Championships10th Overall BPost Bank Trophy1st Waaslandcross2nd Grand Prix Rouwmoer2016–20171st Women's race, UEC European Championships1st Caubergcross, UCI Cyclo-cross World Cup1st Grand Prix de la Région Wallonne, Superprestige1st Bredenecross, Brico Cross Trophy1st Kasteelcross Zonnebeke1st Grand-Prix de la Commune de Contern2nd Overall DVV Trophy1st GP Mario De Clercq2nd Koppenbergcross3rd Flandriencross3rd Grand Prix Rouwmoer3rd Azencross3rd Grand Prix Sven Nys2017–20181st Kasteelcross Zonnebeke1st Grand Prix Möbel Alvisse2nd Cyclocross Leuven2019–20202nd Grand-Prix de la Commune de Contern

See also

• 2012 Rabobank Women Cycling Team season
• 2014 Rabo–Liv Women Cycling Team season

References

External links

• Thalita de Jong at Cycling Archives
• Thalita de Jong at ProCyclingStats
• Thalita de Jong at Cycling Quotient
• Thalita de Jong at UCI
• Thalita de Jong at Cross Results