Belgian road racing cyclist

Tim Wellens (born 10 May 1991) is a Belgian professional road cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Lotto–Soudal.

Contents

• 1 Career
  • 1.1 2012 season
  • 1.2 2014 season
  • 1.3 2015 season
  • 1.4 2016 season
  • 1.5 2017 season
  • 1.6 2018 season
  • 1.7 2020 season
  • 1.8 2021 season
• 2 Major results
  • 2.1 Grand Tour general cl*ification results timeline
  • 2.2 Cl*ics results timeline
• 3 References
• 4 External links

Career

Born in Sint-Truiden, Wellens has competed as a professional since the middle of the 2012 season, joining the Lotto–Belisol team after three seasons with the squad's development team.

2012 season

Wellens made his début with the team at the GP José Dubois, where he finished eighth; he later made his first appearances on the UCI World Tour, by competing in the Canadian pair of races in Quebec, and Montreal attempting to bridge to each race's breakaway during the respective events. Wellens performed strongly in the season-ending Tour of Beijing, finishing each of the race's stages inside the top 25 placings:– taking a best of fifth on the final stage:– en route to a final overall placing of tenth, and second to Saxo Bank–Tinkoff Bank rider Rafał Majka in the young rider cl*ification.

2014 season

Wellens at the 2014 Giro d'Italia

In August 2014, Wellens won Stage 6 in the Eneco Tour with a solo breakaway. The time he gained on this stage meant he ultimately won the race overall.

2015 season

He was named in the start list for the Tour de France. At the Eneco Tour, on Stage 6 Wellens attacked on the Côte Saint-Roch, then won nine seconds in the sprints in the golden kilometre. The main group was not able to chase Wellens down and his lead extended during the downhill run into Houffalize; he won the stage by 49 seconds ahead of Greg Van Avermaet, with Simon Geschke third. Wellens moved into the overall lead, 1' 03" ahead of Van Avermaet, with Wilco Kelderman dropping to third. Wellens defended his lead on the final stage to win his second successive Eneco Tour.

2016 season

At the Giro d'Italia, Wellens won Stage 6 after joining the successful breakaway partway through the stage. In July 2016, Wellens won Stage 5 of the Tour de Pologne with a solo breakaway in a rain soaked stage in which 85 riders abandoned. This gave him a lead of over 4 minutes in the general cl*ification, which he successfully defended to the end of the race.

2017 season

Wellens abandoned Stage 15 of the Tour de France because of heat and pollen allergies which he refused to treat with a therapeutic use exemption (TUE), which he does not approve to use. Despite having asthma, Wellens does not use an inhaler and also criticised Chris Froome during his salbutamol case.

2018 season

Wellens' first victory in 2018 came at the Trofeo Serra de Tramuntana where he won the race for a second year in a row. At the Vuelta a Andalucía, Wellens won stage 4 and took the lead of the overall standings, by beating Mikel Landa on the cobbled climb of Alcalá de los Gazules.

2020 season

In October 2020, he was named in the startlist for the Vuelta a España. He won two stages during the race, and finished second to Guillaume Martin in the mountains cl*ification.

2021 season

In February 2021, he won stage 3 of the Étoile de Bessèges and finished first in the general cl*ification.

Major results

20081st National Junior XC MTB Championships4th Overall Liège–La Gleize20092nd Overall Tour d'Istrie1st Stage 13rd Overall Tre Giorni Orobica5th Road race, National Junior Road Championships5th Overall Liège–La Gleize1st Stage 420107th Overall Tour des Pays de Savoie20115th Time trial, National Under-23 Road Championships5th Overall Tour des Pays de Savoie20122nd Overall Toscana-Terra di Ciclismo2nd Overall Vuelta a Navarra4th Circuit de Wallonie8th Overall Circuit des Ardennes1st Young rider cl*ification8th Grand Prix José Dubois10th Overall Tour de l'Avenir10th Overall Tour of Beijing20138th Overall Tour de Wallonie20141st Overall Eneco Tour1st Stage 62nd Time trial, National Road Championships2nd Overall Ster ZLM Toer4th Giro di Lombardia6th GP Ouest–France20151st Overall Eneco Tour1st Stage 61st Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal2nd Trofeo Serra de Tramuntana10th Overall Paris–Nice10th Trofeo Andratx–Mirador d'es Colomer20161st Overall Tour de Pologne1st Mountains cl*ification1st Stage 5Giro d'Italia1st Stage 6Held after Stages 7–91st Stage 7 Paris–Nice2nd Road race, National Road Championships10th Trofeo Serra de Tramuntana10th Amstel Gold Race20171st Overall Tour of Guangxi1st Stage 41st Grand Prix de Wallonie1st Trofeo Serra de Tramuntana1st Trofeo Pollenca–Port de Andratx1st Stage 5 Vuelta a Andalucía2nd Overall BinckBank Tour1st Stage 63rd Strade Bianche4th Brabantse Pijl5th Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec9th Grote Prijs Jef Scherens20181st Overall Tour de Wallonie1st Stage 21st Overall Vuelta a Andalucía1st Stage 41st Brabantse Pijl1st Trofeo Serra de Tramuntana1st Stage 4 Giro d'Italia3rd Overall BinckBank Tour3rd Bretagne Cl*ic5th Overall Paris–Nice1st Points cl*ification5th Giro di Lombardia6th Amstel Gold Race7th La Flèche Wallonne7th Trofeo Lloseta–Andratx20191st Trofeo Serra de Tramuntana2nd Trofeo Andratx–Lloseta3rd Overall BinckBank Tour1st Stage 43rd Overall Tour of Belgium1st Stage 3 (ITT)3rd Omloop Het Nieuwsblad3rd Brabantse Pijl4th Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal5th Trofeo Campos, Porreres, Felanitx, Ses Salines8th Bretagne Cl*ic9th Overall Vuelta a Andalucía1st Points cl*ification1st Stages 1 & 3 (ITT)9th Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec10th Strade Bianche10th Tre Valli VaresineTour de FranceHeld after Stages 3–17 Combativity award Stages 3 & 62020Vuelta a España1st Stages 5 & 14Held after Stages 5–64th Overall Tour de Luxembourg5th Overall Volta ao Algarve20211st Overall Étoile de Bessèges1st Stage 34th Overall Benelux Tour6th Overall Tour de Pologne6th Grand Prix La Marseillaise7th Overall Tirreno–Adriatico20221st Trofeo Serra de Tramuntana2nd Overall Tour des Alpes-Maritimes et du Var1st Stage 22nd Clásica Jaén4th Trofeo Calvià8th Strade Bianche8th Trofeo Pollença - Port d'Andratx9th Brabantse Pijl

Grand Tour general cl*ification results timeline

Cl*ics results timeline

References

External links

• Tim Wellens at ProCyclingStats
• Lotto-Belisol profile
• Tim Wellens at Cycling Archives
• Cycling Quotient profile