Gerben Thijssen

Gerben Thijssen (born 21 June 1998) is a Belgian road and track cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam.

Career
Thijssen won the bronze medal at the 2015 UCI Juniors Track World Championships in the points race. He won the silver medal at the 2016–17 UCI Track Cycling World Cup in Apeldoorn in the team pursuit. In 2016, as a junior he won 2 stages in the Nations Cup Trofeo Karlsberg, the Omloop van de Vlaamse Gewesten and a Belgian Cup stage in Nederhasselt. He represented Belgium at the UCI Juniors Road World Championships in Qatar. In 2017, as a U23-rider he won the Grote Prijs Stad Sint-Niklaas and a stage in Olympia's Tour. He won the gold medal at the 2017 UEC European Track Championships in the Elite Elimination Race. In 2018, he was the Belgian champion in the U23-category. In November 2019, Thijssen crashed out of the Six Days of Ghent, suffering three small brain haemorrhages before being admitted to intensive care.

In October 2020, he was named in the startlist for the 2020 Vuelta a España.

In October 2023, Thijssen and Estonian rider Madis Mihkels were pulled by their team from the Tour of Guangxi, after Mihkels made a racist gesture. Mihkels pulled his eyes into slants, in a picture Thijssen posted on his Instagram.

Road

 * 2016
 * 1st Omloop der Vlaamse Gewesten
 * Trofeo Karlsberg
 * 1st Stages 1 & 2a
 * 1st Stage 1 Internationale Cottbuser Junioren-Etappenfahrt


 * 2017
 * 1st Grote Prijs Stad Sint-Niklaas
 * 1st Stage 4 Olympia's Tour
 * 2nd Gooikse Pijl
 * 3rd Paris–Tours Espoirs
 * 7th Ronde van Overijssel
 * 7th Eschborn-Frankfurt City Loop U23


 * 2018
 * 1st MaillotBélgica.PNG Road race, National Under-23 Championships
 * 5th Paris–Troyes


 * 2019
 * 1st Memorial Van Coningsloo
 * 1st Stage 1 Paris–Arras Tour
 * 4th Overall Tour d'Eure-et-Loir
 * 1st Jersey white.svg Young rider classification
 * 1st Stage 2
 * 6th Road race, UEC European Under-23 Championships


 * 2020
 * 2nd Gooikse Pijl


 * 2021
 * 3rd Omloop van het Houtland
 * 5th Grand Prix de Fourmies


 * 2022 (3 pro wins)
 * 1st Gooikse Pijl
 * 1st Stage 2 Tour de Pologne
 * 1st Stage 6 Four Days of Dunkirk
 * 2nd Veenendaal–Veenendaal Classic
 * 3rd Grote Prijs Marcel Kint
 * 4th Grote Prijs Jean-Pierre Monseré
 * 5th Bredene Koksijde Classic
 * 7th Antwerp Port Epic
 * 7th Kampioenschap van Vlaanderen
 * 9th Omloop van het Houtland


 * 2023 (4)
 * 1st Bredene Koksijde Classic
 * 1st Grote Prijs Jean-Pierre Monseré
 * 1st Ronde van Limburg
 * 1st Omloop van het Houtland
 * 2nd Grand Prix de Fourmies
 * 2nd La Roue Tourangelle
 * 3rd Van Merksteijn Fences Classic
 * 4th Gooikse Pijl
 * 5th Scheldeprijs
 * 5th Elfstedenronde
 * 8th Albert Achterhes Profronde van Drenthe


 * 2024 (2)
 * 1st Trofeo Palma
 * Volta ao Algarve
 * 1st Jersey green.svg Points classification
 * 1st Stage 1
 * 2nd La Roue Tourangelle
 * 3rd Bredene Koksijde Classic
 * 5th Clásica de Almería
 * 5th Ronde van Limburg
 * 9th Heistse Pijl

Track

 * 2015
 * National Junior Championships
 * 1st MaillotBélgica.PNG Madison (with Robbe Ghys)
 * 3rd Keirin
 * 2nd Silver medal europe.svg Madison, UEC European Junior Championships (with Robbe Ghys)
 * 3rd Bronze medal uci.svg Points race, UCI World Junior Championships


 * 2016
 * National Junior Championships
 * 1st MaillotBélgica.PNG Omnium
 * 1st MaillotBélgica.PNG Points race
 * 2nd Elimination race
 * 2nd Individual pursuit
 * 2nd Kilo
 * 2nd Madison (with Sasha Weemaes)
 * 1st Six Days of Ghent U23 (with Jules Hesters)
 * UEC European Junior Championships
 * 2nd Silver medal europe.svg Madison (with Jules Hesters)
 * 3rd Bronze medal europe.svg Points race
 * 2nd Team pursuit, UCI World Cup, Apeldoorn


 * 2017
 * 1st European champion jersey 2016.svg Elimination race, UEC European Championships
 * 2nd Silver medal europe.svg Team pursuit, UEC European Under-23 Championships


 * 2019
 * 2nd Silver medal europe.svg Team pursuit, UEC European Under-23 Championships
 * 2nd Omnium, National Championships