Johan Jacobs

Johan Jacobs (born 1 March 1997) is a Swiss road and cyclo-cross cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam. He competed in the men's under-23 event at the 2016 UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships.

Career
Jacobs early career started in cyclo-cross, winning multiple national titles and world cup races. In 2015 Jacobs won the eighth race in the Superprestige at Middelkerke series. This stopped Eli Iserbyt from winning every race in the series. At the Junior Koppenbergcross Jacobs attacked from the start and held off everyone for the entire race forcing Iserbyt and Thijs Wolsink to work together.

Jacobs elected not to ride cyclo-cross race in his final year as an Under-23 instead wanting to focus on road cycling, this put him into the spotlight for a contract with. He was the only rider able to follow the winning move by Tom Pidcock in the Paris–Roubaix Espoirs which earned him a second place. These efforts caught the eye of 's manager Eusebio Unzué and led to getting a two-year contract with the UCI WorldTour team in 2020.

While riding the 2021 Vuelta a España Jacobs crashed during stage 9. He went through a guardrail resulting in a broken shoulder, rib and a collapsed lung. He did not race again in the 2021 season.

extended Jacobs contract by one year till the end of 2024. Jacobs elected to not race cyclo-cross over the 2023 winter so that he would have more time to prepare for the 2024 road season.

Major results
Sources:

Cyclo-cross

 * 2013–2014
 * 1st National Junior Championships
 * 2nd Overall Junior Superprestige
 * 1st Middelkerke
 * 2nd Hoogstraten


 * 2014–2015
 * 1st National Junior Championships
 * Junior BPost Bank Trophy
 * 1st Koppenbergcross
 * 1st GP Sven Nys
 * 1st Krawatencross
 * 2nd Overall UCI Junior World Cup
 * 1st Namur
 * 3rd Valkenburg
 * 2nd Overall Junior Superprestige
 * 1st Middelkerke
 * 2nd Zonhoven
 * 2nd Ruddervoorde
 * 2nd Hoogstraten
 * 3rd Gieten
 * 3rd Diegem
 * 3rd Bronze medal europe.svg UEC European Junior Championships


 * 2015–2016
 * 3rd National Under-23 Championships


 * 2016–2017
 * 1st National Under-23 Championships


 * 2017–2018
 * 2nd National Under-23 Championships
 * National Trophy Series
 * 3rd Ipswich

Road

 * 2019
 * 1st Stage 2 (TTT) Tour de l'Avenir
 * 2nd Paris–Roubaix Espoirs
 * 7th Ronde van Vlaanderen Beloften
 * 8th Sundvolden GP


 * 2020
 * 4th Road race, National Championships


 * 2021
 * 3rd Road race, National Championships