Jos van Emden

Jos van Emden (born 18 February 1985) is a Dutch former professional road bicycle racer, who rode professionally between 2005 and 2023 for the, the and.

During his career, Van Emden's specialty was in individual time trials, with 11 of his 14 professional victories coming in the discipline – including 3 victories in the Dutch National Time Trial Championships and a stage win at the 2017 Giro d'Italia. He was also part of the Dutch team that won the inaugural World Championships mixed team relay event, held in Yorkshire in 2019.

Following his retirement at the end of the 2023 season, Van Emden became a directeur sportif with UCI Women's WorldTeam.

Career
Born in Schiedam, Van Emden started racing at UCI level in 2005 with the. During his second year, he took eight victories in his first season with the – two overall stage race victories along with stage wins across five races – and finished seventh in the under-23 road race at the 2006 UCI Road World Championships. The next year, he achieved his first professional victory when he won the Münsterland Giro. After three further victories in 2008, Van Emden was promoted to the main team before the end of the season.

His debut in a Grand Tour came in 2009, when he took part in the Giro d'Italia. One year later, he finished ninth in two different stages of that same race, and achieved two time-trial victories in one week, winning the prologues of the Delta Tour Zeeland and the Ster Elektrotoer. Later that year, he was the winner of the Dutch National Time Trial Championships. He repeated his prologue victory at the Delta Tour Zeeland in 2011, and he also finished in fifth place overall at UCI World Tour race, the Eneco Tour. Van Emden's next victory came at the 2013 Münsterland Giro, joining Marcel Kittel as a two-time winner of the race, having broken clear from a lead group in the closing kilometres.

Van Emden made international headlines when he proposed to his girlfriend during the second time trial stage of the 2014 Giro d'Italia. After she accepted, he finished the stage 120th out of 156 starters. His best results during the 2014 season were third-place finishes in the Dutch National Time Trial Championships and the Arnhem–Veenendaal Classic. In 2015, Van Emden finished second in the time trial stage of the Tour of California, sitting in the leader's hot seat all day before being beaten by Peter Sagan. Two months later, Van Emden participated in his first Tour de France; he finished fifth in the opening time trial that took place in his home country. His biggest victory at that time came when he won the time trial stage of the Eneco Tour, subsequently gaining the right to wear the leader's jersey.

In 2016, Van Emden again won the opening time trial stage of the now-renamed Ster ZLM Toer, ultimately finishing the race in third place overall. He finished second in the Dutch National Time Trial Championships, more than half a minute down on race winner Tom Dumoulin. After riding the Giro d'Italia in the spring, Van Emden made his first start at the Vuelta a España, but failed to finish the race. He finished the season with an eighth-place finish in the time trial at the UCI Road World Championships in Qatar.

In 2017, Van Emden beat Silvan Dillier to the line to win Dwars door West-Vlaanderen in March, before taking his first Grand Tour stage victory at the Giro d'Italia in May, winning the final 29.3 km individual time trial stage between the Monza Circuit and Milan. Later in the season, he placed fifth in the time trial at the UEC European Road Championships in Denmark. The following year, he was part of the squad that won the team time trial at the Tour of Britain, and he finished second in individual time trial stages at Tirreno–Adriatico and the Critérium du Dauphiné.

Van Emden took his third prologue victory at the again-renamed ZLM Tour in 2019, and the following week, he won the Dutch National Time Trial Championships for the second time. Later in the season, Van Emden was part of the Dutch team that won the inaugural World Championships mixed team relay event, held in Yorkshire, and finished the season with a victory in the Chrono des Nations. In 2021, Van Emden took further medals in the mixed team relay at both the World Championships (silver) and the European Championships (bronze), with his final professional victory coming with his third Dutch national time trial title in June 2023. In August 2023, Van Emden announced his retirement from the sport as of the end of the season, and became a directeur sportif with UCI Women's WorldTeam.

Major results
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 * 2006
 * 1st Jersey yellow.svg Overall Roserittet DNV GP
 * 1st Stage 1
 * 1st Jersey yellow.svg Overall Triptyque des Barrages
 * 1st Stage 2 (ITT)
 * Grand Prix Guillaume Tell
 * 1st Prologue & Stage 1
 * 1st Stage 1 Tour du Loir-et-Cher
 * 3rd Overall Tour de Normandie
 * 1st Stage 4
 * 3rd Ronde van Overijssel
 * National Under-23 Road Championships
 * 4th Time trial
 * 5th Road race
 * 4th Paris–Tours Espoirs
 * 5th Omloop van het Waasland
 * 6th Ronde van Noord-Holland
 * 7th Road race, UCI Under-23 Road World Championships
 * 8th Time trial, UEC European Under-23 Road Championships


 * 2007
 * 1st Münsterland Giro
 * 1st Prologue (TTT) Tour Alsace
 * National Under-23 Road Championships
 * 2nd Time trial
 * 3rd Road race


 * 2008
 * 1st Stage 1 Rhône-Alpes Isère Tour
 * 1st Stage 5 Vuelta Ciclista a León
 * 5th Overall Olympia's Tour
 * 5th Ronde van Drenthe
 * 7th Overall Le Triptyque des Monts et Châteaux
 * 7th Halle–Ingooigem
 * 8th Overall Tour de Normandie
 * 1st Stage 7
 * 9th Overall Boucles de la Mayenne


 * 2009
 * 8th Kampioenschap van Vlaanderen
 * 10th Overall Sachsen Tour


 * 2010
 * 1st MaillotHolanda.PNG Time trial, National Road Championships
 * 1st Prologue Ster Elektrotoer
 * 2nd Overall Delta Tour Zeeland
 * 1st Jersey white.svg Young rider classification
 * 1st Prologue
 * 2nd Hel van het Mergelland


 * 2011
 * 1st Stadsprijs Geraardsbergen
 * 3rd Overall Delta Tour Zeeland
 * 1st Prologue
 * 5th Overall Eneco Tour


 * 2013
 * 1st Münsterland Giro
 * 4th Overall Tour of Hainan


 * 2014
 * 3rd Time trial, National Road Championships
 * 3rd Arnhem–Veenendaal Classic
 * 9th Overall Ster ZLM Toer
 * 10th Paris–Tours


 * 2015
 * 1st Stage 4 (ITT) Eneco Tour
 * 3rd Time trial, National Road Championships
 * 6th Overall Tour du Poitou-Charentes


 * 2016
 * 2nd Time trial, National Road Championships
 * 3rd Overall Ster ZLM Toer
 * 1st Stage 1 (ITT)
 * 5th Overall Eneco Tour
 * 8th Time trial, UCI Road World Championships


 * 2017
 * 1st Dwars door West-Vlaanderen
 * 1st Stage 21 (ITT) Giro d'Italia
 * 4th Time trial, National Road Championships
 * 5th Time trial, UEC European Road Championships
 * 6th Overall Tour of Britain
 * 8th Le Samyn


 * 2018
 * 1st Stage 5 (TTT) Tour of Britain
 * 5th Time trial, National Road Championships
 * 8th Time trial, UEC European Road Championships
 * 10th Paris–Tours


 * 2019
 * 1st Gold medal uci.svg Mixed team relay, UCI Road World Championships
 * 1st MaillotHolanda.PNG Time trial, National Road Championships
 * 1st Chrono des Nations
 * 1st Stage 1 (TTT) UAE Tour
 * 3rd Binche–Chimay–Binche
 * 8th Overall ZLM Tour
 * 1st Prologue
 * 8th Time trial, UEC European Road Championships


 * 2020
 * 5th Road race, National Road Championships


 * 2021
 * 2nd Silver medal uci.svg Mixed team relay, UCI Road World Championships
 * 3rd Bronze medal europe.svg Mixed team relay, UEC European Road Championships


 * 2022
 * 4th Time trial, National Road Championships
 * 9th Time trial, UEC European Road Championships


 * 2023
 * 1st MaillotHolanda.PNG Time trial, National Road Championships