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Swiss bicycle racer From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Johan Jacobs (born 1 March 1997) is a Swiss road and cyclo-cross cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Movistar Team.[2] He competed in the men's under-23 event at the 2016 UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships.[3]
Personal information | |
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Born | Zürich, Switzerland | 1 March 1997
Height | 1.92 m (6 ft 4 in) |
Weight | 72 kg (159 lb) |
Team information | |
Current team | Movistar Team |
Disciplines | Road Cyclo-cross |
Role | Rider |
Amateur teams | |
2015 | Lares–Doltcini |
2017 | Balen BC |
2019 | Lotto–Soudal U23 |
Professional teams | |
2016 | Marlux–Napoleon Games |
2018 | Pauwels Sauzen–Vastgoedservice |
2020– | Movistar Team[1] |
Jacobs early career started in cyclo-cross, winning multiple national titles and world cup races.[4] In 2015 Jacobs won the eighth race in the Superprestige at Middelkerke series. This stopped Eli Iserbyt from winning every race in the series.[5] 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.[6]
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 Lotto–Soudal U23.[7] 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.[4] These efforts caught the eye of Movistar Team's manager Eusebio Unzué and led to getting a two-year contract with the UCI WorldTour team in 2020.[4]
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.[8] He did not race again in the 2021 season.
Movistar Team extended Jacobs contract by one year till the end of 2024.[9] 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.[10][11]
— | Did not compete |
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DNF | Did not finish |
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