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Johan Jacobs
Personal information
Born (1997-03-01) 1 March 1997 (age 27)
Zürich, Switzerland
Height1.92 m (6 ft 4 in)
Weight72 kg (159 lb)
Team information
Current teamGroupama–FDJ
DisciplinesRoad
Cyclo-cross
RoleRider
Amateur teams
2015Lares–Doltcini
2017Balen BC
2019Lotto–Soudal U23
Professional teams
2016Marlux–Napoleon Games
2018Pauwels Sauzen–Vastgoedservice
2020–2024Movistar Team
2025–Groupama–FDJ

Johan Jacobs (born 1 March 1997) is a Swiss road and cyclo-cross cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Groupama–FDJ.

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 Lotto–Soudal U23. 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 Movistar Team'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.

Movistar Team 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 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

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

Grand Tour 2021
Giro d'Italia —
Tour de France —
Vuelta a España DNF
Legend
— Did not compete
DNF Did not finish

References

  1. "Movistar Team ready to open new era in 2020". Movistar Team. Abarca Sports SL. 19 December 2019. Retrieved 2 January 2020.
  2. "Movistar Team". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 1 January 2021. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
  3. "Groupama – FDJ". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Retrieved 5 January 2025.
  4. ^ "Johan Jacobs: Swiss power for the Movistar Team | Movistar Team". Movistar Team. 16 August 2019. Retrieved 27 January 2024.
  5. Reimann, Andrew (14 February 2015). "Jacobs Dashes Iserbyt's Perfect 2014-15 Superprestige Series with a Win at Middelkerke: Race Report and Full Results". Cyclocross Magazine - Cyclocross and Gravel News, Races, Bikes, Media. Retrieved 27 January 2024.
  6. Reimann, Andrew (7 February 2015). "Sweeck and Jacobs Take U23, Junior Wins in BPost Bank at Krawatencross - Updated: Full Results". Cyclocross Magazine - Cyclocross and Gravel News, Races, Bikes, Media. Retrieved 27 January 2024.
  7. "Get to know Johan Jacobs". U23 Cycling Zone. 13 May 2019. Retrieved 27 January 2024.
  8. "VN news ticker: UAE-Team Emirates retains Fernando Gaviria, others; Joss Lowden signs for Uno-X". Velo. 23 August 2021. Retrieved 27 January 2024.
  9. Moultrie, James (10 October 2023). "Movistar unveil 12 contract extensions in single announcement". cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 27 January 2024.
  10. Hamilton, Alastair (14 December 2023). "EUROTRASH Thursday: The Uijtdebroeks Fiasco and All the Latest News!". PezCycling News. Retrieved 27 January 2024.
  11. "Johan Jacobs will skip cyclocross races this year to be fully prepare for early start to the new season: "There would be little time to do any racing anways"". CyclingUpToDate.com. 13 December 2023. Retrieved 27 January 2024.
  12. "Johan Jacobs". FirstCycling.com. Retrieved 27 January 2024.
  13. "Johan Jacobs". www.procyclingstats.com. Retrieved 27 January 2024.
  14. "Johan Jacobs". cyclingarchives.com. Retrieved 1 February 2016.

External links

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