Kris Boeckmans

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Belgian road racing cyclist

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Field	Value
name	Kris Boeckmans
image	Denain - Grand Prix de Denain, 16 avril 2015 (B136).JPG
caption	Boeckmans at the 2015 Grand Prix de Denain
fullname	Kris Boeckmans
nickname	Boecki
birth_date
birth_place	Malle, Belgium
height	1.80 m
weight	72.5 kg
currentteam	Retired
discipline	Road
role	Rider
ridertype	Sprinter
amateuryears1	2006
amateurteam1	Nieuwe Hoop Tielen
amateuryears2	2007
amateurteam2	CLC Team Ingelmunster
amateuryears3	2008–2009
amateurteam3
amateuryears4	2009
amateurteam4	(stagiaire)
proyears1	2010–2011
proteam1
proyears2	2012–2013
proteam2
proyears3	2014–2017
proteam3
proyears4	2018–2020
proteam4
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Career

Born in Malle, Boeckmans began competing as a professional in the second half of the 2009 season, competing for the team as a stagiaire. He joined for the start of the 2010 season, remaining with the team until the end of 2011, when he joined the squad for the 2012 season. Boeckmans made his Grand Tour début at the 2012 Tour de France, where he was earmarked as one of the squad's main sprint contenders, along with Kenny van Hummel; Boeckmans took his first top ten placing on stage 4, when he finished eighth on the stage.

After two years with , Boeckemans left the team at the end of the 2013 season, to join . He started the 2015 Vuelta a España. However, on the eighth stage, he was involved in a large crash: he was drinking from a bidon and hit a hole in the road, falling hard to the ground. According to Cyclingnews.com, he suffered "facial trauma and fractures, a concussion, broken ribs and a punctured lung" and was placed into an induced coma. He was kept in the coma for over a week and was eventually discharged around four weeks after the crash, following major facial surgery in Belgium.

Major results

;2007 : 2nd Zellik–Galmaarden ;2008 : 1st GP Stad Vilvoorde : 1st Stage 1b Vuelta a Navarra : 5th Overall Tour de Berlin ::1st Stage 1 : 7th ZLM Tour : 9th Grand Prix de Waregem : 10th Kattekoers ;2009 : 1st [[File:UEC Champion Jersey.svg|20px]] Road race, UEC European Under-23 Road Championships : 1st [[File:Jersey yellow.svg|20px]] Overall Le Triptyque des Monts et Châteaux ::1st Stage 2b : 1st Schaal Sels : 1st Stage 2 Vuelta a Navarra : 2nd Overall Ronde van Antwerpen ::1st Stages 1a (ITT) & 3 : 2nd Brussel–Zepperen : 2nd Paris–Tours Espoirs : 4th GP Raymond Impanis : 5th Kattekoers ;2010 : 1st Stage 5 Ster Elektrotoer : 2nd Overall Driedaagse van West-Vlaanderen ::1st Stage 3 : 2nd Nokere Koerse : 7th Scheldeprijs : 8th Omloop van het Waasland : 8th Nationale Sluitingsprijs : 9th Wanzele-Lede : 10th Dwars door Drenthe : 10th Grand Prix de Denain ;2011 : 3rd Münsterland Giro : 4th Puivelde Koerse : 6th Sparkassen Giro Bochum : 9th Omloop Gemeente Melle ;2012 : 2nd Le Samyn : 2nd Nokere Koerse ;2013 : 2nd Le Samyn : 5th Schaal Sels : 6th Halle–Ingooigem ;2014 : 2nd Halle–Ingooigem ;2015 : 1st [[File:Jersey green.svg|20px]] Overall Tour de Picardie ::1st Stages 1 & 3 : 1st [[File:Jersey blue.svg|20px]] Overall World Ports Classic ::1st [[File:Jersey green.svg|20px]] Points classification ::1st Stage 2 : 1st Le Samyn : 1st Nokere Koerse : 2nd Halle–Ingooigem : 3rd Overall Étoile de Bessèges ::1st Stage 1 ;2016 : 5th Kampioenschap van Vlaanderen ;2018 : 5th Halle–Ingooigem ;2019 : 6th Scheldeprijs

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

::data[format=table] | Grand Tour | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | [[File:Jersey pink.svg|20px|link=|alt=A pink jersey]] Giro d'Italia | [[File:Jersey yellow.svg|20px|link=|alt=A yellow jersey]] Tour de France | [[File:Jersey red.svg|20px|link=|alt=A red jersey]] Vuelta a España | |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| | — | — | — | — | | | | | | 115 | DNF | — | — | | | | | | — | — | — | DNF | | | | | ::

References

(8 August 2013). "Boeckmans reinforces the team". Belgian Cycling Project.
Malvestio, Carlo. (22 January 2019). "Presentazione Squadre 2019, Vital Concept – B&B Hotels". Gravatar.
"B&B Hotels - Vital Concept". [[Union Cycliste Internationale]].
Bonnefoy, François. (25 November 2020). "Route - Arthur Vichot pas conservé par B&B Hotels - Vital Concept". Swar Agency.
Haake, Bjorn. (18 August 2011). "Vacansoleil hires Kris Boeckmans". VeloNation LLC.
Benson, Daniel. (4 July 2012). "Greipel wins Tour de France stage in Rouen". Future Publishing Limited.
"Vacansoleil-DCM Pro Cycling Team (VCD) – NED". [[Union Cycliste Internationale]].
"Vuelta a España 2015". Cycling Fever.
(29 August 2015). "Boeckmans seriously injured in Vuelta a Espana crash". [[Cyclingnews.com]].
"Vuelta a Espana: Kris Boeckmans in induced coma after crash". BBC Sport.
(24 September 2015). "News shorts: Boeckmans out of hospital, Moscon to Team Sky". [[Immediate Media Company]].

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