Jos van Emden

Jos van Emden

Van Emden at the 2015 Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne road race
Personal information
Full name	Jos van Emden
Born	18 February 1985 Schiedam, the Netherlands
Height	1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)
Weight	74 kg (163 lb)
Team information
Current team	LottoNL–Jumbo
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Rider type	Time trialist
Professional team(s)
2006–2008	Rabobank Continental Team
2008–	Rabobank
Major wins
National Time Trial Championships (2010), Stage 4 Eneco Tour (2015)
Infobox last updated on 13 August 2015

Jos van Emden (born 18 February 1985 in Schiedam) is a Dutch professional road bicycle racer for UCI ProTour team LottoNL–Jumbo. He is known as a time-trial specialist.

Career

Van Emden started racing in 2005. During his second year, he won four stages in three different races, became the overall winner of two other stage races and finished seventh in the Under-23 Road World Championships. The next year, he achieved his first professional victory when he won the Münsterland Giro.^[1]

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 ZLM Toer. Later that year, he became Dutch Time Trial champion.^[2]

Van Emden made international headlines when he proposed to his girlfriend during a time-trial stage of the 2014 Giro d'Italia. After she accepted, he finished the stage as 120th out of 156.^[3][4]

In 2015, Van Emden finished second in the ITT of the Tour of California, sitting in the hot seat all day before being beaten by Peter Sagan.^[5] Two months later, van Emden participated in his first Tour de France. He became fifth in the opening time-trial that took place in his home country.^[6] His biggest victory for the time being came when he won the ITT of the 2015 Eneco Tour, subsequently gaining the right to wear the leader's jersey.^[7]

Palmares

2006

1st Stage 4 Tour de Normandie

1st Stage 1 Tour du Loir-et-Cher

1st Prologue & Stage 1 Grand Prix Willem Tell

1st Overall Roserittet DNV GP

1st Stage 1

1st Overall Triptyque des Barrages (U23)

1st Stage 2

2007

1st Prologue (TTT) Tour Alsace

1st Münsterland Giro

2008

1st Stage 7 Tour de Normandie

1st Stage 1 Rhône-Alpes Isère Tour

1st Stage 5 Vuelta Ciclista a León

2010

2nd Overall Delta Tour Zeeland

1st Youth classification

1st Prologue

1st Prologue Ster ZLM Toer

1st Dutch National Time Trial Championships

2011

1st Stadsprijs Geraardsbergen

3th Overall Delta Tour Zeeland

1st Prologue

5th Overall Eneco Tour

2013

1st Münsterland Giro

4th Overall Tour of Hainan

2014

3rd Dutch National Time Trial Championships

10th Paris–Tours

2015

1st Stage 4 (ITT) Eneco Tour

3rd Dutch National Time Trial Championships

6th Overall, Tour du Poitou-Charentes

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

Grand Tour	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015
Giro	166	116	159	—	—	107	—
Tour	—	—	—	—	—	—	121
Vuelta	—	—	—	—	—	—

References

1. "Jos Van Emden". De Wielersite (in Dutch). Retrieved 13 August 2015.
2. "Jos van Emden Nederlands Kampioen tijdrijden". De Volkskrant (in Dutch) (De Persgroep Nederland). 24 June 2010. Retrieved 13 August 2015.
3. "Jos van Emden stops in Giro d’Italia time trial to propose to his girlfriend". The Guardian. Guardian Media Group. 30 May 2014. Retrieved 5 June 2014.
4. "Van Emden haalt internationale pers". NOS (in Dutch). Nederlandse Omroep Stichting. 30 May 2014. Retrieved 5 June 2014.
5. "Van Emden enorm teleurgesteld na mislopen zege in Californië". NU.nl (in Dutch) (Sanoma Media Netherlands Group). 16 May 2015. Retrieved 13 August 2015.
6. Horssels, Maxim (4 July 2015). "Jos van Emden: 'Ben echt ontzettend blij'". WielerFlits.nl (in Dutch). Retrieved 13 August 2015.
7. "Tijdritzege en leiderstrui Van Emden in Eneco Tour". NOS (in Dutch) (Nederlandse Omroep Stichting). 13 August 2015. Retrieved 13 August 2015.

External links

• Official website (Dutch)
• Jos Van Emden profile on Procyclingstats.com