Jos van Emden

Born in Schiedam, 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 race at the 2006 UCI Road World Championships. The next year, he achieved his first professional victory when he won the Münsterland Giro.[4]

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 was the winner of the Dutch National Time Trial Championships.[5]

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 120th out of 156 starters.[6][7]

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.[8] 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.[9] His biggest victory for the time being came when he won the time trial stage of the Eneco Tour, subsequently gaining the right to wear the leader's jersey.[10]

He was named in the startlist for the 2016 Vuelta a España.[11]

In 2019 Van Emden won the Dutch National Time Trial Championships for the second time.[12]

Source: [13]

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

Grand Tour	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022
Giro d'Italia	166	116	159	—	—	107	—	120	117	99	104	DNF	DNF	89
Tour de France	—	—	—	—	—	—	121	—	DNF	—	—	—	—	—
/ Vuelta a España	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	DNF	—	—	—	—	—	—

Major championship results

Event		2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023
World Championships	Time trial	—	—	36	—	—	—	—	—	8	—	19	21	21	12	—
	Mixed team relay	Event did not exist											1	NH	2	—
	Road race	—	—	DNF	—	—	—	—	DNF	DNF	DNF	—	DNF	—	—	—
	Team time trial	Event did not exist				—	12	—	6	5	7	13	Event did not exist
European Championships	Time trial	Event did not exist								—	5	8	8	—	11	9
	Mixed team relay	Event did not exist											—	—	3	NH
National Championships	Time trial	8	7	1	9	—	18	3	3	2	4	5	1	NH	—	4	1
	Road race	25	—	49	43	—	DNF	DNF	50	40	50	18	59	5	—	13

Legend

—	Did not compete
DNF	Did not finish
NH	Not held
IP	In progress

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Jos van Emden.

• Official website at the Wayback Machine (archived 3 July 2020) (in Dutch)
• Jos van Emden at UCI
• Jos van Emden at Cycling Archives
• Jos van Emden at ProCyclingStats
• Jos van Emden at CQ Ranking
• Jos van Emden at CycleBase