Twan Castelijns

Twan Castelijns (born 23 January 1989 in Hapert, North Brabant, Netherlands) is a Dutch former cyclist, who rode professionally between 2014 and 2017 for the Koga Cycling Team, Baby-Dump Cyclingteam and LottoNL–Jumbo squads.[1] During his career, he contested two Grand Tours; the 2016 Giro d'Italia,[2] and the 2017 Giro d'Italia.

Twan Castelijns
Castelijns in 2016.
Personal information
Full nameTwan Castelijns
Born (1989-01-23) 23 January 1989
Hapert, North Brabant, Netherlands
Height1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Weight70 kg (154 lb)
Team information
Current teamRetired
DisciplineRoad
RoleRider
Amateur teams
2011TWC Snelle Het Wiel
2012–2013Baby-Dump–Lemmerns–Wilvo
2015LottoNL–Jumbo (stagiaire)
Professional teams
2014Koga Cycling Team
2015Baby-Dump Cyclingteam
2016–2017LottoNL–Jumbo

Major results

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

Grand Tour 2016 2017
A pink jersey Giro d'Italia 114 130
A yellow jersey Tour de France
A red jersey Vuelta a España
Legend
Did not compete
DNF Did not finish

References

  1. "Un omaggio a chi dice addio" [A tribute to those who say goodbye]. Cicloweb.it (in Italian). Cicloweb. 19 December 2017. Retrieved 4 January 2018. Costretto a smettere nonostante buoni risultati il ventottenne Twan Castelijns a cui nessuno, a cominciare dal suo Team LottoNL-Jumbo, ha voluto dare fiducia. [Forced to stop in spite of good results, the twenty-eight year old Twan Castelijns that no one, beginning with his LottoNL-Jumbo team, wanted to give confidence to.]
  2. "99th Giro d'Italia Startlist". Pro Cycling Stats. Retrieved 6 May 2016.
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