Thalita de Jong
Dutch cyclist
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Thalita de Jong (born 6 November 1993) is a Dutch racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam Human Powered Health.[3] In 2016, de Jong won the elite women's title at the Dutch National Cyclo-cross Championships, the UEC European Cyclo-cross Championships and the UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships.[4]
Bergen op Zoom, Netherlands
- Road
- Cyclo-cross
De Jong, in her world champion skin-suit riding during a 2016 cyclo-cross race at Cauberg | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Born | 6 November 1993 Bergen op Zoom, Netherlands | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Current team | JEGG–DJR Academy | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| 2019 | Multum Accountants Ladies | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 2019 | Chevalmeire Cycling Team | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 2022 | JEGG–DJR Academy | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| 2012–2016 | Rabobank-Liv Woman Cycling Team | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 2017 | Lares–Waowdeals | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 2018 | Experza–Footlogix | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 2020–2022 | Chevalmeire Cycling Team[1][2] | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 2022–2023 | Liv Racing TeqFind | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 2024 | Lotto–Dstny Ladies | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 2025– | Human Powered Health | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Medal record
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Career
She competed in the 2013 UCI women's team time trial in Florence.[5] She won gold at the 2016 UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships in Zolder, Belgium.[6]
After five years with Rabobank-Liv Woman Cycling Team, in August 2016 Lares–Waowdeals announced that de Jong would join them for the 2017 season, leading the team on the road and in cyclo-cross.[7] De Jong suffered a 2017 cyclocross season ending injury, falling at the Grand Prix Adrie van der Poel. Medical issues plagued her 2017 road season, by the end of the year, de Jong signed with the former Sport Vlaanderen–Guill D'or as it became Experza–Footlogix in 2018.[8][9] During the 2019 season, she joined the Chevalmeire Cycling Team.[10] She remained with the team until early in the 2022 season. Following several top-five finishes in the spring with JEGG–DJR Academy, de Jong joined Liv Racing Xstra from June, a team she had previously turned professional with.[11]
Personal life
She is the older sister of fellow professional cyclist, Demi de Jong.
Major results
Cyclo-cross
- 2015–2016
- 1st
UCI World Championships - 1st
National Championships - Bpost Bank Trophy
- 1st Sint-Niklaas
- 2nd Essen
- 1st Bredene
- 1st Ardooie
- 1st Pétange
- 1st Contern
- UCI World Cup
- 2nd Hoogerheide
- 2016–2017
- 1st
UEC European Championships - UCI World Cup
- 1st Cauberg
- Superprestige
- Brico Cross
- 1st Bredene
- 1st Zonnebeke
- 1st Contern
- 2nd Overall DVV Trophy
- 2017–2018
- 1st Zonnebeke
- 1st Leudelange
- 2nd Leuven
- 2019–2020
- 2nd Contern
Road
- 2011
- National Junior Championships
- 1st Time trial
- 3rd Road race
- 1st
- 8th Overall Tour de Bretagne
- 2012
- 1st Time trial, Zuid-West-Nederland District Championships
- 3rd Open de Suède Vårgårda TTT
- 4th Time trial, UEC European Under-23 Championships
- 2013
- 2nd
Team time trial, UCI World Championships - 2nd Overall Tour de Bretagne
- 1st Young rider classification
- 2nd Open de Suède Vårgårda TTT
- UEC European Under-23 Championships
- 6th Time trial
- 9th Road race
- 10th GP Leende
- 2014
- 2nd Open de Suède Vårgårda TTT
- 3rd Overall Belgium Tour
- 1st
Sprints classification - 1st
Young rider classification - 1st Stage 2 (TTT)
- 1st
- UEC European Under-23 Championships
- 4th Time trial
- 4th Road race
- 4th Dwars door de Westhoek
- 4th Ronde van Gelderland
- 4th Omloop van het Hageland
- 6th Overall Festival Luxembourgeois Elsy Jacobs
- 10th Overall Tour of Norway
- 2015
- 1st Erondegemse Pijl
- 1st Crescent World Cup Vårgårda TTT
- 2nd Grote Prijs De Wielkeszuigers
- 3rd
Team time trial, UCI World Championships - UEC European Under-23 Championships
- 3rd
Time trial - 4th Road race
- 3rd
- 3rd GP Gippingen
- 4th Overall Holland Tour
- 1st
Young rider classficiation - 1st Stage 6
- 1st
- 10th Holland Hills Classic
- 2016
- 1st Stage 9 Giro Rosa
- 2nd Overall Tour of Norway
- 1st Young rider classficiation
- 1st
- 3rd Erondegemse Pijl
- 6th Overall Giro del Trentino
- 1st Points classification
- 1st Stages 2a (TTT) & 2b
- 2017
- 5th Dwars door Vlaanderen
- 2021
- 1st Grote Prijs Beerens
- 5th Overall Festival Elsy Jacobs
- 1st
Mountains classification
- 1st
- 7th Overall Tour International de l'Ardèche
- 2022
- 1st Ronde de Mouscron
- 3rd Volta Limburg Classic
- 4th Drentse Acht van Westerveld
- 5th Leiedal Koerse
- 2024
- 1st Overall Tour Cycliste Féminin International de l'Ardèche
- 1st Points classification
- 1st Mountains classification
- 1st Stages 1 & 2
- 1st
- 2nd Overall Tour de la Semois
- 1st Mountains classification
- 1st Stage 2
- 1st
- 2nd Dwars door het Hageland
- 2nd Altez GP Oetingen
- 3rd Durango-Durango Emakumeen Saria
- 3rd Overall Baloise Ladies Tour
- 5th Overall Bretagne Ladies Tour
- 1st Points classification
- 1st
Mountains classification
- 1st
- 5th Omloop Het Nieuwsblad
- 7th Overall Itzulia Women
- 8th Le Samyn
- 8th Tour de Normandie
- 1st Points classification
- 1st
- 8th Gent–Wevelgem
- 9th Overall Setmana Ciclista Valenciana
- 10th Overall Tour de France
- 2025
- 1st Trofeo Binissalem-Andratx
- 4th Trofeo Palma Femina
- 10th Overall Setmana Ciclista Valenciana
- 2026
- 10th Dwars door Vlaanderen
