Full name Jelle Wallays Name Jelle Wallays Rider type Classics specialist | Role Rider Discipline Road | |
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2010 Topsport Vlaanderen-Mercator (stagiaire) 2011– Topsport Vlaanderen-Baloise Current team Topsport Vlaanderen-Baloise | ||
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Jelle Wallays (born 11 May 1989) is a Belgian road cyclist, currently riding for UCI WorldTeam Lotto–Soudal.
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Career
Jelle Wallays is the brother and nephew of racing cyclists Jens Wallays and Luc Wallays. He was coached by his uncle in his early racing career and competed in his first race at the age of 14. The start of his first year as a professional in 2011 was marred by a knee injury, however a few weeks after returning to competition he took the best result of his season at the Belgian National Road Race Championships, where he finished third behind Philippe Gilbert and Gianni Meersman.
A winner of the under-23 Paris Tours in 2010, Wallays won the 2014 Paris Tours having been in a breakaway that went in the opening kilometres of the 237.5 km (147.6 mi) race, making him the only rider to win the under-23 and elite men's editions of Paris-Tours.
In 2015, he won the Dwars door Vlaanderen by attacking a group of three other riders a kilometer away from the finish line.
Wallays joined Lotto–Soudal for the 2016 season, with a focus on working as part of the team's sprint train. He was named in the startlist for the 2016 Vuelta a España.
