Greg Van Avermaet

Greg Van Avermaet is a retired Belgian professional cyclist, regarded as one of the most versatile riders of his era. A specialist of the one-day classics, he also won stages and overall classifications in stage races on hilly terrain. He took the men's individual road race at the 2016 Summer Olympics and won Paris-Roubaix, Gent-Wevelgem and E3 Harelbeke in 2017. At the Tour de France he won two individual stages and wore the yellow jersey for eleven days across the 2016 and 2018 editions. He also won the points classification at the Vuelta a España and the 2017 UCI World Tour. He joined AG2R Citroën in 2021 and retired in 2023.