Victor Campenaerts (born 28 October 1991) is a Belgian professional road and time trial cyclist who rides for the UCI WorldTeam Visma-Lease a Bike. He rode the 2014 UCI Road World Championships and joined the UCI World Tour with LottoNL-Jumbo in 2016, later riding for Lotto-Soudal, Team Qhubeka NextHash and Lotto-Dstny. On 16 April 2019 at the Aguascalientes Bicentenary Velodrome in Mexico he broke the UCI hour record with 55.089 kilometres, beating the mark Bradley Wiggins set in 2015 by 563 metres and becoming the fourth Belgian to hold the record after Oscar Van den Eynde, Ferdinand Bracke and Eddy Merckx. At the 2023 Tour de France he was named the race super-combative rider after making the breakaway five times, and in 2024 he won stage 18 of the Tour. In 2025 he returned to Visma-Lease a Bike on a three-year contract.
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The Belgian set a distance of 55.089km in his hour
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Victor Campenaerts (born 28 October 1991)
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at which he won Stage 18
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