Jasper Ockeloen
Dutch cyclist (born 1990)
- Road
- Mountain biking
Jasper Ockeloen (born 10 May 1990 in Dordrecht) is a Dutch cyclist, who rides for Dutch amateur team Sockeloen Cycling Club.[1]
He is the founder of Sockeloen, a company that designs and makes cycling socks, and of the Sockeloen Cycling Club as a means to promote mountain bike marathons and beach racing.[2] Those two disciplines have races where professionals and amateurs can ride together and bond. He himself was introduced to beach racing by his girlfriend Riejanne Markus, a professional cyclist.[3]
In 2021 Ockeloen followed the tyretracks of Laurens ten Dam and participated in Unbound Gravel. He had a flat tyre and a problematic reparation, early in the race. After a lot of overtaking he finished in 10th place.[4] A year later Laurens ten Dam, Thomas Dekker, Ivar Slik and Ockeloen returned for a whole month of gravel races in the US. Ockeloen won Gravel Locos solo and came third in Rule of Three.[5][6][7] Later that year Ockeloen won a bronze medal in the Dutch national championships gravel race.[8] These results moved Canyon to give him a professional contract for 2023.[9]
Major results
Road
- 2008
- 1st
Road race, National Junior Road Championships - 3rd Omloop Mandel-Leie-Schelde
- 9th Overall Giro della Lunigiana
- 2010
- 8th Ronde van Midden-Nederland
- 2014
- 9th Overall Sibiu Cycling Tour
- 9th Arno Wallaard Memorial
- 2015
- 2nd Overall Tour d'Azerbaïdjan
- 2nd Overall Flèche du Sud
- 3rd Overall Tour of Fuzhou
- 7th Overall Tour de Taiwan
- 9th Rutland–Melton CiCLE Classic
Mountain bike
- 2014
- 1st National Beach Race Championships
- 2016
- 1st
UEC European Beach Race Championships - 1st Cross-country marathon, National Championships
- 2017
- 1st UEC European Beach Race Championships
- National Championships
- 2nd Cross-country marathon
- 5th Cross-country
- 2018
- 1st National Beach Race Championships
Gravel
- 2021
- 10th Unbound Gravel
- 2022
- 1st Gravel Locos
- 3rd Rule of three
- 3rd National Championships
- 2023
- 2nd Belgian Waffle Ride - California[10]
- UCI World Gravel Series
- 5th Limburg
- 9th Aachen
- 8th FNLND GRVL
- 10th Unbound Gravel
References
- ^ Rolandus, Dan (2 December 2019). "Sockeloen Cycling Club start in 2020 met elite-team" [Sockeloen Cycling Club starts in 2020 with elite team]. CyclingOnline.nl (in Dutch). Manieu. Retrieved 16 February 2020.
- ^ "Interview Jasper Ockeloen: Ik ga de UCI-koersen en het NK met de profs missen" [Interview with Jasper Ockeloen: "I'm going to miss the UCI races and the national championship with the pros"]. Racefietsblog.nl (in Dutch). Racefietsblog. 22 February 2019. Retrieved 16 February 2020.
- ^ "Het leuke aan strandracen is dat iedereen kan instappen" [The nice thing about beach racing is that everyone can take part]. KNWU.nl (in Dutch). Royal Dutch Cycling Union. Retrieved 16 February 2020.
- ^ "Jasper Ockeloen's Trek Checkpoint for Unbound 2022". Pure Gravel on YouTube. 2022-06-06.
- ^ Anne-Marije Rook (2022-06-17). "'Our American campaign couldn't have gone better': Ivar Slik ecstatic over Dutch gravel racing success. The 'Dutch Mafia' are shaking up the American gravel scene". Cycling Weekly.
- ^ "Inside the Lead Group / 2022 Gravel Locos". Adam Roberge on YouTube. 2022-06-01.
- ^ "Rule of Three, Betonville, USA". My Raceresult. 2022-05-21.
- ^ "Coen Vermeltfoort klopt Lars Loohuis en grijpt goud op NK gravel". Wielerflits (in Dutch). 2022-10-22.
- ^ Mark Hayhurst (2023-01-10). "Jasper Ockeloen signs with Canyon". Cycling Insights.
- ^ Jacky Tyson (2023-04-17). "Russell Finsterwald and Heather Jackson win at Belgian Waffle Ride California". CyclingNews.
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Jasper Ockeloen.
- Jasper Ockeloen at UCI
- Jasper Ockeloen at Cycling Archives
- Jasper Ockeloen at ProCyclingStats
- Jasper Ockeloen at Cycling Quotient
- Jasper Ockeloen at MTB Data
- Jasper Ockeloen profile at the Royal Dutch Cycling Union website
