Antoine Demoitié Explained
Antoine Demoitié |
Fullname: | Antoine Demoitié |
Birth Date: | 16 October 1990 |
Birth Place: | Liège, Wallonia, Belgium |
Death Place: | Lille, Hauts-de-France, France |
Discipline: | Road |
Role: | Rider |
Proyears1: | 2010 |
Proteam1: | (stagiaire) |
Proyears2: | 2011 |
Proyears3: | 2012 |
Proyears4: | 2013–2015 |
Proyears5: | 2016 |
Proteam5: | [1] |
Antoine Demoitié (16 October 1990 – 27 March 2016) was a Belgian cyclist, who rode professionally between 2011 and his death in 2016.[2]
Death
At the age of 25, Demoitié crashed on 27 March 2016 when he went down in a pile-up of several cyclists and was then hit by a motorcycle in the Gent–Wevelgem road race. He died that evening in the hospital.[3]
Major results
- 2012
1st Stage 2b Le Triptyque des Monts et Châteaux
3rd Overall Triptyque Ardennais
1st Stage 3
3rd Gooikse Pijl
5th De Vlaamse Pijl
6th La Côte Picarde
7th Overall Carpathian Couriers Race
1st Stages 2 & 3
9th Memorial Van Coningsloo
- 2013
2nd Grote Prijs Stad Geel
3rd Ronde Pévéloise
4th Ronde van Noord-Holland
9th Zuid Oost Drenthe Classic I
10th Polynormande
10th Druivenkoers Overijse
- 2014
1st Tour du Finistère
2nd Omloop van het Waasland
4th Handzame Classic
6th Grand Prix Pino Cerami
7th Grote Prijs Jef Scherens
7th Paris–Bourges
- 2015
1st Wanzele Koerse
2nd Grote Prijs Stad Zottegem
2nd Handzame Classic
3rd Grand Prix d'Ouverture La Marseillaise
4th Cholet-Pays de Loire
7th Halle–Ingooigem
7th Grand Prix Pino Cerami
9th Omloop van het Waasland
10th Overall Circuit des Ardennes
1st Stage 4
- 2016
2nd Dorpenomloop RucphenSee also
Notes and References
- Web site: Stenuit and Demoitié join Wanty–Groupe Gobert . 23 September 2015 . . 29 September 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160304120539/http://www.cube.eu/uk/cubeworld/news/news-detail/article/stenuit-and-demoitie-join-wanty-groupe-gobert/ . 4 March 2016 . dead .
- Web site: Antoine Demoitié . ProCyclingStats . 1 September 2015.
- Web site: Belgian rider Antoine Demoitié dies in hospital after Ghent-Wevelgem crash. 27 March 2016. Cycling Weekly.