51 Facts About Tom Dumoulin

Tom Dumoulin has won nine stages across the three Grand Tours, five medals in three different World Championships and two Olympic silver medals.

At the 2015 Vuelta a Espana, Tom Dumoulin had two stage victories and led the race into its final weekend, before losing four minutes on the penultimate stage and ultimately finished sixth overall.

Tom Dumoulin led the 2016 Giro d'Italia during its opening week and won two stages at the 2016 Tour de France.

In 2018, Tom Dumoulin finished second overall at both the Giro d'Italia and the Tour de France.

Tom Dumoulin missed the first half of the 2021 season after he took an indefinite break from cycling for personal reasons, ultimately making his return to the sport at the Tour de Suisse in June and winning his fourth Dutch National Time Trial Championships later that month.

Tom Dumoulin was born in Maastricht, and grew up in the city near the Maas Boulevard, which used to host the finish of the Amstel Gold Race.

Tom Dumoulin did not enjoy classes and within a year he opted to pursue cycle racing for a year.

Tom Dumoulin was due to ride for Cervelo TestTeam in 2011, however the team disbanded at the end of the 2010 season.

Tom Dumoulin rode for the Rabobank Continental Team in 2011.

Tom Dumoulin turned professional with the Dutch Project 1t4i team in 2012.

Tom Dumoulin made his grand tour debut in 2012, riding the Vuelta a Espana.

Tom Dumoulin started the 2015 season by finishing fourth overall at the Tour Down Under.

Tom Dumoulin took his first success of the season by winning the final individual time trial on the Tour of the Basque Country.

Tom Dumoulin recovered from his injuries to ride the Vuelta a Espana.

On stage 5 there was a split in the peloton, and Chaves lost six seconds to Tom Dumoulin, who took the race lead by 1 second.

Tom Dumoulin eventually took a solo win in the stage, two seconds ahead of Chris Froome and took back the red jersey as Chaves lost significant time.

Froome had originally been dropped, but rode at a steady tempo and came close to winning the stage before Tom Dumoulin outsprinted him in the final hundred metres.

On Stage 17, Tom Dumoulin won the 38.1-kilometre individual time trial.

Tom Dumoulin gained 1 minute and 53 seconds on Aru to take the red jersey by three seconds over Aru, with Rodriguez 1 minute and 15 seconds back in third overall after losing over 3 minutes to Dumoulin on the stage.

Tom Dumoulin doubled his lead over Aru by gaining three seconds through an attack on stage 19's final cobbled climb, however he lost the race to Aru on stage 20, the Vuelta's last mountain stage, where Aru distanced Tom Dumoulin on the third of the stage's four first-category climbs.

Tom Dumoulin lost almost four minutes to Aru and slipped down to sixth place in the general classification.

Tom Dumoulin was named in the start list for the Giro d'Italia, where he won the opening time trial on home soil in Apeldoorn, the Netherlands, to take the maglia rosa.

On stage 8, Tom Dumoulin lost the race lead after finishing 38th and losing 1 minute and 10 seconds to Alejandro Valverde in a hilly stage with portions of strade bianche during the stage.

Tom Dumoulin won stage 9 after attacking from a breakaway on the lower slopes of Arcalis in Andorra, and riding up the climb solo in torrential rain.

Tom Dumoulin won stage 13, a 37.5-kilometre time trial over hilly terrain in windy conditions, by a margin of over a minute to Chris Froome in second place.

Tom Dumoulin then won stage 10, a 39.8-kilometre individual time trial from Foligno to Montefalco, to take the overall race lead by 2 minutes and 23 seconds over Quintana.

Tom Dumoulin won Stage 14, which featured a mountain top finish at Santuario di Oropa to extend his lead over Quintana by a further 14 seconds.

On Stage 16, Dumoulin experienced stomach problems and had to take a comfort break at the foot of the Umbrail Pass; none of the other contenders waited for Dumoulin and he finished more than two minutes down on stage winner Vincenzo Nibali, keeping his race lead by just 31 seconds over Quintana.

Tom Dumoulin defended his lead until the stage 19 mountain finish in Piancavallo, where he crossed the line over a minute behind Quintana, the new race leader.

Quintana would put fifteen more seconds into Tom Dumoulin the following day on stage 20.

Tom Dumoulin received the Honorary Gold Medal of the City of Maastricht.

Tom Dumoulin won the earlier team time trial championships in that event, as part of Team Sunweb.

Tom Dumoulin entered the Giro d'Italia as the defending champion, and was considered one of the favourites for overall victory, along with Chris Froome, who had won the 2017 Tour de France and 2017 Vuelta a Espana and was therefore aiming to hold all Grand Tour titles simultaneously.

Tom Dumoulin won the opening 9.7-kilometre individual time trial in Jerusalem, beating Rohan Dennis to victory by 2 seconds to take the race leader's Maglia Rosa for the third year in a row.

Tom Dumoulin remained second overall behind Dennis until Stage 6, when Simon Yates attacked from the group of favourites 1.5 kilometres from the summit of Mount Etna to take the race lead ahead of Tom Dumoulin in second.

On Stage 17, a 34.2-kilometre individual time trial from Trento to Rovereto, Tom Dumoulin finished third behind Rohan Dennis, and reduced Yates' overall lead to 56 seconds, with Froome lying fourth, another 2 minutes and 56 seconds behind Tom Dumoulin.

Froome eventually took the stage victory by more than three minutes and thereby taking the overall race lead, 40 seconds ahead of Tom Dumoulin, who was attacked by the other riders on the final climb after having set the pace for much of the chase.

Tom Dumoulin attacked Froome several times on Stage 20 but was unable to force a gap, and ultimately finished second overall behind Froome.

Behind him, Geraint Thomas attacked from the group of favourites, including his team mate Chris Froome, 6 kilometres from the finish and caught Tom Dumoulin before attacking again in the final kilometre to distance Tom Dumoulin, who was caught by Froome.

The penultimate stage was a 31-kilometre time trial, Tom Dumoulin won the stage, one second ahead of Froome.

Tom Dumoulin finished safely on Stage 21 to secure second place overall behind Thomas, his second successive second place in Grand Tours.

Tom Dumoulin crashed towards the end of Stage 4 of the Giro d'Italia and eventually finished the stage four minutes after many other favorites had crossed the line.

Tom Dumoulin officially withdrew after only a few kilometers of Stage 5, stating that the pain was too much to continue.

Tom Dumoulin missed the Tour de France as a result of his injuries.

Tom Dumoulin indicated he needed time to better understand his motivations for cycling and its effects on his personal life.

Tom Dumoulin took the silver medal in the individual time trial event, for the second consecutive Olympic Games.

Tom Dumoulin finished his 2021 season early after he was hit by a motorist during training.

Tom Dumoulin went into the 2022 Giro d'Italia with hopes of finding the form he had ridden with in previous years.

On stage 7 however, Tom Dumoulin featured as part of the day's breakaway along with his teammate Koen Bouwman.

Tom Dumoulin had attacked out of the peloton to join the second breakaway attempt of the day, which would stay away to fight for the stage win.

Several weeks later, Tom Dumoulin posted a statement to his Instagram account, announcing that he would retire at the end of the 2022 season.