- Born
- Nickname
- The Aerobullet
- Height5′ 7¼″ (1.71 m)
- Remco Evenepoel is a Belgian professional road cyclist. Compared to Eddy Merckx at age 19, Remco is regarded as one of the most talented cyclists of his generation, along with Tadej Pogacar. In 2019, Evenepoel won his first one day race with Clasica San Sebastian. He has won this race two more times since. He has won Liège-Bastogne-Liège twice. In 2019, he became UCI European Time Trial Champion. He is an allrounder of road cycling. In 2022, he won the UCI World Road Championships in Wollongong, Australia. A year later, this was followed by the UCI World Time Trial Championships in Stirling, Scotland, making him the second rider in history to win both championships along with Abraham Olano but Evenepoel was the first to do so in under 12 months.
- IMDb mini biography by: Arthur Cnudde
- SpouseOumaïma Rayane(October 7, 2022 - present)
- ChildrenNo Children
- ParentsPatrick EvenepoelAgna Van Eeckhout
- Down-to-earth and self-assured person.
- Charismatic personality.
- As a cyclist, he has devastating acceleration and pace.
- Westerly Flemish Brabant accent.
- Remco excels in cycling on a world level since the under-18 age category. He has skipped the under-22 age category. He played association football until he was 16, playing at RSC Anderlecht and KV Mechelen as a defender. He would have been rejected at the former, though he was a captain of his teams and physically among the best youth players. He played for the Belgian under-17 youth team.
- Son of former professional cyclist Patrick Evenepoel (born 1968). His father was a professional rider between 1991 and 1994 (four seasons). His father became his manager.
- Fluent speaker of Dutch, French and English.
- His wife Oumaïma Rayane is of Moroccan descent. Their wedding party took place in Moroccan style and tradition.
- Remco was raised bilingually (Dutch and French) because of his time as a footballer at Brussels based association football club RSC Anderlecht. Young Belgian football players are trained bilingually there. The town of Anderlecht is a sub-municipality of Belgium's capital Brussels. Brussels is a bilingual region.
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