Victor Campenaerts is set to fine-tune and double down on his team worker status in 2026 at Visma-Lease a Bike, with the Belgian racer further strengthening his resolve to limit his own personal goals in order to produce even better performances for leader Jonas Vingegaard.
Campenaerts has triumphs in his own right, one standout victory being when he took a memorable transition stage win at the Tour de France in 2024, but more for what happened afterwards than the win itself.
He first dedicated the biggest triumph of his career to his family, demanding a phone from a journalist on the line to do so – “You can’t imagine how much they supported me,” he said.
As he explained in a massive outpouring of emotion afterwards, his win was only taken after months of personal challenges, an uncertain future with Lotto, his team at the time, and a massive altitude training camp at Sierra Nevada, during which time in Spain his son was also born.
However, Campenaerts then switched to a much more team-focussed role in 2025 with Visma-Lease a Bike. He told Cyclingnews last year: “I also want to tell my son ‘I was on the Champs Elysées with Jonas in the yellow jersey’.”
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