The towering Dutchman is the youngest cog in Red Bull's engine room, signed from Visma's development pipeline in 2025 alongside his identical twin Mick. Second at Omloop Het Nieuwsblad this spring, van Dijke pairs raw classics power with sharp positioning instincts. On flat, exposed and echelon-threatened stages, he's the bodyguard Evenepoel and Lipowitz will hide behind.
Palmarès
- Omloop Het Nieuwsblad 2nd (2026)
- Dutch national U23 road race champion (2021)
- Tour de l'Avenir prologue winner (2022)
- Sibiu Cycling Tour prologue winner (2022)
Cut-out factHis identical twin brother Mick rides for the same team — the Zeeland twins started out as mountain bikers and only switched to the road in 2020.
The squad
Riding the 2026 Tour with Remco Evenepoel, Florian Lipowitz, Mattia Cattaneo, Maxim Van Gils, Nico Denz, Jai Hindley, Jan Tratnik — see the full Red Bull–BORA–hansgrohe team page.
Portrait: AI paper-collage render (gpt-image-2) after a reference photograph — source: c8.alamy.com, author: see source, license: see source.
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