Maxim Van Gils

Maxim Van Gils was born on 25 November 1999 in Brasschaat, Belgium. He won La Classique des Alpes Juniors in 2017 and rode for the Lotto–Soudal under-23 team from 2018 to 2020. He turned professional with Lotto–Soudal in 2021, and in 2022 he won the Saudi Tour, taking stage 4 and the overall classification. In 2023 he was second at the Volta Limburg Classic, seventh at the Amstel Gold Race and eighth at La Flèche Wallonne.

In 2024, still with Lotto Dstny, he won Eschborn–Frankfurt in May, his first UCI WorldTour victory, in a group sprint, and he also won the Grand Prix of Aargau Canton and the time trial stage of the Vuelta a Andalucía. He finished third at Strade Bianche and at La Flèche Wallonne, fourth at Liège–Bastogne–Liège and seventh at Milan–San Remo.

He signed a three-year contract with Red Bull–BORA–hansgrohe for 2025. In his first year with the team he won a stage of the Vuelta a Andalucía and a stage of the Tour of Norway, and was third at the Clásica San Sebastián.

His 2026 began with a victory for his team in the Trofeo Ses Salines on 29 January. A crash at the Clásica Jaén on 16 February, in which he did not finish, kept him out of racing until June; the Italian site Tuttobici reported a fractured pelvis. He came back to win stage 6 of the Tour Auvergne–Rhône-Alpes on 12 June from the breakaway, beating Tobias Johannessen on the final climb to Crest-Voland. He then rode the Tour de France, finishing 27th overall. Later results include 21st at the San Sebastián Klasikoa, 12th at the Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec, eighth in the European road race and tenth overall at the Tour of Guangxi, which ended on 18 October. He is 1.74 m tall and weighs 63 kg. ProCyclingStats lists his contract with the team until 2027.