Tijmen Graat

Tijmen Graat is a Dutch road cyclist who rides for Team Visma | Lease a Bike. He was born on 10 January 2003 in Boxmeer, in the province of North Brabant, and he describes himself as coming from a small village in Brabant. He is a climber who has done his best work in stage races.

He raced for TWC Noord-Limburg in 2019, Cycling Team Limburg in 2020 and Streetjump–Forte Development in 2021. In 2022 he moved from the juniors to the Jumbo-Visma Development Team, now called Team Visma | Lease a Bike Development. In his first year there he won a team time trial stage at the Ronde de l’Isard. In 2023 he won the overall classification of the Istrian Spring Trophy, including stage 2, and the G.P. Palio del Recioto. He was also fifth at the Czech Tour, where he won the young rider classification, and ninth at the Giro Next Gen. In May 2023 he signed with the WorldTour team on a deal that took effect in 2025.

In 2024 Graat finished third overall at the Tour de l’Avenir and won its mountains classification. He was also third at the Circuit des Ardennes and sixth at Liège–Bastogne–Liège Espoirs. As a WorldTour rider in 2025 he was ninth at the Okolo Slovenska and tenth at the Czech Tour.

His 2026 season opened at the Tour of Oman in February and ended at the Tour of Guangxi in October. Speaking to the team in October, he said that only Sepp Kuss and Bruno Armirail had raced more days than he had. His best results were sixth overall at the Tour de Luxembourg in September, where his team-mate Davide Piganzoli won, and tenth overall at La Route d’Occitanie in June, where he was third in the youth classification. He was also 12th at O Gran Camiño and 17th at the UAE Tour. His contract with the team runs to the end of 2027.