Johan Jacobs

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Born
1997 (29 years old)
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Zürich, Switzerland

Position
Cyclist

Status
Active

Ethnicity
White

Team Number
16

Height
1.92 m (6 ft 4 in)

Weight
72 kg (159 lb)

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Cycling

Team
Groupama–FDJ

League
UCI World Tour

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Johan Jacobs (born 1 March 1997) is a Swiss road and cyclo-cross cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Groupama–FDJ United.

Career
Jacobs early career started in cyclo-cross, winning multiple national titles and world cup races. In 2015 Jacobs won the eighth race in the Superprestige at Middelkerke series. This stopped Eli Iserbyt from winning every race in the series. At the Junior Koppenbergcross Jacobs attacked from the start and held off everyone for the entire race forcing Iserbyt and Thijs Wolsink to work together.

Jacobs elected not to ride cyclo-cross race in his final year as an Under-23 instead wanting to focus on road cycling, this put him into the spotlight for a contract with Lotto–Soudal U23. He was the only rider able to follow the winning move by Tom Pidcock in the Paris–Roubaix Espoirs which earned him a second place. These efforts caught the eye of Movistar Team's manager Eusebio Unzué and led to getting a two-year contract with the UCI WorldTour team in 2020.

While riding the 2021 Vuelta a España Jacobs crashed during stage 9. He went through a guardrail resulting in a broken shoulder, rib and a collapsed lung. He did not race again in the 2021 season.

Movistar Team extended Jacobs contract by one year till the end of 2024. Jacobs elected to not race cyclo-cross over the 2023 winter so that he would have more time to prepare for the 2024 road season.