Thalita de Jong

Thalita de Jong
	De Jong, in her world champion skin-suit riding during a 2016 cyclo-cross race at Cauberg
Personal information
Born	6 November 1993; Bergen op Zoom, Netherlands
Team information
Current team	JEGG–DJR Academy
Disciplines	Road; Cyclo-cross;
Role	Rider
Amateur teams
2019	Multum Accountants Ladies
2019	Chevalmeire Cycling Team
2022	JEGG–DJR Academy
Professional teams
2012–2016	Stichting Rabo Women Cycling Team
2017	Lares–Waowdeals
2018	Experza–Footlogix
2020–2022	Chevalmeire Cycling Team
Major wins
	Cyclo-cross World Championships (2016) European Championships (2016) National Championships (2016)
Medal record
Representing Netherlands
Women's cyclo-cross
World Championships
European Championships

Thalita de Jong (born 6 November 1993) is a Dutch racing cyclist, who currently rides for Dutch amateur team JEGG–DJR Academy. In 2016, de Jong won the elite women's title at the Dutch National Cyclo-cross Championships, the UEC European Cyclo-cross Championships and the UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships.

Career

She competed in the 2013 UCI women's team time trial in Florence. She won gold at the 2016 UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships in Zolder, Belgium.

After five years with Rabo–Liv, in August 2016 Lares–Waowdeals announced that de Jong would join them for the 2017 season, leading the team on the road and in cyclo-cross. De Jong suffered a 2017 cyclocross season ending injury, falling at the Grand Prix Adrie van der Poel. Medical issues plagued her 2017 road season, by the end of the year, de Jong signed with the former Sport Vlaanderen–Guill D'or as it became Experza–Footlogix in 2018. During the 2019 season, she joined the Chevalmeire Cycling Team. She remained with the team until early in the 2022 season. Following several top-five finishes in the spring with JEGG–DJR Academy, de Jong will join Liv Racing–Xstra from June, a team she had previously turned professional with.