JEROEN VAN ECK

MTB

Name: Jeroen van Eck
Sports: Mountainbike, E-MTB, XCO and XCE
Year of birth: 1993
Home (or grown up in): Malden (Netherlands)
Education: Industrial engineering & management
Profession(s): MTB Pro Athlete
With the Maloja-Team since: 2022
Maloja is for me … A brand that does things differently
Homepage: www.vaneckracing.nl
Beautiful moments (instead of successes): Finishing the 9-day Crocodile trophy stage race in Australia together with my dad in 2015 and becoming a father myself in 2022


What do you need?

Coffee. And no, I'm not addicted. The process of making a good coffee (and drinking it) is just pleasant

Satisfied I am...

when I gave absolute best regardless the result

A prejudice that applies to you:

How can you be a professional mountainbiker when you live in one of the flattest countries of Europe

A damage that had a benefit/a mistake from which I learned:

My concussion in 2022. I couldn't ride my bike for 3 months and in that period, I realised again how beautiful mountainbiking is and the life I'm living at the moment. Due to pressure and the focus on progress you sometimes loose the joy and fun. Since my concussion I integrate this more in my daily life as an athlete

A tradition I still live by today:

Every place I visit I buy a magnet for my grandma