Jonas Van de Steene

Jonas Van de Steene (born 15 February 1987) is a Belgian Para-cyclist who represented Belgium at the 2016, 2020 and 2024 Summer Paralympics.

[1] At the age of 25, Van de Steene suffered a thrombosis during a bike ride that affected his lower extremities and he had to adapt to living with a wheelchair.

In May 2013 he rode a handbike for the first time and a year later Van de Steene started his international career.

[3] Van de Steene's sister, Saartje, is an actress in the Belgian television series Dertigers  [nl] that runs on Flemish channel één.

[4] Since 2014 Van de Steene represented Belgium at multiple UCI Para-cycling Road World Championships with his best result coming in 2023 when he became world champion in the road race H4 narrowly beating French rider Mathieu Bosredon and Austrian Thomas Fruhwirth in a sprint.