Bart Aernouts is a professional cyclist

Cycling

Cycling, also called bicycling or biking, is the use of bicycles for transport, recreation, or for sport. Persons engaged in cycling are cyclists or bicyclists...

 who competes mainly in cyclo-cross

Cyclo-cross

Cyclo-cross is a form of bicycle racing. Races typically take place in the autumn and winter , and consists of many laps of a short course featuring pavement, wooded trails, grass, steep hills and...

 races. Aernouts often finishes only a few places behind big names such as Sven Nys

Sven Nys

Sven Nys is a professional cyclist who has won his most important victories in cyclo-cross races.Nys began racing BMX at the age of 8...

, Niels Albert

Niels Albert

Niels Albert is a professional cyclo-cross racing cyclist who currently resides in Tremelo.- Career :...

 and Zdeněk Štybar

Zdenek Štybar

Zdeněk Štybar is a Czech professional cyclist who rides for UCI ProTeam . He is the reigning World Cyclo-cross champion.Following consecutive second places in 2008 and 2009 Štybar won the 2010 World Cyclo-cross championships in his home nation...

, but occasionally manages top results in high calibre races of the Gazet van Antwerpen Trophy or the Superprestige.

He achieved his major wins in Sint-Michielsgestel

Sint-Michielsgestel

Sint-Michielsgestel is a municipality and a town in the southern part of the Netherlands.Sint-Michielsgestel is located directly south of 's-Hertogenbosch, the capital of North Brabant province. Its name refers to archangel St...

, where he won both the Junior UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships

UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships

The UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships sponsored by the Union Cycliste Internationale consists of both a men's and women's cyclo-cross world championship:* Men - UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships – Men's elite race...

 in 2000 and more recently the Cyclo-cross Sint-Michielsgestel in 2010.