- As Belgian national road champion, Van Aert appeared with Max Verstappen in an Oracle Red Bull Racing commercial during which all of Verstappen's tyre technicians pretended to change Van Aert's bicycle wheel as if he'd make a pit stop. Verstappen passed Van Aert with his Red Bull F1 car. He bantered: "It's a pity that Max happened to pass me as I had a flat tire [a punctured tire]".
- He is partly Dutch of ancestry (the Netherlands) through his father Henk and uncle Jos van Aert, who is the cousin of his father. Or simplified: the fathers of Henk and Jos were brothers. The spelling of his surname ("van" in "van Aert" is without capital letter "V"), confirms his Dutch origins.
- Uncle Jos van Aert was a professional cyclist between 1988 and 1994. His uncle rode in the same team as Mathieu van der Poel's father Adrie and Remco Evenepoel's father Patrick at the Collstrop cycling team in 1994.
- His mother is Belgian while from father's side Wout is Dutch. His father Henk was also born in Belgium.
- By 2023, he had accumulated a remarkable amount of 20 medals other than the gold medal in either cyclocross championships or road cycling championships (worlds, European and national championships are included) since the 2012 season. He has mostly taken silver (14 times), and mostly falling short to his 'eternal rival' Mathieu van der Poel.
- He launched an internet meme in Belgium by shouting "Ik moet just niks" (along the lines of "I don't have to prove anything") at the camera as he had won the 2023 E3 Saxo Classic spring classic (an important cycling race in Belgium) in late March 2023. Merchandise of the moment (specifically a T-shirt) was sold as a result.
- Van Aert speaks French quite well although he doesn't have the rolling 'R' when he speaks French. That he speaks the language well, became very clear in the Tour de France.
- He has his own clothing line Panache by WVA, which was established in 2018 by Van Aert himself and his wife Sarah De Bie. The clothing line consists of caps, T-shirts, sweaters and hoodies.
- He took science-mathematics in secondary education (high school). He studied further for a year and a half, taking applied computer science at Thomas More University College in Geel, after which he devoted himself entirely to cycling.
- His surname is often pronounced the wrong way by English speaking people (British people in particular) while French people mostly mispronounce his first name. In English, his surname is often pronounced as Van Air't while 'van a:rt' is correct. French people usually (if not always) pronounce his first name as Wut ('wood') instead of Wout.
- Godfather of the charity organization vzw To Walk Again, which is committed to people affected by an accident or who have a congenital physical defect.
- He grew up in Lille, a sub-municipality of Herentals in Flanders, Belgium. Lille (not to be confused with the northern French city of the same name) is a town in the northeast of Flanders, Belgium.
- In 2022, his hometown of Lille (Herentals, Belgium) honored him with a mural. Though it wasn't for long. Already after a few months, cracks started to appear in the drawings. There was moisture in the wall and one had to blast away the works of art. In 2023 a set of new mural designs was announced that the local population gets to vote on. (August 2023).
- His rivalry with Mathieu van der Poel dates back from the 2011-2012 cyclo-cross season. Van Aert was a 'sophomore' junior (aged 17) while Van der Poel was a 'freshman' (aged 16). Their first battle of significance, at the 2012 UCI World Cyclo-cross Championships (the juniors category), was won by Van der Poel in the dune sand of Belgian coastal town Koksijde.
- As a child he took his first bicycle steps on the BMX and 'raced against friends from school in his neighbourhood', his mother Ivonne Boeckx revealed in 2021.
- In 2014-2015, he became UCI Cyclo-cross European Champion in the under-23 age category. This is an achievement that particularly faded from view because of what he later achieved as a cyclo-cross and road cyclist.
- He has been wearing a customized helmet by his employer Team Jumbo-Visma's manufacturer Lazer featuring his sponsor Red Bull (its Belgian branch). He has been doing this for road cycling races since 2022. On 4 February 2018, Van Aert began wearing the customized Red Bull helmet, initially for cyclo-cross only. That was the day of his third world cyclo-cross title in Valkenburg.
- Van Aert and the French five-time overall winner Bernard Hinault are the only cyclists who have won a mountain stage, flat stage (bunch sprint) and time trial stage in one and the same edition of the Tour de France. Hinault was the first to complete this feat, in 1979. Van Aert accomplished this in 2021.
- He gave away a possible important victory to his Jumbo-Visma teammate Christophe Laporte in March 2023. He had already won that race, the Gent-Wevelgem, in 2021. The two of them were in front of the race and they crossed the line together. In 2022, the same happened but the other way around. In the E3 Saxo Classic, Van Aert won ahead of Laporte.
- He left the 2023 Tour de France to be with his heavily pregnant wife Sarah in the maternity ward in Flanders, Belgium. That same day, July 20, 2023 she gave birth to their second son Jerome. He arrived only a couple of hours on time. In the morning, Van Aert had been flown to the hospital in the helicopter of his team boss Frits van Eerd, CEO of supermarket branch Jumbo.
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