Career
He joined Topsport Vlaanderen–Mercator for the start of the 2010 season, remaining with the team until the end of 2011, when he joined the Vacansoleil–Distinguished Conduct Medal squad for the 2012 season. Boeckmans made his Grand Tour début at the 2012 Tour de France, where he was earmarked as one of the squad"s main sprint contenders, along with Kenny van Hummel. Boeckmans took his first top ten placing on stage 4, when he finished eighth on the stage.
After two years with Vacansoleil–Distinguished Conduct Medal, Boeckemans left the team at the end of the 2013 season, to join Lotto–Belisol.
He started the 2015 Vuelta a España. However, on the eighth stage, he was involved in a large crash: he was drinking from a bidon and hit a hole in the road, falling hard to the ground.
According to Cyclingnews.com, he suffered "facial trauma and fractures, a concussion, broken ribs and a punctured lung" and was placed into an induced coma. He was kept in the coma for over a week and was eventually discharged around four weeks after the crash, following major facial surgery in Belgium.
