Lars Boom

Lars Boom

Lars Boom at the 2015 Tour de France
Personal information
Full name	Lars Anthonius Johannes Boom
Born	(1985-12-30) 30 December 1985 (age 38) Vlijmen, the Netherlands
Height	1.91 m (6 ft 3 in)
Weight	75 kg (165 lb)
Team information
Current team	Privateer
Discipline	Cyclo-cross Road (retired) Mountain biking
Role	Rider
Rider type	Cyclo-cross Time-trialist/Classics specialist (road) Marathon (MTB)
Amateur teams
2002–2003	Rabobank Junior
2020–	Privateer
Professional teams
2004–2008	Rabobank GS3
2009–2014	Rabobank[1]
2015–2016	Astana
2017–2018	LottoNL–Jumbo
2019	Roompot–Charles[2]
Major wins
Cyclo-cross World Championships (2008) National Championships (2007–2012) Road Grand Tours Tour de France 1 individual stage (2014) Vuelta a España 1 individual stage (2009) Stage races Tour of Britain (2011, 2017) Eneco Tour (2012) Tour of Belgium (2009) Ster ZLM Toer (2013) Single-day races and Classics National Road Race Championships (2008) National Time Trial Championships (2008)
Medal record Representing the  Netherlands Men's road bicycle racing World Championships 2007 Stuttgart Under-23 time trial Men's cyclo-cross World Championships 2003 Monopoli Junior 2007 Hooglede Under-23 2008 Treviso Elite 2006 Zeddam Under-23

Lars Anthonius Johannes Boom (born 30 December 1985) is a professional cyclo-cross and mountain bike racing cyclist from the Netherlands. He has also competed professionally in road racing, having raced between 2004 and 2019.^[3]

Born in Vlijmen, Netherlands, Boom has also previously competed for Rabobank and their junior and continental teams over two spells with the team, as well as Astana. Boom won the cyclo-cross world championships in 2008. He has also been the Dutch national cyclo-cross champion in his discipline from 2001 to 2012 – junior cyclo-cross champion from 2002 to 2003, under-23 champion from 2004 to 2006, and the elite champion from 2007 to 2012.