Belgian road bicycle racer
Tom Boonen |
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Full name | Tom Boonen |
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Born | (1980-10-15) 15 October 1980 (age 44) Mol, Belgium |
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Height | 1.92 m (6 ft 3+1⁄2 in) |
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Weight | 82 kg (181 lb; 12 st 13 lb) |
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Current team | Retired |
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Discipline | Road |
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Role | Rider |
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Rider type | Classics specialist Sprinter |
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2002 | U.S. Postal Service |
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2003–2017 | Quick-Step–Davitamon |
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Grand Tours
- Tour de France
- Points classification (2007)
- 6 individual stages (2004, 2005, 2007)
- Vuelta a España
- 2 individual stages (2008)
Stage races
- Tour of Belgium (2005)
- Tour de Picardie (2004)
- Tour of Qatar (2006, 2008, 2009, 2012)
- World Ports Classic (2012)
One-day races and Classics
- World Road Race Championships (2005)
- National Road Race Championships (2009, 2012)
- Tour of Flanders (2005, 2006, 2012)
- Paris–Roubaix (2005, 2008, 2009, 2012)
- E3 Harelbeke (2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2012)
- Gent–Wevelgem (2004, 2011, 2012)
- Scheldeprijs (2004, 2006)
- Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne (2007, 2009, 2014)
- Dwars door Vlaanderen (2007)
- Paris–Brussels (2012, 2016)
- Münsterland Giro (2015)
- London–Surrey Classic (2016)
Other
- Vélo d'Or (2005)
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Tom Boonen (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈtɔm ˈboːnə(n)]; born 15 October 1980) is a Belgian former road bicycle racer,[1] who competed as a professional between 2002 and 2017 for the U.S. Postal Service and Quick-Step Floors teams and a professional racing driver who currently competes in Belcar, having previously competed in the NASCAR Whelen Euro Series. Boonen won the 2005 UCI World Road Race Championships, and was a single-day road specialist with a strong finishing sprint. He won the cycling monuments Paris–Roubaix 4 times and the Tour of Flanders 3 times, among many other prestigious victories, such as prevailing 5 times in the E3 Harelbeke, winning 6 stages of the Tour de France and winning the Overall title of the Tour of Qatar 4 times.[2]