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2006 Dwars Door Vlaanderen
The 2006 Dwars door Vlaanderen was the 61st edition of the Dwars door Vlaanderen cycle race and was held on 22 March 2006. The race started in Kortrijk and finished in Waregem. The race was won by Frederik Veuchelen. The race was characterized by Tom Boonen who was training himself for the big (Flemish) monuments to come (RVV, E3, P-R, ...); according to many this was one of his best performances in a single-day race ever, even thought he did not win. When asked afterwards why he was showing off his magnificent shape he replied: "T'is Lente Schat" pring has begun two weeks later he won RVV in his rainbow jersey. General classification References 2006 File:2006 Events Collage V1.png, From top left, clockwise: The 2006 Winter Olympics open in Turin; Twitter is founded and launched by Jack Dorsey; The Nintendo Wii is released; Montenegro 2006 Montenegrin independence referendum, votes to declare ... 2006 in road cycling 2006 in Belgian sport March 2006 sports events i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dwars Door Vlaanderen
Dwars door Vlaanderen ''( en, Across Flanders)'' is a semi-classic road bicycle race in Belgium, held annually since 1945. The race starts in Roeselare and finishes in Waregem, both in West Flanders. Since 2017 the event is included in the UCI World Tour. Held in late March, the event is part of the ''Flemish Cycling Week'', which also includes E3 Harelbeke, Gent–Wevelgem and the Tour of Flanders. Traditionally Dwars door Vlaanderen was held four days after Milan–San Remo and a week and a half before the Tour of Flanders. As from 2018 the race moved up one week on the international calendar and is now contested on the Wednesday before the Tour of Flanders, Flanders' foremost cycling classic, held on Sunday. Since 2012, a women's edition of Dwars door Vlaanderen is held on the same day as the men's race, starting and finishing on the same location, of approximately 130 kilometres distance. Both events are organized by Flanders Classics. In addition the Grand Prix de Waregem w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Boonen
Tom Boonen (; born 15 October 1980) is a Belgian former road bicycle racer, who competed as a professional between 2002 and 2017 for the and 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. Career Early years At the start of 2002 Boonen rode for , finishing third in Paris–Roubaix after an early breakaway. Fellow Belgian Johan Museeuw had escaped to a solo victory. Team captain George Hincapie crashed in a slippery section of the course leaving Boonen to ride for himself. Boonen's performance led Mus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2006 In Road Cycling
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Aart Vierhouten
Aart Vierhouten (born 19 March 1970 in Ermelo, Gelderland) is a Dutch former professional racing cyclist, who last rode for . He competed in the men's individual road race at the 1996 Summer Olympics. Major results ;1993 : 1st, Overall, Tour de Liège : 1st, Drielandenomloop : 1st, Internatie Reningelst : 1st, Stage 2, Tour du Hainaut (amateurs) ;1994 : 1st, Stages 1 & 9, Tour de Wallonie ;1996 : 1st, Rund um Rhede : 1st, Stage 7, Teleflex Tour ;1997 : 1st, Stage 2, Rheinland-Pfalz Rundfahrt : 8th, Paris–Tours : 15th, World Road Race Championship ;1998 : 1st, Aalsmeer ;1999 : 10th, Paris–Tours ;2000 : 1st, Groningen - Münster ;2003 : 3rd, National Derny Championship ;2004 : 1st, Profronde van Maastricht : 3rd, Stage 20, Giro d'Italia ;2006 : 1st, Stage 1, Ster Elektrotoer : 1st, Profronde van Fryslan : 3rd, E3 Prijs Vlaanderen :3rd, Madison, 2006 Dutch National Track Championships (together with Kenny van Hummel) ;2007 : 1st, Zandvoort ;2008 : 1st, Ronde van Zuid-Frie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sven Renders
Sven Renders (born 12 August 1981 in Wilrijk) is a Belgian professional road bicycle racer who rides for Willems Verandas Willems is a patronymic surname of Dutch origin, equivalent to Williams. In 2008, it was the 6th most common surname in Belgium (18,604 peopleand in 2007 it was the 39th most common surname in the Netherlands (17,042 people People with this surnam .... External links * Belgian male cyclists Living people 1981 births People from Wilrijk Cyclists from Antwerp {{Belgium-cycling-bio-1980s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kurt Asle Arvesen
Kurt Asle Arvesen (born 9 February 1975) is a Norwegian former professional road bicycle racer, who competed as a professional between 1998 and 2011. Arvesen is from Eresfjord, Nesset. He won the Norwegian National Road Race Championships five times, as well as stages in each of the three Grand Tours. After retiring as a rider, Arvesen became a coach with . He currently works as a directeur sportif for UCI ProTeam . Career After winning the gold medal at the 1997 Under-23 World Championship as an amateur, Arvesen turned pro with Italian team Asics in 1998, where later Team CSC teammate Ivan Basso rode as a stagiare. The two riders moved on to Davide Boifava's team, Riso Scotti-Vinavil in 1999, which was renamed Amica Chips-Tacconi Sport in 2000, but Arvesen's three years in Italy did not get him the results his World Under-23 Championships win had foretold. In 2001 Arvesen and Basso split up, as Arvesen moved on to Danish Team Fakta, where he experienced his most successful year ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marcus Burghardt
Marcus Burghardt (born 30 June 1983) is a former German professional road bicycle racer, who has retired from professional racing as a result of a severe wrist injury suffered at the Tour of Poland in 2021, where he crashed at a roundabout close to the finish of the first stage. Career Burghardt was born in Zschopau, Saxony, and raced as an amateur in the U-23 Wiesenhof team, with which he tasted success in the shape of the overall win at the Bundesliga Gerlingen in 2004. Burghardt turned professional in 2005, and won the UCI ProTour race Gent–Wevelgem in 2007, ahead of teammate Roger Hammond. He has also performed well in some races such as the Dwars door Vlaanderen and some stages of the Vuelta a España. He was successful in winning Stage 18 of the 2008 Tour de France into Saint Etienne, beating break-away compatriot Carlos Barredo. Burghardt signed with for the 2010 season. After seven years there, in August 2016 announced that he would join them for 2017. Major res ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Igor Abakoumov
Igor Abakoumov (born 30 May 1981 in Berdyansk, Ukraine) is a Belgian former professional road bicycle racer of Ukrainian origin. Abakoumov became a naturalized Belgian citizen on 15 September 2001. He turned professional in 2002. Abakumov was left in limbo by his former team, , when the sponsors pulled the plug on funds following a drugs scandal. He last rode for the . Major results ;1999 : 1st Overall GP Général Patton ;2001 : 2nd Omloop van de Westhoek : 3rd GP Claude Criquielion ;2002 : 1st Stage 2 Okolo Slovenska : 5th Flèche Ardennaise ;2003 : 1st Romsée-Stavelot-Romsée : 1st Stage 4 Volta a Tarragona : 1st Stage 5 International Cycling Classic : 2nd Trofee van Haspengouw : 5th Ronde van Drenthe : 5th Hel van het Mergelland : 3rd Rund um Düren : 8th GP Stad Zottegem ;2004 : 1st Profronde van Fryslan (with 21 others) : 8th Route Adélie ;2005 : 2nd Nokere Koerse : 3rd Grand Prix de Wallonie : 6th Classic Loire Atlantique : 8th Paris–Brussels : 9th Druivenkoers-Ove ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Niko Eeckhout
Niko Eeckhout (born 16 December 1970) is a Belgian former professional road racing cyclist, who rode professionally between 1992 and 2013. He was the 2005–2006 UCI Europe Tour series and the 2006 Belgian National Cycling Championship Road Race champion, and currently works for the Team as a coach. Career Born in Izegem, Eeckhout started his career in 1993 riding for the small Collstrop-team. He immediately started winning minor Belgian races like the Championship of Flanders and the Omloop Mandel-Leie-Schelde. In 1997 and 1998 he rode for , and then rode two years for Palmans. Eeckhout had a breakthrough season when he transferred to Lotto-Adecco in 2001, winning 11 races, including Dwars door Vlaanderen and the GP van Steenbergen. Eeckhout struggled through the next two seasons and at the end of 2004 his contract with Lotto-Adecco ended and he needed to find a new team. He signed with the Belgian squad Chocolade Jacques and found his second youth. He started the 2005 s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frederik Veuchelen
Frederik Veuchelen (born 4 September 1978 in Korbeek-Lo) is a Belgian former professional road bicycle racer, who competed professionally between 2004 and 2017 for the , , and teams. Major results ;2003 : 1st Memorial Van Coningsloo : 8th Internationale Wielertrofee Jong Maar Moedig ;2005 : 6th Overall Tour of Britain : 7th Overall Rheinland–Pfalz Rundfahrt ;2006 : 1st Dwars door Vlaanderen : 4th Halle–Ingooigem ;2007 : 3rd Grote Prijs Gerrie Knetemann : 10th Grand Prix de Fourmies ;2008 : 2nd Grand Prix d'Ouverture La Marseillaise : 6th Overall Étoile de Bessèges : 8th Overall Tour of Britain : 10th Overall Circuit de Lorraine : 10th Sparkassen Giro Bochum ;2009 : 6th Druivenkoers Overijse ;2010 : 3rd Road race, National Road Championships : 8th Druivenkoers Overijse ;2011 : 8th Halle–Ingooigem ;2012 : 1st Mountains classification Paris–Nice : 6th Overall Étoile de Bessèges ;2013 : 2nd Tour du Finistère ;2014 : 7th Cholet-Pays de Loire : 9th Overall Étoile ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Waregem
Waregem (; vls, Woaregem), sometimes known as Waereghem, is a municipality and city located in the Belgian province of West Flanders. The municipality lies in the valley of the river Leie, between Kortrijk and Ghent. It is part of the arrondissement of Kortrijk and comprises the towns of Beveren, Desselgem, Sint-Eloois-Vijve and Waregem proper. On January 1, 2019, Waregem had a total population of 38,260. The total area is 44.34 km² which gives a population density of 863 inhabitants per km². History Origins The first inhabitants of this forested region settled along the Leie well before Roman times. Bronze coins and artifacts associated with the Gallo-Roman culture show extensive activity in this area in the first centuries of our era. This is not surprising given the fact that Sint-Eloois-Vijve stood at the intersection of two important Roman roads: Cassel-Tongeren and Bavai-Oudenburg. The name of the current municipality refers to a certain “Waro” clan or trib ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kortrijk
Kortrijk ( , ; vls, Kortryk or ''Kortrik''; french: Courtrai ; la, Cortoriacum), sometimes known in English as Courtrai or Courtray ( ), is a Belgian City status in Belgium, city and Municipalities in Belgium, municipality in the Flemish Region, Flemish Provinces of Belgium, province of West Flanders. It is the capital and largest city of the judicial and administrative arrondissement of Kortrijk. The wider municipality comprises the city of Courtrai proper and the villages of Aalbeke, Bellegem, Bissegem, Heule, Kooigem, Marke (Belgium), Marke, and Rollegem. Courtrai is also part of the cross-border Lille-Kortrijk-Tournai metropolitan area. The city is on the river Leie, southwest of Ghent and northeast of Lille. Mouscron in Wallonia is just south of Courtrai. Courtrai originated from a Gallo-Roman town, ''Cortoriacum'', at a crossroads near the Leie river and two Roman roads. In the Middle Ages, Courtrai grew significantly thanks to the flax and wool industry with France ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
