2013 Belgium Tour
The 2013 Lotto-Belisol Belgium Tour is the second edition of the Lotto-Belisol Belgium Tour, previous called Lotto-Decca Tour, a women's cycle stage race in Belgium. The tour will be held from 23 to 26 August 2013. The tour has an UCI rating of 2.2. Stages Stage 1 ;23-08-2013 – Warquignies to Angreau, Team time trial (TTT) Stage 2 ;24-08-2013 – Angreau to Angreau, Stage 3 ;25-08-2013 – Nijlen to Nijlen, Stage 4 ;26-08-2013 – Geraardsbergen Geraardsbergen (; french: Grammont, ) is a city and municipality located in the Denderstreek and in the Flemish Ardennes, the hilly southern part of the Belgian province of East Flanders. The municipality comprises the city of Geraardsbergen prop ... to Geraardsbergen, Classification leadership Classification standings General Classification Source Team Classification Source Sprints Classification Source Mountains Classification Source Young rider classification Source Belgian Rider Cl ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Ellen Van Dijk
Eleonora Maria "Ellen" van Dijk (; born 11 February 1987) is a Dutch professional road racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam . Besides road cycling she was also a track cyclist until 2012. Van Dijk is known as a time trial specialist and is five times world champion. She won her first world title on the track in the scratch race in 2008. She became Road World Champion in 2012, 2013 and 2016 with her respective trade teams in the team time trial and in 2013 also in the individual time trial. In 2015, she won the time trial at the first European Games and the silver medal in the team time trial at the world championships. Van Dijk started as a speed skater and as part of her skating training she undertook cycling as part of cross-training in summer. She excelled at both, competing nationally at junior level. After becoming a national cycling champion for the fifth time in 2007, she quit speed skating and became a full-time cyclist. Along with her world ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Evelyn Stevens (cyclist)
Evelyn Lee Stevens (born May 9, 1983) is an American retired professional road bicycle racing, road cyclist. Early life Stevens was born in Claremont, California but grew up in Acton, Massachusetts, where she attended Acton-Boxborough Regional High School. She studied government and women and gender studies at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire and was a member of the college's tennis team. After graduating in 2005 she moved to New York City where she worked for Lehman Brothers for two years, then for mezzanine fund Gleacher Mezzanine before quitting in July 2009 to take up cycling full-time. Career She competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the Cycling at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Women's road race, women's road race, finishing 24th. In July 2014, Stevens competed at the 2014 Giro d'Italia Femminile, Giro d'Italia and 2014 Thüringen Rundfahrt der Frauen, Thüringen Rundfahrt over 17 consecutive days of racing, finishing 14th and 1st respectively. On February 27, 2016, St ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Nijlen
Nijlen () is a municipality located in the Belgian province of Antwerp. The municipality comprises the towns of , Kessel and Nijlen proper. In 2021, Nijlen had a total population of 22,985. The total area is 39.09 km2. History In 1770, a hoard of golden coins dating from Julius Caesar to Titus Flavius Domitianus was discovered. Nijlen was first mentioned in 1146 as having possessions of Tongerlo Abbey. The village was damaged during the Reformation and nearly depopulated. In the 18th century, there was a population increase which accelerated after the railway station on the line from Antwerp to Herentals opened in 1853. Around 1875, diamond industry started in Nijlen which became the second most importance centre for diamonds after Antwerp in Belgium. Notable inhabitants * Libera Carlier (b. Nijlen, 19 January 1926 – 25 April 2007) * Jozef Van Hove (b. Berchem, 16 November 1919) Gallery File:Nijlen station.jpg, Railway station Nijlen File:Nijlen G Gezellestraat Wat ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Loes Gunnewijk
Loes Gunnewijk (born 27 November 1980 in Groenlo) is a Dutch former professional racing cyclist, who rode professionally between 2004 and 2015. Gunnewijk was a member of the Dutch national team together with Ellen van Dijk, Marianne Vos and Annemiek van Vleuten in the road race at the 2012 Summer Olympics where Vos won the gold medal. Gunnewijk announced her retirement from the sport in May 2015, subsequently completing the Union Cycliste Internationale's Sports Directors Diploma course in November 2015. Between May and the end of 2016, Gunnewijk joined her old cycling team as a trainee directeur sportif. Since 2017, Gunnewijk has been the head junior women's coach and assistant para-cycling coach for the Dutch cycling national federation KNWU. Major results ;2002 : 1st Omloop van Borsele : 2nd Time trial, National Road Championships : 9th Overall Holland Ladies Tour ;2003 : 1st Stage 9 ( ITT) Giro d'Italia Femminile : 3rd Individual pursuit, National Track Championships ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Kelly Druyts
Kelly Druyts (born 21 November 1989) is a Belgian racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's Continental Team . She finished in second place in the Belgian National Road Race Championships in 2010. She won a bronze medal in the scratch race at the 2012 UCI Track Cycling World Championships, and gold in the scratch race at the 2014 Championships. Druyts is from a sporting family: her father, Ronny, played youth football with Beerschot AC and at the senior level with Dynamo Niel, where he was a champion in the Belgian Provincial leagues, her sister Steffy was a multiple national champion in gymnastics, and she is the sister of racing cyclists Jessy Druyts, Demmy Druyts, Lenny Druyts and Gerry Druyts. Kelly was a national champion in triathlon and duathlon before focussing on cycling. Major results Road ;2006 : 1st Grimbergen Juniors ;2007 : 1st Hoogstraten-Wortel ;2008 : 3rd Time trial, National Road Championships ;2009 : 1st Road race, Brabant Provincial Road Cham ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Rossella Ratto
Rossella Ratto (born 20 October 1993) is an Italian former racing cyclist, who rode professionally between 2012 and 2021 for seven different teams. Personal life Ratto's brother, Daniele Ratto, also competed professionally in cycling, including winning the fourteenth stage of the 2013 Vuelta a España. Major results Source: ;2008 : 2nd Time trial, National Novice Road Championships ;2009 : 1st Time trial, National Novice Road Championships ;2010 : 2nd Road race, UCI Juniors Road World Championships : 2nd Memorial Davide Fardelli Chrono : 3rd Road race, UEC European Junior Road Championships : National Junior Road Championships ::3rd Road race ::3rd Time trial ;2011 : UEC European Junior Road Championships ::1st Road race ::1st Time trial : 3rd Memorial Davide Fardelli Chrono ;2012 : 5th Overall Giro del Trentino Alto Adige-Südtirol : 6th Road race, UCI Road World Championships : 6th Grand Prix el Salvador : 7th Overall Vuelta a El Salvador : 7th Overall Giro della T ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Kirsten Wild
Kirsten Carlijn Wild (born 15 October 1982) is a Dutch former professional racing cyclist, who rode professionally between 2004 and 2021, for eight professional teams. During her track cycling career, Wild rode at the Summer Olympic Games in 2012, 2016 and 2020, winning a bronze medal at the latter Games, in the omnium. She won eighteen medals including nine golds at the UCI Track Cycling World Championships, and eighteen medals including eight golds at the UEC European Track Championships. Wild also took over 100 victories in road racing, and won two medals at the UCI Road World Championships. Career At the 2012 London Olympics Wild finished sixth in the omnium, and was a member of the Dutch team that finished sixth in the team pursuit (together with Ellen van Dijk, Amy Pieters and Vera Koedooder). After two seasons with , in September 2016 announced that Wild would join them for the 2017 season. In October 2017, one day after the 2017 UEC European Track Championships in Berli ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Jersey Yellow
Jersey ( , ; nrf, Jèrri, label= Jèrriais ), officially the Bailiwick of Jersey (french: Bailliage de Jersey, links=no; Jèrriais: ), is an island country and self-governing Crown Dependency near the coast of north-west France. It is the largest of the Channel Islands and is from the Cotentin Peninsula in Normandy. The Bailiwick consists of the main island of Jersey and some surrounding uninhabited islands and rocks including Les Dirouilles, Les Écréhous, Les Minquiers, and Les Pierres de Lecq. Jersey was part of the Duchy of Normandy, whose dukes became kings of England from 1066. After Normandy was lost by the kings of England in the 13th century, and the ducal title surrendered to France, Jersey remained loyal to the English Crown, though it never became part of the Kingdom of England. Jersey is a self-governing parliamentary democracy under a constitutional monarchy, with its own financial, legal and judicial systems, and the power of self-determination. The ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Team TIBCO
A team is a group of individuals (human or non-human) working together to achieve their goal. As defined by Professor Leigh Thompson of the Kellogg School of Management, " team is a group of people who are interdependent with respect to information, resources, knowledge and skills and who seek to combine their efforts to achieve a common goal". A group does not necessarily constitute a team. Teams normally have members with complementary skills and generate synergy through a coordinated effort which allows each member to maximize their strengths and minimize their weaknesses. Naresh Jain (2009) claims: Team members need to learn how to help one another, help other team members realize their true potential, and create an environment that allows everyone to go beyond their limitations. While academic research on teams and teamwork has grown consistently and has shown a sharp increase over the past recent 40 years, the societal diffusion of teams and teamwork actually foll ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Tayler Wiles
Tayler Wiles (born July 20, 1989) is an American racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam . She rode at the 2014 UCI Road World Championships. Wiles originally played soccer until she entered the University of Utah as a pre-medical student at the age of 18. She subsequently took up cycling with her then boyfriend during her sophomore year in 2008. Personal life Wiles is openly gay. She is married to former professional cyclist Olivia Dillon. Major results ;2012 : 3rd Overall Tour Cycliste Féminin International de l'Ardèche ;2013 : 1st Stage 1 ( TTT) Belgium Tour : National Road Championships ::8th Time trial ::9th Road race ;2014 : 1st Overall Rás na mBan : 1st Chrono Gatineau : 2nd Overall Tour Cycliste Féminin International de l'Ardèche : National Road Championships ::4th Road race ::4th Time trial ;2015 : 1st Overall Women's Tour of New Zealand ::1st Stages 1 ( TTT) & 4 : 1st Overall Tour Cycliste Féminin International de l'Ardèche ::1st ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |