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2005 Hel Van Het Mergelland
The 2005 Hel van het Mergelland was the 32nd edition of the Volta Limburg Classic cycle race and was held on 2 April 2005. The race started and finished in Eijsden. The race was won by Nico Sijmens Nico Sijmens (born 1 April 1978 in Diest, Belgium) is a retired Belgian road racing cyclist, who competed professionally between 2001 and 2014. Sijmens rodes for the , , and teams over his career. Career achievements Major results ;2002 : 4 .... General classification References 2005 2005 in road cycling 2005 in Dutch sport {{cycling-race-stub ...
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Nico Sijmens
Nico Sijmens (born 1 April 1978 in Diest, Belgium) is a retired Belgian road racing cyclist, who competed professionally between 2001 and 2014. Sijmens rodes for the , , and teams over his career. Career achievements Major results ;2002 : 4th Overall Vuelta a La Rioja : 5th Le Samyn ;2003 : Tour of Austria ::1st Stages 4 & 6 : 9th Clásica de Almería : 10th Classic Loire Atlantique ;2004 : 1st Grand Prix Pino Cerami : 3rd Brabantse Pijl : 3rd Grand Prix de Denain : 8th Rund um Köln : 9th Grand Prix de Wallonie ;2005 : 1st Overall Regio-Tour ::1st Stage 2 : 1st Hel van het Mergelland : 2nd Brussel–Ingooigem : 6th Grote Prijs Jef Scherens : 9th Overall Tour de Wallonie ;2006 : 2nd Overall Tour de Wallonie ::1st Stage 3 : 6th Tour du Doubs : 8th Overall Driedaagse van West-Vlaanderen : 8th Grote Prijs Jef Scherens : 10th Hel van het Mergelland : 10th Le Samyn ;2007 : 1st Beverbeek Classic : 1st Hel van het Mergelland : 7th Tour de la Somme : 9th Grand Prix de Wallonie ;2008 ...
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Stefan Schumacher
Stefan Schumacher (born 21 July 1981) is a German former professional road racing cyclist. Schumacher won the bronze medal in the road race at the 2007 UCI Road World Championships, two stages in the 2006 Giro d'Italia and two stages in the 2008 Tour de France. After positive results on doping products in the 2008 Tour de France and the 2008 Summer Olympics, he received a suspension for two years, later reduced by some months. After his suspension, he came back as a professional cyclist before retiring in 2017. Career First professionally employed with in 2002, he was released the following year. In 2006, he made his UCI ProTour debut with after posting impressive continental circuits results on the UCI Europe Tour. Schumacher has been involved in a series of controversial incidents during his career. He was implicated in a doping case in 2005 when he tested positive for an amphetamine. His mother, a doctor, had prescribed an asthma medication after failing to find it on the ...
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Maarten Wynants
Maarten Wynants (born 13 May 1982) is a Belgian former professional road bicycle racer, who rode professionally between 2005 and 2021 for the , and teams. He now works as a directeur sportif for his final professional team, UCI WorldTeam . Career Born in Hasselt, Wynants was awarded the Combativity award, given to a rider judged to have showed exceptional attacking spirit during the race, following Stage 1 of the 2010 Tour de France on 4 July. Attacking in the first kilometre, he continued to lead from the front until both he and Alexandr Pliushin of were caught by the peloton just from the end of the stage. In June 2020, Wynants announced that he would retire from cycling in April 2021, after that year's Paris–Roubaix. Following the postponement of Paris–Roubaix to October due to the COVID-19 pandemic in France, Wynants' final race occurred at the Tour of Flanders. Major results ;2004 : 1st Road race, National Under-23 Road Championships : 10th Grand Prix de Ware ...
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2004 Hel Van Het Mergelland
The 2004 Hel van het Mergelland was the 31st edition of the Volta Limburg Classic cycle race and was held on 3 April 2004. The race started and finished in Eijsden. The race was won by Allan Johansen. General classification References 2004 2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and its Abolition (by UNESCO). Events January * January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 6 ... 2004 in road cycling 2004 in Dutch sport {{cycling-race-stub ...
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2006 Hel Van Het Mergelland
The 2006 Hel van het Mergelland was the 33rd edition of the Volta Limburg Classic cycle race and was held on 1 April 2006. The race started and finished in Eijsden. The race was won by Mikhaylo Khalilov. General classification References 2006 2006 in road cycling 2006 in Dutch sport {{cycling-race-stub ...
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Volta Limburg Classic
Volta Limburg Classic is a single-day road bicycle race held annually in late March or early April in Limburg (Netherlands), Limburg, Netherlands. Since 2005, the race is organized as a UCI race classifications, 1.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour. Prior to 2012, the race was known as Hel van het Mergelland. Winners Men's race Source: Women's race References External links

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Eijsden
Eijsden (; li, Èèsjde ) is a village situated in the very south of the European country the Netherlands. It is located in the southwestern part of the province of Limburg. Until 1 January 2011, Eijsden was the main village in a municipality with the same name. On that date this municipality merged with the neighbouring one of Margraten, resulting in nowadays Eijsden-Margraten municipality, in which Eijsden again is the biggest place. This village is one of the most southerly places in the Netherlands, for in its south it is extending up to the most southerly part of the border between the Netherlands and Belgium. The Meuse river, coming from France and Belgium, here enters its third and final flowing country, the Netherlands. From here on its name in Dutch is ''Maas''. Running northward to Eijsden's west it locally forms the westerly frontier of the last mentioned country with Belgium. Its Belgian border across the Meuse is Lanaye, a village of Liège Province in Wallonia, ...
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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 ...
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Jos Lucassen
Jos is a city in the north central region of Nigeria. The city has a population of about 900,000 residents based on the 2006 census. Popularly called "J-Town", it is the administrative capital and largest city of Plateau State. During British colonial rule, Jos was an important centre for tin mining and is the trading hub of the state as commercial activities are steadily increasing. History The earliest known settlers of the land that would come to be known as Nigeria were the Nok people ( BCE), skilled artisans from around the Jos area who mysteriously vanished in the late first millennium. According to the historian Sen Luka Gwom Zangabadt, the area known as Jos today was inhabited by indigenous ethnic groups who were mostly farmers. According to Billy J. Dudley, the British colonialists used direct rule for the indigenous ethnic groups on the Jos Plateau since they were not under the Fulani emirates where indirect rule was used. According to the historian Samuel N Nwabar ...
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Jens Heppner
Jens Heppner (born 23 December 1964) is a German former road bicycle racer. He wore the pink jersey as leader of the general classification during the 2002 Giro d'Italia. Although he rode for Telekom during ten years, he has consistently denied ever having doped. His name was on the list of doping tests published by the French Senate on 24 July 2013 that were collected during the 1998 Tour de France and found positive for EPO when retested in 2004. He won the German National Road Race in 1994.   After his career, he worked in his own company in Hergenrath (Germany). Major results ;1982 : World Junior Team Time Trial Championship ;1986 :7th Overall GP Tell ;1987 :1st Overall Hessen Rundfahrt :1st Overall Sachsen Tour ;1990 :7th Overall Circuit de la Sarthe ;1992 :10th Overall Tour de France ;1993 :3rd Amstel Gold Race :4th Zuri-Metzgete :9th Rund um den Henninger Turm ;1994 :1st Overall Tour du Limousin ::1st Stage 1 : 1st Road race, National Road Championships :3rd Run ...
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Steven Kleynen
Steven Kleynen (born 22 December 1977) is a Belgian former cyclist. Major results ;1999 : 9th Under-23 World Road Race Championships ;2000 : 1st Stage 2 Tour of Bohemia ;2001 : 6th GP du canton d'Argovie : 7th Grand Prix de Wallonie ;2003 : 1st Overall Circuito Montañés ;2005 : 7th Hel van het Mergelland : 8th Clásica de Almería : 9th Overall Sachsen-Tour ;2006 : 7th Hel van het Mergelland : 8th Overall Rheinland-Pfalz Rundfahrt Rhineland-Palatinate ( , ; german: link=no, Rheinland-Pfalz ; lb, Rheinland-Pfalz ; pfl, Rhoilond-Palz) is a western state of Germany. It covers and has about 4.05 million residents. It is the ninth largest and sixth most populous of the ... Grand Tour general classification results timeline References 1977 births Living people Belgian male cyclists Cyclists from Leuven {{Belgium-cycling-bio-1970s-stub ...
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Dennis Haueisen
Dennis Haueisen (born 13 September 1978 in Gera) is a retired German professional road bicycle racer who was active between 2001 and 2008. He is a son of Lutz Haueisen, amateur cyclist who won two world titles in track events. Palmares * Profronde van Fryslan (2004) * International Cycling Classic The International Cycling Classic, also known as Superweek, was a stage race, multi-day cycling race held around Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The race took place annually from 1989 to 2011 and was contested over 17 days. Beginning in 1999, there was also ... – 1 stage & Overall (2006) References External links * 1978 births Living people German male cyclists Sportspeople from Gera Cyclists from Thuringia 21st-century German people {{Germany-cycling-bio-1970s-stub ...
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