Theo Eltink (born November 27, 1981 in
Eindhoven
Eindhoven () is a city and municipality in the Netherlands, located in the southern province of North Brabant of which it is its largest. With a population of 238,326 on 1 January 2022,[road bicycle racer
Road bicycle racing is the cycle sport discipline of road cycling, held primarily on paved roads. Road racing is the most popular professional form of bicycle racing, in terms of numbers of competitors, events and spectators. The two most common ...]
.
Biography
In his youth, Eltink also was a good
ice skater
Ice skating is the self-propulsion and gliding of a person across an ice surface, using metal-bladed ice skates. People skate for various reasons, including recreation (fun), exercise, competitive sports, and commuting. Ice skating may be perfo ...
, but finally chose for cycling. He competed in
cyclo-cross and road races at cycling club "Het snelle wiel". After Eltink finished school, he focussed on cycling.
Eltink became a member of the Rabobank TT3, a team for promising young riders. In 2005, Eltink became a professional cyclist for . In his first year, Eltink started in the
2005 Giro d'Italia
The 2005 Giro d'Italia was the 88th edition of the Giro d'Italia, one of cycling's Grand Tours. It began in Reggio Calabria with a prologue. The race came to a close with a mass-start road stage that stretched from Albese con Cassano to M ...
, and finished 29th in the general classification.
Major results
*
Tour de l'Avenir
Tour de l'Avenir ( en, Tour of the Future) is a French road bicycle racing stage race, which started in 1961 as a race similar to the Tour de France and over much of the same course but for amateurs and for semi-professionals known as independents ...
- 1 stage (2004)
*
Tour des Pyrénées
The Tour des Pyrénées was a road bicycle race held annually in France and Spain. It was organized as a 2.2 event on the UCI Europe Tour
The UCI Continental Circuits are a series of road bicycle racing competitions which were introduced in 2005 b ...
- 1 stage (2004)
* 2nd, National U23 Cyclo-Cross Championship (2003)
* 3rd, National U17 Cyclo-Cross Championship (1997)
External links
Profile at Rabobank official website*
1981 births
Living people
Dutch male cyclists
Sportspeople from Eindhoven
Cyclists from North Brabant
20th-century Dutch people
21st-century Dutch people
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