2007 Vrienden van het Platteland season

2007 Vrienden van het Platteland
UCI Team ranking	23rd
Manager	Jan van Dam
Season victories
One-day races	Road: 2 Track: 1
Stage race overall	0
Stage race stages	1
Best ranked rider	Ellen van Dijk (37th)
Jersey

The 2007 women's road cycling season was the eighth season for the Vrienden van het Platteland (UCI code: VVP) cycling team, which began as Ondernemers van Nature in 2000.

The main victories on the road for the team were the time trial at the Tour of Chongming Island by Ellen van Dijk and the Norwegian and Dutch Time Trial Championships by Anita Valen and Ellen van Dijk. On the track Van Dijk also won the individual pursuit at the Dutch National Track Cycling Championships. At the end of the year the team ended 23rd in the UCI Team's Ranking with Ellen van Dijk as the best individual at the 37th place in the UCI Individual Women's Road Ranking.^[1]

Roster

Ages as of 1 January 2007.

Rider Date of birth  Liesbeth Bakker (NED) July 1, 1986 (aged 20)  Janne Brok (NED) June 7, 1987 (aged 19)  Katie Brown (AUS) February 2, 1983 (aged 23)  Ellen van Dijk (NED) February 11, 1987 (aged 19)  Yvonne Leezer (NED) February 9, 1987 (aged 19)  Emma Mackie (AUS) September 9, 1984 (aged 22)

Rider Date of birth  Anita Valen (NOR) December 12, 1968 (aged 38)  Monique van de Ree (NED) March 2, 1988 (aged 18)  Moniek Rotmensen (NED) April 25, 1986 (aged 20)  Monique Verstraten (NED) April 24, 1983 (aged 23)  Jaccolien Wallaard (NED) September 30, 1982 (aged 24)

Sources^[2][3]

Riders who joined the team for the 2007 season Rider 2006 team  Liesbeth Bakker (NED)  Katie Brown (AUS)  Emma Mackie (AUS)  Anita Valen (NOR)  Monique van de Ree (NED)  Jaccolien Wallaard (NED)

Riders who left the team during or after the 2006 season Rider 2007 team  Chantal Beltman (NED)  Heidi de Voogd (NED)  Corrien van Haastert (NED)  Esther van der Helm (NED)  Iris Slappendel (NED)  Sharon van Essen (NED)

Season

The first podium place for the team was a third place for Jaccolien Wallaard at Omloop Het Volk in March. In May Ellen van Dijk finished third at Omloop van Borsele and in the time trial stage at the Tour de l'Aude Cycliste Féminin. Van Dijk finished third again in an international time trial at the Tour of Chongming Island Time trial in June. The day afterwards Van Dijk won the first stage of the Tour of Chongming Island with Wallaard in third place. After finishing second in the stage 2 and stage 3 Van Dijk ended also second in the general classification.^[4] In July Ellen van Dijk represented the Netherlands at the European Championships (under-23) and finished fifth in the time trial. At the national championships Anita Valen won the time trial in Norway and finished second in the road race. In the Netherlands Ellen van Dijk won the Dutch time trial championships. Due to Van Dijks' good results in the time trials she was chosen to represent the Netherlands in the time trial at the World Championships in Stuttgart where she finished 17th.^[5] Due to her good results Ellen van Dijk became sportswomen of the year of Woerden.^[6] Van Dijk was invited to join the Dutch national track cycling team.^[7] At the national track championships she became Dutch champion in the individual pursuit, ahead of Marianne Vos and Kirsten Wild, and finished fourth in the scratch race and points race.^[8]

Results

Season victories

Single day and stage races 2007^[9]

Date	Nation	Race	Cat.	Winner
3 June	China	Stage 1 Tour of Chongming Island	2.2	Ellen van Dijk

National, Continental and World champions 2007^[9]

Date	Discipline	Jersey	Winner
29 June	Norwegian National Time Trial Champion		Anita Valen
15 August	Dutch national time trial champion		Ellen van Dijk
30 December	Dutch National Track Cycling Champion – Individual pursuit		Ellen van Dijk

Results in major races

Results at the 2007 UCI Women's Road World Cup races

#	Date	Race	Country	Best rider	Place
#1	3 March	Geelong World Cup	Australia	-	-
#2	8 April	Tour of Flanders for Women	Belgium	Ellen van Dijk[W 1]	40th
#3	12 April	Ronde van Drenthe	Netherlands	Ellen van Dijk	15th
#4	25 April	La Flèche Wallonne Féminine	Belgium	-	-
#5	13 May	Tour de Berne	Switzerland	-	-
#6	2 June	La Coupe du Monde Cycliste Féminine de Montréal	Canada	-	-
#7	5 August	Open de Suède Vårgårda	Sweden	Anita Valen	13th
#8	1 September	GP de Plouay	France	-	-
#9	16 September	Rund um die Nürnberger Altstadt	Germany	Anita Valen	15th

1. As part of the Dutch national team

Results in other major single day races

Date	Race[M 1]	Rider	Place
3 July	European Road Championships – Women's under-23 time trial	Ellen van Dijk	5th
5 July	European Road Championships – Women's under-23 road race	Ellen van Dijk	11th
23 September	Road World Championships – Women's time trial [10]	Ellen van Dijk	17th

1. Riders are in these championships part of the national team

UCI World Ranking

The team finished 23rd in the UCI ranking for teams.^[1]

Individual UCI World Ranking^[1]

Rank	Rider	Points
37	Ellen van Dijk	145
120	Anita Valen	34
145	Jaccolien Wallaard	22
356	Monique van de Ree	3

References

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7. Ellen van Dijk. "Biography of Ellen van Dijk". Ellenvandijk.nl. Retrieved 4 September 2012.
8. "Ellen van Dijk (cyclingarchives)". Cyclingarchives.com. Retrieved 5 September 2012.
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10. "2007 World Championships WE - ITT (CM)". procyclingstats.com. Retrieved 29 July 2014.