Lars Boom
 Lars Boom at the 2015 Tour de France | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Lars Anthonius Johannes Boom | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born |
30 December 1985 Vlijmen, the Netherlands | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 75 kg (165 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Current team | Astana | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Discipline |
Cyclo-cross Road | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Rider | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rider type |
Cyclo-cross Time-trialist/ Classics specialist (road) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 2002–2003 | Rabobank Junior | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Professional team(s) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2004–2008 | Rabobank GS3 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2009–2014 | Rabobank | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2015– | Astana | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Medal record
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Infobox last updated on 24 December 2014 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Lars Anthonius Johannes Boom (born 30 December 1985) is a professional cyclo-cross and road racing cyclist who was born in Vlijmen, Netherlands. Boom rides for UCI ProTeam Astana, having previously ridden for Rabobank[1] and the junior and continental teams. Boom won the cyclo-cross world championships in 2008. He has also been the Dutch national cyclo-cross champion in his discipline from 2001 to 2012 – junior cyclo-cross champion from 2002 to 2003, U23 champion from 2004 to 2006, and the elite champion from 2007 to 2012.
Career
Rabobank CT (2003–2008)
During the 2005–2006 cyclocross season, Boom who just turned 20 years of age, scored several wins including a win ahead of Sven Nys in the Grand Prix Sven Nys[2] as well as the win in the Vlaamse Druivenveldrit Overijse after Bart Wellens was disqualified for having kicked a spectator.[3] Boom was beaten by Zdenek Stybar in a sprint for the Under 23 World Championships[4] but returned a year later to dominate the race and to win the Under 23 World Champion jersey.[5]
For the 2006–2007 season, Boom asked and received special dispensation to ride the Dutch Elite Cyclo Cross championships and became Champion of the Netherlands.[6] In addition to Boom's successes in cyclo-cross, he has achieved success on the road and has won several stage races such as the Tour de Bretagne Cycliste.[7] In September 2007, Boom became Under 23 World Time Trial champion beating Russian Mikhail Ignatiev.[8] In November 2007, Boom won the Gerrit Schulte Trophy as the Dutch cyclist of the year for his two World Championship wins.[9] In the 2007–2008 Cyclo-cross season, Boom won a World Cup event in Pijnacker, a Gazet van Antwerpen event in Loenhout and then became Dutch Elite National cyclo-cross champion for the second time. After that, he also won the World Cup races in Lievin and Hoogerheide. He went into the world championships in Treviso 2008 as big favourite and didn't fail, he won the race and became the second rider after Radomír Šimůnek to win the world title in all categories (Junior, Espoir and Elite).
During the 2008 road season, Boom continued his progression on the road despite a successful cyclocross season. On his third day of racing on the road, he won the third stage of the Tour de Bretagne cycliste in Fréhel.[10] Boom also won the sixth stage time trial.[11] Boom then dominated the oldest stage race in the Netherlands – the Olympia's Tour.[12] After competing in two stage races in Spain in which he won the first and won three stages in the second, Boom returned to the Netherlands where he won the Dutch national road race championships for elite riders.[13][14] He would win the national time trial title several weeks later after which he announced that he intends on switching focus from cyclo-cross to road racing after the 2008/09 cyclo-cross season.[15]
Rabobank Pro/Belkin (2009–)
In 2009 Boom won the Tour of Belgium after a strong performance uphill, and in the final Time Trial. In his first Vuelta, he was part of a break of 12 riders in the 15th stage. He rode away on the final climb and took the stage, making him the first Dutchman to win a stage in a Grand Tour since 2005.
Boom started the 2010 season by winning the Dutch national cyclocross championships. This was only his second and last cross of the season he rode. In the prologue of Paris–Nice he bested time-trial giants Jens Voigt, Levi Leipheimer, Alberto Contador and David Millar. During the winter of 2010–2011 Boom made a short return to the cyclocross, he won the World Cup race in Zolder and won for the fifth consecutive time the Dutch national cyclocross championships. In 2011 he was again the fastest in a prologue of a World Tour event: the Critérium du Dauphiné. Later that year he won two stages and the general classification in the Tour of Britain.
Boom won the Dutch Cyclocross Championship for the sixth consecutive time in January 2012, extending his consecutive streak record.[16]
In 2014 Boom won the fifth stage of the Tour de France, a stage marked by difficulty due to wet conditions and significant sections of cobblestones. The stage was his first win of 2014. It was exactly nine years ago that a Dutch rider, Pieter Weening, won a Tour de France Stage.[17]
Astana Pro Team 2015–
Subsequently Boom announced that he would be leaving Belkin and joining Team Astana for the 2015 and 2016 seasons.[18]
Coming into the Tour de France, Boom's notable results of the 2015 campaign were fourth in the Paris-Roubaix[19] and sixth in the Tour of Flanders.[20] There was some controversy at the beginning of the Tour, as Boom's cortisol levels were too low in his blood per MPCC rules to participate in a cycling event, but the Astana management decided to field him anyway.[21] Boom blamed his asthma inhaler for his low cortisol levels.[22]
Career highlights
Cyclo-cross
- 2001
- 1st
National Junior Championships - 2002
- 1st National Junior Championships
- 2003
- 1st
World Junior Championships - 1st National Junior Championships
- 2004
- 1st National Under-23 Championships
- 1st U-23 Cyclo-cross Ruddervoorde
- 1st European Under-23 Championships
- 2005
- 1st National Under-23 Championships
- 1st Cyclo-cross Amersfoort
- 1st Cyclo-cross Veldhoven
- 1st Cyclo-cross Overijse
- 2006
- 1st National Under-23 Championships
- 1st Grand Prix Sven Nys
- 1st Grand Prix Adrie van der Poel, u23s
- 2007
- 1st World Under-23 Championships
- 1st National Championships
- 1st U-23 Grand Prix Adrie van der Poel
- 1st UCI Cyclo-Cross World Cup # 3 Veldrit Pijnacker
- 1st GVA Trophy cross #5 Azencross in Cyclo-cross Loenhout
- 2008
- 1st World Championships
- 1st National Championships
- 1st World Cup-races Cyclo-cross Liévin & Grand Prix Adri van der Poel
- 2009
- 1st National Championships
- 2010
- 1st National Championships
- 1st UCI Cyclo-Cross World Cup # 6 Heusden Zolder
- 2011
- 1st National Championships
- 2012
- 1st National Championships
Road racing
- 2004
- 1st Stage 2 Triptyque Ardennais
- 2005
- 1st U-23 Classification Triptyque des Barrages
- 1st Stage 2 Tour de la Somme
- 2nd Overall Ronde van Hessen
- 2006
- 1st Overall Volta ao Distrito de Santarém
- 1st Stage 3
- 1st Overall U-23 Le Triptyque des Monts et Châteaux
- 1st Stage 2
- 2007
- 1st UCI Road World Championships Time Trial, U-23
- 1st Omloop der Kempen
- Olympia's Tour
- 1st Prologue, Stages 4 & 6
- 1st Overall Tour de Bretagne Cycliste
- 1st Prologue & Stage 5
- 1st Prologue Tour de Normandie
- 3rd Overall Volta ao Distrito de Santarém
- 3rd Tour du Poitou-Charentes
- 2008
- 1st National Road Race Championships
- 1st National Time Trial Championships
- Tour de Bretagne Cycliste
- 1st Stages 3 & 6
- 1st Overall Olympia's Tour
- 1st Stages 7 & 8
- 1st Overall Volta a Lleida
- 1st Stage 8
- Circuito Montañés
- 1st Stages 1, 5a & 7
- 1st Stage 4 Vuelta Ciclista a León
- 2009
- 1st Overall Tour of Belgium
- 1st Stage 15 Vuelta a España
- 7th Overall Sachsen Tour
- 2010
- 1st Prologue Paris–Nice
- 1st Grote Prijs Jef Scherens
- 5th E3 Prijs Harelbeke
- 6th Overall Eneco Tour
- 2011
- 1st Overall Tour of Britain
- 1st Stages 3 & 6
- 1st Prologue Critérium du Dauphiné
- 1st Prologue Tour of Qatar
- 1st Stage 1 (TTT) Tirreno-Adriatico
- 1st
Overall Tour of Britain
- 1st Stages 3 & 6
- 9th Gent - Wevelgem
- 10th Overall Omloop Het Nieuwsblad
- 2012
- 1st
Overall Eneco Tour - 2nd Overall Ster ZLM Toer
- 1st Stage 3
- 2nd Rondje Zuidoost
- 2nd Dutch National time-trial Championships
- 2nd Dutch National road race Championships
- 6th Paris–Roubaix
- 2013
- 1st
Overall Ster ZLM Toer
- 1st Stage 4
- 1st Stage 2 (ITT) Tour Méditerranéen
- 1st
Points classification Eneco Tour - 1st Profronde van Heerlen
- 1st Profronde van Zevenbergen
- 2nd Overall Tour du Haut Var
- 1st Stage 2
- 3rd Profronde van Oostvoorne
- 4th Binche–Chimay–Binche
- 6th Profronde van Surhuisterveen
- 2014
- 1st Stage 5 Tour de France
- 2nd Overall Eneco Tour[23]
- 2015
- 1st Stage 1 Danmark Rundt
- 4th Paris–Roubaix
- 6th Tour of Flanders
- 2016
- 6th E3 Harelbeke
Grand Tour General Classification results timeline
| Grand Tour | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Giro |
- | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Tour |
- | 130 | WD | - | 105 | 97[24] | WD |
| Vuelta |
55 | - | - | 107 | - | - | - |
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WD = Withdrew; IP = In Progress
Monuments results
This table shows Boom's results in the five cycling monuments.
| Year | Milan–San Remo | Tour of Flanders | Paris–Roubaix | Liège–Bastogne–Liège | Giro di Lombardia |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 102nd | ||||
| 2010 | 94th | 77th | DNF | ||
| 2011 | 112th | 37th | 12th | ||
| 2012 | 32nd | DNF | 6th | ||
| 2013 | 11th | 14th | |||
| 2014 | 93rd | 37th | |||
| 2015 | 51st | 6th | 4th | ||
| 2016 | 25th | 11th | - |
See also
References
- ↑ "Former Rabobank (RAB) – NED". UCI World Tour. Union Cycliste Internationale. Retrieved 3 January 2013.
- ↑ "Results 7th Grote Prijs Sven Nys". Cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 2007-12-17.
- ↑ "Vlaamse Druivenveldrit Overijse Belgium Results". Cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 2007-12-17.
- ↑ "Stybar wins cat and mouse Espoir race". Cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 2007-12-17.
- ↑ "Dutch elite champion easily beats U23 field". Cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 2007-12-17.
- ↑ "Boom booms in cyclo-cross". Cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 2007-12-17.
- ↑ "Boasson Hagen and Boom share the honours". Cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 2007-12-17.
- ↑ "Holland's Boom takes Under 23 title after two-man fight". Cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 2007-12-17.
- ↑ "Boom: Dutch cyclist of the year". Cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 2007-12-17.
- ↑ "He's back! Like a Boomerang". Cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 2008-07-03.
- ↑ "It's Boom again and Poilvet stays on top". Cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 2008-07-03.
- ↑ "Olympia's Tour 2008 for Lars". Lars Boom.nl. Retrieved 2008-07-03.
- ↑ "Lars Boom pakt ook nationale titel op de weg" (in Dutch). Elsevier.nl. Retrieved 2008-07-03.
- ↑ "Lars Lars Boom Nederlands wielerkampioen" (in Dutch). Gelderlander.nl. Retrieved 2008-07-03.
- ↑ "Boom to concentrate on road after '08". Cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 2008-12-19.
- ↑ "Boom wins Dutch 'cross title". 8 January 2012. Retrieved 18 June 2012.
- ↑ "Boom wins cobblestone stage as Nibali extends GC lead, Froome crashes out". VeloNews (Competitor Group, Inc.). 9 July 2014. Retrieved 24 July 2014.
- ↑ Hood, Andrew (1 August 2014). "Giro points champ Bouhanni to Cofidis; Boom to Astana". VeloNews. Retrieved 3 August 2014.
- ↑ "Degenkolb wins Paris-Roubaix". Cyclingnews.com (Future plc). 12 April 2015. Retrieved 29 June 2015.
- ↑ "Kristoff conquers Tour of Flanders". Cyclingnews. 10 April 2015. Retrieved 29 June 2015.
- ↑ Hood, Andrew (4 July 2015). "Astana says Boom will start Tour". VeloNews (Competitor Group, Inc.). Retrieved 4 July 2015.
- ↑ "Boom blames asthma inhaler for low cortisol levels". Cyclingnews.com (Immediate Media Company). 4 July 2015. Retrieved 4 July 2015.
- ↑ Benson, Daniel (17 August 2014). "Wellens wins the Eneco Tour". cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 18 August 2014.
- ↑ "Tour de France 2014 Jersey wearers after the stage 21".
External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Lars Boom. |
- Official website
- Lars Boom profile at Cycling Archives
- Lars Boom profile at ProCyclingStats
| Sporting positions | ||
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| Preceded by Koos Moerenhout |
Dutch National Road Race Champion 2008 |
Succeeded by Koos Moerenhout |
| Preceded by Stef Clement |
Dutch National Time Trial Champion 2008 |
Succeeded by Stef Clement |
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