Tom Boonen

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Tom Boonen
Personal information
Full name Tom Boonen
Born ( 1980-10-15 ) 15 October 1980 (age 43)
Mol , Belgium
Height 1.92 m (6 ft 3 + 1 2  in)
Weight 82 kg (181 lb; 12 st 13 lb)
Team information
Current team Retired
Discipline Road
Role Rider
Rider type Classics specialist
Sprinter
Professional teams
2002 U.S. Postal Service
2003?2017 Quick-Step?Davitamon
Major wins
Grand Tours
Tour de France
Points classification ( 2007 )
6 individual stages ( 2004 , 2005 , 2007 )
Vuelta a Espana
2 individual stages ( 2008 )

Stage races

Tour of Belgium (2005)
Tour de Picardie (2004)
Tour of Qatar (2006, 2008 , 2009 , 2012 )
World Ports Classic (2012)

One-day races and Classics

World Road Race Championships ( 2005 )
National Road Race Championships (2009, 2012)
Tour of Flanders ( 2005 , 2006 , 2012 )
Paris?Roubaix ( 2005 , 2008 , 2009 , 2012 )
E3 Harelbeke ( 2004 , 2005 , 2006 , 2007 , 2012 )
Gent?Wevelgem ( 2004 , 2011 , 2012 )
Scheldeprijs ( 2004 , 2006 )
Kuurne?Brussels?Kuurne (2007, 2009, 2014 )
Dwars door Vlaanderen ( 2007 )
Paris?Brussels (2012, 2016)
Munsterland Giro (2015)
London-Surrey Classic ( 2016 )
Medal record
Men's road bicycle racing
Representing   Belgium
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2005 Madrid Road Race
Bronze medal – third place 2016 Doha Road Race
Representing Template:Cycling data EQS (2012, 2014)
Template:Cycling data EQS (2015)
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2012 Valkenburg Team Time Trial
Silver medal – second place 2015 Richmond Team Time Trial
Bronze medal – third place 2014 Ponferrada Team Time Trial
Omloop Het Nieuwsblad 2015 : Niki Terpstra (2), Ian Stannard (1) & Tom Boonen (3).

Tom Boonen ( pronounced  [Bo?n?n] ; born 15 October 1980) is a Belgian road bicycle racer . He won the 2005 World Cycling Championship . Boonen is a member of the Deceuninck?Quick-Step team, [1] He is a sprinter.

References [ change | change source ]

  1. "Omega Pharma-Quick-Step Cycling Team (OPQ) ? BEL" . UCI World Tour . Union Cycliste Internationale . Archived from the original on 4 January 2014 . Retrieved 9 January 2013 .