Tom Boonen

Tom Boonen

Boonen at the 2015 Omloop Het Nieuwsblad
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 España 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) Münsterland Giro (2015) London–Surrey Classic (2016) Other Vélo d'Or (2005)
Medal record Men's road bicycle racing Representing  Belgium World Championships 2005 Madrid Road Race 2016 Doha Road Race Representing Omega Pharma–Quick-Step (2012, 2014) Etixx–Quick-Step (2015) World Championships 2012 Valkenburg Team Time Trial 2015 Richmond Team Time Trial 2014 Ponferrada Team Time Trial

Tom Boonen (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈtɔm ˈboːnə(n)]; born 15 October 1980) is a Belgian former road bicycle racer,^[1] who competed as a professional between 2002 and 2017 for the U.S. Postal Service and Quick-Step Floors teams and a professional racing driver who currently competes in Belcar, having previously competed in the NASCAR Whelen Euro Series. Boonen won the 2005 UCI World Road Race Championships, and was a single-day road specialist with a strong finishing sprint. He won the cycling monuments Paris–Roubaix 4 times and the Tour of Flanders 3 times, among many other prestigious victories, such as prevailing 5 times in the E3 Harelbeke, winning 6 stages of the Tour de France and winning the Overall title of the Tour of Qatar 4 times.^[2]