Marc Wauters
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| Personal information | |
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| Full name | Marc Wauters |
| Nickname | De Soldaat / The Soldier[1] |
| Date of birth | February 23, 1969 |
| Country | Belgium |
| Team information | |
| Current team | Retired |
| Professional team(s) | |
| 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998-2006 |
Lotto-Super Club Lotto Lotto-Caloi WordPerfect Novell Lotto-Isoglass Lotto-Mobistar Rabobank |
| Major wins | |
| 2x Grand Prix des Nations 1x Paris-Tours |
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Marc Wauters (born February 23, 1969 in Hasselt, Belgium) is a former Belgian cyclist who was professional from 1991 until 2006. The 2004 Olympian, nicknamed The Soldier was a member of the Rabobank cycling team of the UCI ProTour since 1998 and had to end his career several weeks short because of a broken collarbone which he suffered during a training on 20 September 2006.[2]
Wauters participated at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney and at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens where he took part in both the road race and the time trial without any success.[3][4] In his early career, between 1991 and 1996 he won several of the smaller road races in The Netherlands and Belgium he was cycling in. The only exception to this was his win in the 5th stage of the 1995 Ruta del Sol.[5]
In 1997 and 1998 Wauters didn't win a single race, although he became 7th at the World Cycling Championships 1998, his highest position in this event during his career. From 1999 on after winning the GP Eddy Merckx he started achieving wins again. In this year he also won Paris-Tours, 2 stages in the Tour de Luxembourg plus the overall ranking and the overall classification in the Rheinland-Pfalz Rundfahrt. Trying to defend his title in Rheinland-Pfalz he won 3rd stage in 2000. At the end of the tour he had defended his title successively. He won the GP Eddy Merckx for the second time in his career in 2001. His Tour de France stage win in the same year turned out to be his last win in his career outside of Belgium. Wauters was known as a worker in the peloton and didn't win much, but helped his team mates achieving decent results. Meanwhile he developed himself into one of Belgium's best time trial specialists, winning the Belgium championships in 2002, 2003 and 2005. At the 2004 World Championships he finished on a 7th position.[6]
On 15 October 2006 a memorial race will be held in Zolder, Belgium to wave Wauters officially goodbye from the sport.[2]
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[edit] Tour de France
Wauters started in a total of 10 Tour de France editions, finishing in Paris eight times. His highest final ranking was 43rd in 2000.[7] The year after, during the 2001 Tour de France Wauters won the second stage, held from Calais to Antwerp. He was part of a breakaway containing 16 cyclists together with teammate Erik Dekker. Wauters got away from the group together with Arnaud Pretot who he beat in the final sprint. Because of his decent result in the prologue two days prior in Dunkerque he was wearing the yellow jersey for a day, before losing it to Stuart O'Grady.[8]
- 1993 - 107th
- 1994 - 92nd
- 1996 - 124th
- 1999 - did not finish in Paris
- 2000 - 43rd
- 2001 - winner stage 2, did not finish in Paris
- 2002 - 91st
- 2003 - 115th
- 2004 - 112th
- 2005 - 140th
[edit] Major achievements
- 1987: 1st in Belgian junior time trial championships
- 1991: 1st in Liedekerkse Pijl
- 1994: 1st in Ronde van Limburg
- 1994: 1st in Ster van Zwolle
- 1994: 1st in Zottegem - Dr Tistaertprijs
- 1995: 1st in 5th stage Ruta del Sol
- 1996: 1st in Sint-Truiden Criterium
- 1999: 1st in GP Eddy Merckx
- 1999: 1st in Paris-Tours
- 1999: 1st overall Rheinland-Pfalz Rundfahrt
- 1999: 1st in 1st stage Tour de Luxembourg
- 1999: 1st in 4th stage Tour de Luxembourg
- 1999: 1st overall Tour de Luxembourg
- 2000: 1st in Peer Criterium
- 2000: 1st in 3rd stage (B) Rheinland-Pfalz Rundfahrt
- 2000: 1st overall Rheinland-Pfalz Rundfahrt
- 2001: 1st in GP Eddy Merckx
- 2001: 1st in 2nd stage Tour de France
- 2002: 1st in Belgian time trial championships
- 2003: 1st in Belgian time trial championships
- 2004: 1st in Kortrijk Criterium
- 2005: 1st in Belgian time trial championships
- 2006: 1st in Peer Criterium
- 2006: 1st in 's Gravenwezel Criterium
| Riders on Rabobank |
| Mauricio Alberto Ardila Cano | Michael Boogerd | Jan Boven | Graeme Brown | Erik Dekker | Thomas Dekker | Theo Eltink | Juan Antonio Flecha | Óscar Freire | Bram de Groot | Mathew Hayman | Pedro Horrillo | Aleksandr Kolobnev | Gerben Löwik | Marc de Maar | Denis Menchov | Grischa Niermann | Joost Posthuma | Michael Rasmussen | Kai Reus | Niels Scheuneman | Roy Sentjens | Rory Sutherland | Jukka Vastaranta | Thorwald Veneberg | Marc Wauters | Pieter Weening |
| Manager |
| Theo de Rooij |
[edit] External links
[edit] References
- ^ Marc Wauters - de Soldaat, Dewielersite.net
- ^ a b Abrupt einde aan carrière Wauters, nos.nl, 20 September 2006
- ^ Sydney 2000 results cycling, espn.go.com, 27 September 2000
- ^ Athens 2004 results cycling, news.bbc.co.uk, 14 August 2004
- ^ Marc Wauters - Belangrijke overwinningen, cyclebase.nl
- ^ Uitslagen van Marc Wauters, Dewielersite.net
- ^ The Tour since 1903, past results for Marc WAUTERS (BEL), letour.fr
- ^ Tour de France : Local hero Wauters to wear yellow jersey, tcm.ie breaking news, 9 July 2001
