Joost Posthuma

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**Joost Posthuma**
Personal information

Full name	Joost Posthuma
Date of birth	March 8, 1981 (age 26)
Country	Netherlands
Height	1.89 m
Weight	76 kg
Team information
Current team	Rabobank
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Professional team(s)
2004-	Rabobank
Major wins
GP Jef Scherens(2005) Paris-Nice, 1 stage

Infobox last updated on:
January 9, 2007

Joost Posthuma (8 March 1981 in Hengelo) is a Dutch professional road bicycle racer. He rides on the UCI ProTour for the Rabobank professional cycling team. He is known for his time-trialling and he wore the white jersey for the best young rider at the 2006 Tour de France after the stage 1 prolougue but lost is after the 1st road stage, after a rival got in a breakaway and got bonus seconds on the road.

[edit] Major achievements

2006 — Rabobank

14th, Overall, Paris-Nice
- 2nd, Best Young Rider Classification
- 2nd, Stage 5
6th, Overall, Eneco Tour of Benelux
- 3rd, Prologue
30th, Overall, Tour de Pologne
- After Stage 6, Mountains Classification Jersey
85th, Overall Tour de France
- 8th, Best Young Rider Classification
- After Prologue, Best Young Rider Jersey

2005 – Rabobank

1st, GP Jef Scherens
1st, Stage 4, Paris-Nice

2004 – Rabobank

Circuit des Mines overall and stage 8

2003

1st Olympia's Tour
1st Tour de Normandie prologue

[edit] External links

Official Website (in Dutch)

Riders on Rabobank
Mauricio Alberto Ardila Cano \| Michael Boogerd \| Jan Boven \| Graeme Brown \| Thomas Dekker \| Theo Eltink \| Juan Antonio Flecha \| Rick Flens \| Óscar Freire \| Robert Gesink \| Bram de Groot \| Mathew Hayman \| Pedro Horrillo \| Dmitri Kozontchuk \| Sebastian Langeveld \| Gerben Löwik \| Marc de Maar \| Denis Menchov \| Koos Moerenhout \| Grischa Niermann \| Joost Posthuma \| Michael Rasmussen \| Kai Reus \| Leon van Bon \| Max van Heeswijk \| Thorwald Veneberg \| William Walker \| Pieter Weening
Manager
Theo de Rooij