Leif Hoste

Leif Hoste (born 17 July 1977 in Courtrai) is a Belgian professional road racing cyclist since 1998. He rides on the UCI ProTour for Predictor-Lotto. His career highlights include winning two stages and the overall title at the 2006 Three Days of De Panne, the 2001 and 2006 Belgian national time trial championships, and a second place finish at the 2006 edition of the monumental one-day classic Ronde van Vlaanderen.

At the 2006 Paris-Roubaix, Hoste was disqualfied after finishing second along with Peter Van Petegem and Vladimir Gusev by the race jury for illegally riding though a closed level crossing after the train had passed through.

[edit] Major achievements

Belgium National Time Trial Champion
Three Days of De Panne
- Overall classification
- Mountains competition
- Stage 1 – Three Days of De Panne
- Stage 4 – Three Days of De Panne
2nd – Ronde van Vlaanderen
2nd, Stage 5 (ITT) – Tour de Romandie
2nd, Stage 3a – Tour of Belgium

2nd, Stage 4 – Sachsen-Tour International
3rd overall – Eneco Tour of Benelux
- 2nd, Stage 7 – Eneco Tour of Benelux
- 3rd, Stage 4 – Eneco Tour of Benelux
6th, Stage 4 – Three Days of the Panne
8th, Stage 7 – Tour of Austria

2nd overall – Ronde van Vlaanderen
2nd overall – Tour de l'Ain
- 2nd, Stage 1 – Tour de l'Ain
- 4th, Stage 3a – Tour de l'Ain
6th – Brussels-Ingooigem
6th – Druivenkoers Ovijse
8th – GP Eddy Merckx

Riders on Predictor-Lotto
Mario Aerts \| Christophe Brandt \| Dario Cioni \| Dominique Cornu \| Wim De Vocht \| Dries Devenyns \| Bart Dockx \| Cadel Evans \| Nick Gates \| Chris Horner \| Leif Hoste \| Nick Ingels \| Josep Jufré Pou \| Olivier Kaisen \| Bjorn Leukemans \| Matthew Lloyd \| Robbie McEwen \| Pieter Mertens \| Fred Rodriguez \| Bart Roesems \| Roy Sentjens \| Tom Steels \| Geert Steurs \| Greg Van Avermaet \| Jurgen Van Den Broeck \| Preben Van Hecke \| Wim Van Huffel \| Johan Van Summeren \| Wim Vansevenant
Manager
Marc Sergeant