Niko Eeckhout

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Niko Eeckhout
Personal information
Full name Niko Eeckhout
Nickname Rambo
Date of birth December 16, 1970 (age 36)
Country Flag of Belgium Belgium
Height 1.73 m
Weight 73 kg
Team information
Current team Chocolade Jacques
Discipline Road
Role Rider
Rider type Classics specialist, sprinter
Professional team(s)
1992-1993
1994
1995-1996
1997-1998
1999-2000
2001-2004
2005-2008		 Collstrop
Varta
Collstrop
Lotto
Palmans
Lotto
Chocolade Jacques
Major wins
Belgian Champion (2006)
Dwars door Vlaanderen (2001,2005)
Championship of Flanders (1996,1998,2000,2006)
GP Isbergues
Infobox last updated on:
February 17, 2007

Niko Eeckhout (b. Izegem, 16 December 1970) is a professional road racing cylist from Belgium. He is the 2005-2006 UCI Europe Tour series champion. He rides for Chocolade Jacques-Topsport Vlaanderen. He's the current Belgian Champion.

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[edit] Career

Niko Eeckhout started his career in 1993 in the little Collstrop-team. He was immediately a winner, altough he won little cycling races like the Championship of Flanders or the Omloop Mandel-Leie-Schelde. In 1997 and 1998 he rode for Lotto, but then he rode two years for Palmans. But Eeckhout really became a succesful cyclist when he transfered in 2001 to Lotto-Adecco. That year he won 11 races, like Dwars door Vlaanderen or de GP van Steenbergen.

But in the tow next seasons, he was less succesful. On the end of 2004, he needed to find a new team because Lotto didn't wanted him anymore. So he went to Chocolade Jacques, where he found his second youth. He started the 2005 season by winning Dwars door Vlaanderen. In that season, he even won the GP Isbergues and a stage in the Three Days of De Panne. Also next year, in 2006 he continued winning. He won the Three Days of West-Flanders and other races. But in june 2006 he won the biggest race in his career. In Antwerp he became the Belgian Champion by beating Tom Boonen and Philippe Gilbert. In total, he won in 2006 12 races. He was also the winner of the UCI Europe Tour.

[edit] Major achievements

2006

2005

2004
  • Stage win, Ster Elektrotoer
  • Ronde van Midden-Zeeland

2003

  • GP Rik van Steenbergen
  • Dwars door Vlaanderen

2001

  • Ronde van Midden-Zeeland
  • Ster van Bessèges
  • Stage win, Danmark Rundt (Tour of Denmark)
  • GP Rik van Steenbergen
  • GP Jef Scherens
2000
  • GP Rudy Dhaenens
1998
  • Championship of Flanders
1996
  • Championship of Flanders
1993
  • Omloop der Vlaamse Ardennen Ichtegem

[edit] Teams


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