Koen de Kort

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Koen de Kort
De Kort in front of the Liberty Serguros teambus
De Kort in front of the Liberty Serguros teambus
Personal information
Full name Koen de Kort
Date of birth September 8, 1982 (1982-09-08) (age 25)
Country Netherlands
Height 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Weight 70 kg (150 lb)
Team information
Current team Astana
Discipline Road
Role Rider
Rider type All-rounder
Professional team(s)
2002–2004
2005–2006
2007		 Rabobank TT3
Liberty Serguros-Wurth
Astana
Infobox last updated on:
September 15, 2007

Koen de Kort ( born 8 September 1982 in Gouda in The Netherlands) is a Dutch professional cyclist. He grew up in Liempde in Noord Brabant. From 2002 to 2004, he was in the development team of the Rabobank cycling team. De Kort had a promising amateur career with wins in the Under 23 version of Paris-Roubaix. In 2005, he became professional with the ProTour team Liberty Serguros-Wurth of Manolo Saiz. That year he won a stage in the 2005 Tour de l'Avenir.[1] In 2007 de Koon joined the Team Astana which as a result of teammate Alexandre Vinokourov failing a blood doping control after his win in the individual time trial of stage 13 in the 2007 Tour de France, the team withdrew itself from competition for the month of August. De Kort joined his teammates for a training camp in order to prepare for the 2007 Vuelta a España. When teammate Andrey Kashechkin also failed a blood doping control, the organisers of the Vuelta a España withdrew their invitation to the Astana cycling team and speaking to Dutch media, de Kort expressed his frustrations at not having the chance to compete after being in a similar situation in 2006 with the Liberty Serguros team.[2]

[edit] References

  1. ^ De Kort triumphs. Le Tour.fr. Retrieved on 2007-08-17.
  2. ^ Koen de Kort mag weer terug naar zijn vriendin. de Gelderlander. Retrieved on 2007-08-17.

[edit] Palmares

2004
U23 Paris-Roubaix
GP Eddy Merckx
2005
Tour de l'Avenir, stage 4

[edit] External links

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Persondata
NAME Kort, Koen de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION Road bicycle racer
DATE OF BIRTH 1982-09-08
PLACE OF BIRTH Gouda, The Netherlands
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH