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| Full name | Mario Aerts | ||
| Born | 31 December 1974 Belgium |
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| Height | 1.82 m | ||
| Weight | 68 kg | ||
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| Current team | Lotto-Belisol | ||
| Discipline | Road | ||
| Role | Rider | ||
| Professional team(s) | |||
| 1996–1997 1998–2002 2003–2004 2005– |
Vlaanderen 2002 Lotto-Mobistar Team Telekom Davitamon-Lotto |
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| Infobox last updated on 28 January 2007 |
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Mario Aerts (born 31 December 1974 in Herentals, Belgium) is a professional road bicycle racer since 1997. He has since shifted residence to Molenstede and currently rides for Lotto-Belisol, and has done so since 2005 under the team's various names.
He has been a professional cyclist since 1997 and has ridden in four different teams. During this time he has raced in the Tours de France, the Giro d'Italia, and the Vuelta. In the 2007 cycling season, he finished in these three major stage races in cycling. He is only the 25th racer in the history of cycling to achieve this.
He has overall won GP d'Isbergues in 1996, Circuit Franco Belge in 2001, Giro della Provincia di Lucca in 2001, and most notably La Flèche Wallonne in 2002; he has not won a professional race since. In June 2011, he announced his retirment as a professional cyclist at the end of the year, citing heart problems as the major cause.
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