Kris Boeckmans
.jpg) Boeckmans at the 2013 Le Samyn. | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Kris Boeckmans |
| Born |
13 February 1987 Malle, Belgium |
| Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) |
| Weight | 72.5 kg (160 lb) |
| Team information | |
| Current team | Lotto-Soudal |
| Discipline | Road |
| Role | Rider |
| Rider type | Sprinter |
| Amateur team(s) | |
| 2007 | CLC Team Ingelmunster |
| 2008–2009 | Team Davo |
| 2009 | Silence-Lotto (stagiaire) |
| Professional team(s) | |
| 2010–2011 | Topsport Vlaanderen-Mercator |
| 2012–2013 | Vacansoleil-DCM |
| 2014– | Lotto-Belisol |
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Infobox last updated on 3 January 2014 | |
Kris Boeckmans (born 13 February 1987) is a Belgian professional road bicycle racer who rides for UCI ProTeam Lotto-Soudal.[1]
Born in Malle, Boeckmans has competed as a professional since the second half of the 2009 season, competing for the Silence-Lotto team as a stagiaire. He joined Topsport Vlaanderen-Mercator for the start of the 2010 season, remaining with the team until the end of 2011, when he joined the Vacansoleil-DCM squad for the 2012 season.[2] Boeckmans made his Grand Tour début at the 2012 Tour de France, where he was earmarked as one of the squad's main sprint contenders, along with Kenny van Hummel; Boeckmans took his first top ten placing on stage 4, when he finished eighth on the stage.[3]
After two years with Vacansoleil-DCM, Boeckemans left the team at the end of the 2013 season,[4] to join Lotto-Belisol.[1]
Palmarès
- 2007
- 2nd Zellik–Galmaarden
- 2008
- 1st Provincial Under-23 Road Race Championships
- 1st GP Stad Vilvoorde
- 1st Stage 1b Vuelta a Navarra
- 5th Overall Tour de Berlin
- 1st Stage 1
- 7th ZLM Tour
- 2009
- 1st European Under-23 Road Race Championships
- 1st Overall Triptyque des Monts et Châteaux
- 1st Stage 2b
- 1st Schaal Sels-Merksem
- 1st Stage 2 Vuelta a Navarra
- 2nd Overall Ronde van Antwerpen
- 1st Stages 1a (ITT) & 3
- 2nd Brussel–Zepperen
- 2nd Paris–Tours Espoirs
- 3rd Provincial Under-23 Road Race Championships
- 4th GP Raymond Impanis
- 5th Kattekoers
- 2010
- 1st Stage 5 Ster Elektrotoer
- 2nd Overall Driedaagse van West-Vlaanderen
- 1st Stage 3
- 2nd Nokere Koerse
- 7th Scheldeprijs
- 8th Omloop van het Waasland
- 8th Nationale Sluitingsprijs
- 9th Wanzele-Lede
- 10th Dwars door Drenthe
- 10th Grand Prix de Denain
- 2011
- 3rd Münsterland Giro
- 4th Puivelde Koerse
- 6th Sparkassen Giro Bochum
- 9th Omloop Gemeente Melle
- 2012
- 2nd Le Samyn
- 2nd Nokere Koerse
- 2013
- 2nd Le Samyn
- 5th Schaal Sels-Merksem
- 6th Halle–Ingooigem
- 2015
- 1st Le Samyn
- 1st Nokere Koerse
- 3rd Overall Étoile de Bessèges[5]
- 1st Stage 1[6]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Boeckmans reinforces the team". Lotto-Belisol (Belgian Cycling Project). 8 August 2013. Retrieved 8 August 2013.
- ↑ Haake, Bjorn (18 August 2011). "Vacansoleil hires Kris Boeckmans". VeloNation (VeloNation LLC). Retrieved 4 July 2012.
- ↑ Benson, Daniel (4 July 2012). "Greipel wins Tour de France stage in Rouen". Cycling News (Future Publishing Limited). Retrieved 4 July 2012.
- ↑ "Vacansoleil-DCM Pro Cycling Team (VCD) – NED". UCI World Tour. Union Cycliste Internationale. Retrieved 16 January 2013.
- ↑ "Jungels wins Étoile de Bessèges in final time trial". cyclingnews.com. 8 February 2015. Retrieved 9 February 2015.
- ↑ "Boeckmans wins stage 1 at Étoile de Bessèges". cyclingnews.com. 5 February 2015. Retrieved 9 February 2015.
External links
Media related to Kris Boeckmans at Wikimedia Commons
- Official website
- Vacansoleil-DCM profile
- Kris Boeckmans profile at Cycling Archives
- Cycling Quotient profile
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