Koen de Kort

Koen de Kort

De Kort at the 2008 Dreidaagse van West-Vlaanderen
Personal information
Full name	Koen de Kort
Born	(1982-09-08) 8 September 1982 Gouda, Netherlands
Height	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Weight	70 kg (150 lb)
Team information
Current team	Giant–Alpecin
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Rider type	All-rounder
Professional team(s)
2002–2004	Rabobank GS3
2005–2006	Liberty Seguros–Würth
2007–2008	Astana
2009–	Skil–Shimano
Infobox last updated on 23 July 2013

Koen de Kort (born 8 September 1982) is a Dutch professional cyclist riding for the UCI ProTeam Giant–Alpecin.^[1]

Biography

He was born in Gouda and grew up in Liempde. 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.^[2] In 2007 De Kort joined the Astana. Following the positive tests for heterologous blood doping by team members Alexander Vinokourov and Andrey Kashechkin, Astana did not have much chance to compete in 2007 and was limited in 2008. 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. He left Astana at the end of the 2008 season, and joined the Skil-Shimano team.

Major results

References

External links

Media related to Koen de Kort at Wikimedia Commons

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