Bobbie Traksel
Bobbie Traksel (born November 3, 1981 in Tiel ) is a Dutch cyclist .
Career
Bobbie Traksel won the Ronde van Vlaanderen for U23 drivers in 2000 . He then drove for Rabobank as a stagiaire , got a professional contract for the following season and stayed there until the end of the 2004 season.
2002 was his most successful year so far: He won the Dutch one-day race Veenendaal-Veenendaal and one stage each in the Ster Elektrotoer and the Saxony Tour . After that he had knee problems. In 2008 and 2010 he was able to build on his earlier successes: in 2008 he won the three days of West Flanders stage race and in 2010 the semi-classic Kuurne – Brussels – Kuurne .
In the 2014 season, Traksel ended his career as an active cyclist. In 2015 he was elected President of the newly constituted Athletes Commission of the Union Cycliste Internationale .
successes
2000
2002
- Veenendaal-Veenendaal
- a stage of Ster Elektrotoer
- a stage Saxony tour
2004
2007
- a stage Boucles de la Mayenne
2008
- Overall classification and a stage Three days of West Flanders
- a stage Vuelta a Extremadura
- a stage Olympia's Tour
2010
Teams
- 2001 Rabobank
- 2002 Rabobank
- 2003 Rabobank
- 2004 Rabobank
- 2005 MrBookmaker.com-SportsTech
- 2006 Unibet.com
- 2007 Palmans Collstrop
- 2008 P3 Transfer-Batavus
- 2009 Vacansoleil
- 2010 Vacansoleil
- 2011 Landbouwkrediet
- 2012 Landbouwkrediet-Euphony
- 2013 Champion System
- 2014 An Post-Chain Reaction (until June 4th)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bobbie Traksel elected President of the new UCI Athletes' Commission. uci.ch, December 10, 2015, accessed on December 20, 2015 (English).
Web links
- Bobbie Traksel in the Radsportseiten.net database
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Traksel, Bobbie |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch cyclist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 3rd November 1981 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tiel |