Glenn D'Hollander

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Glenn D'Hollander Road cycling
Glenn D'Hollander at the Four Days of Dunkirk 2008
Glenn D'Hollander at the Four Days of Dunkirk 2008
To person
Date of birth December 28, 1974
nation BelgiumBelgium Belgium
discipline Street
Driver type Baroudeur
Team (s)
1996–1999
2000–2004
2005
2006–2007
2008–2010 		Vlaanderen 2002-Eddy Merckx
Lotto-Domo
Landbouwkrediet-Colnago
Chocolade Jacques
Omega Pharma-Lotto
Most important successes

Overall victory in the Tour de la Région Wallonne 2001

Team (s) as sporting director
2011- Topsport Vlaanderen-Ridley 2012
Last updated: January 25, 2012

Glenn D'Hollander (born December 28, 1974 in Sint-Niklaas ) is a former Belgian cyclist and current sports director .

Career

In his junior days, D'Hollander was able to attract attention as the national runner-up in 1991. In addition, he won the national title in the individual time trial the following year and in 1994 he was third in the Belgian time trial championship for amateurs . As an amateur, D'Hollander experienced his most successful season in 1995: a podium place in the one-day race Brussels-Opwijk was followed by victories at the GP Bodson and on the eighth stage of the Tour of Austria , in which he also came third in the overall classification. He was able to achieve a first, a second and a third stage position in the Triptyque Ardennaise , and he was also victorious on a section of the Tour de la Région Wallonne .

In 1996 D'Hollander became a professional at Vlaanderen in 2002 . He celebrated his first victory as a professional cyclist in the one-day race Schaal Sels . Again he was able to win a stage in the Tour of Austria . At the Tour de l'Avenir , the most important tour for young riders, he came third overall. In the following season, D'Hollander won another stage of the Tour de la Région Wallonne .

The two following years were also successful with victories at the Eurode Omloop in the Netherlands and on the first stage of the Circuito Montañés in Spain , where he also came second in the overall standings.

In 2000 he switched to the big Belgian cycling team Lotto . In the following season he won a stage at the Uniqa Classic and his third so far at the Tour de la Région Wallonne , in which this time he won the overall standings for the first time. He took third place at the Belgian championships in the individual time trial. In 2001 he also took part in his first big country tour, the Giro d'Italia , where he had to give up after the seventh stage.

He celebrated his last professional victory at the Étoile de Bessèges in 2002. After that, D'Hollander was mainly a helper at Lotto and could no longer achieve good results. He didn't succeed either when he moved to the smaller Belgian team Landbouwkrediet in 2005 . After only one year there, he joined the Chocolade Jacques team for two years . In 2007 he achieved his first podium finish in five years in the Gullegem criterion. For the 2008 season, D'Hollander finally returned to the Omega Pharma-Lotto team. Plagued by health problems, however, he was no longer able to achieve any success.

Glenn D'Hollander retired at the end of the 2010 season and became Sporting Director of the UCI Women's Team Topsport Vlaanderen-Ridley 2012 .

Trivia

D'Hollander is the brother-in-law of Greg Van Avermaet , with whom he drove at the Omega Pharma Lotto .

successes

1992
  • Belgian junior champion in the individual time trial
1995
1996
  • Winner of the tenth stage of the Tour of Austria
1997
1999
2001
2002

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ben Atkins: Topsport Vlaanderen-Ridley 2012 steps up with Grace Verbeke. Velonation, December 1, 2010, accessed December 26, 2013 .

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personal data
SURNAME D'Hollander, Glenn
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH December 28, 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Sint-Niklaas , Belgium