Koen de Kort

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Koen de Kort Road cycling
Koen de Kort (2015)
Koen de Kort (2015)
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Date of birth September 8, 1982
nation NetherlandsNetherlands Netherlands
discipline Street
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Current team Trek-Segafredo
function driver
Last updated: December 31, 2016

Koen de Kort (born September 8, 1982 in Gouda ) is a Dutch cyclist .

Career

Koen de Kort began his international career in 2002 at Rabobank TT3 , the junior team of the “big” Rabobank team. In late summer 2003 he drove as a trainee at Rabobank , but stayed with the farm team for another year . In 2004 he won the U23 event in Paris-Roubaix and won the pair time trial Grand Prix Eddy Merckx together with Thomas Dekker . At the Tour de l'Avenir 2005 he was able to win a stage.

In 2005, de Kort received his first regular contract with a ProTeam, the Spanish Liberty Seguros-Würth Team . In 2008 he switched to the Dutch Professional Continental Team Skil-Shimano and came third in the Dutch time trial championship.

From 2014, de Kort drove in the same teams as John Degenkolb and became his "right hand", so drove the Degenkolb sprints. For the 2017 season, the two drivers switched together with Team Trek-Segafredo .

Private

De Kort spent numerous training periods in Australia , where he met his Australian wife, with whom he lives in Andorra . According to his own statements, he speaks English , Catalan and Spanish more often than Dutch .

Palmarès

2004

2005

Grand Tour placements

Grand Tour 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
Maglia Rosa Giro d'Italia 124 - - - - - - 78 - - - - - -
Yellow jersey Tour de France - - - 111 - - 103 138 92 73 - 70 78 125
Red jersey Vuelta a España - - - - - 68 85 - DNF 64 96 - -
Legend: DNF: did not finish , abandoned or withdrawn from the race due to timeout.

Teams

Web links

Commons : Koen de Kort  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ John Degenkolb and Koen De Kort to join Trek-Segafredo in 2017. In: treksegafredo.com. August 12, 2016, accessed December 31, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Edward Pickering: Double Dutch . In: Procycling , German edition . September, 2017, p. 100 ff .
personal data
SURNAME Kort, Koen de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH September 8, 1982
PLACE OF BIRTH Gouda cheese