Koos Moerenhout

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Jacobus Moerenhout Road cycling
Koos Moerenhout at the Clásica San Sebastian 2007
Koos Moerenhout at the Clásica San Sebastian 2007
To person
Nickname Koos
Date of birth 5th November 1973
nation NetherlandsNetherlands Netherlands
discipline Street
End of career 2010
Team (s)
1994
1996–1999
2000
2001–2005
2006
2007–2010 		Motorola ( Stagiaire )
Rabobank
Farm Frites
Domo-Farm Frites / Davitamon-Lotto
Phonak Cycling Team
Rabobank
Most important successes

MaillotHolanda.svg Dutch champion 2007 and 2009

Team (s) as team manager
2013–2016
2017– 		Rabobank-Liv
Hagens Berman Axeon
Team (s) as coach
2019– National road team of the Netherlands
Last updated: June 16, 2011

Jacobus Moerenhout , or Koos for short , (born November 5, 1973 in Achthuizen ) is a Dutch cycling manager, trainer and former racing cyclist .

Athletic career

Moerenhout began at the age of eight years in cycling, by the way he played some years football . At the age of 13 he decided to start at the De Hoekse Renners cycling club . In 1994 he won a stage of the Tour of Austria and was second overall. In addition to the second overall place at the Flèche du Sud in Luxembourg , he also won the Liège Tour.

From September 1994 Moerenhout drove as a stagiaire for the US professional team Motorola , in 1996 he signed a contract with the Dutch cycling team Rabobank and had his first success by winning the Circuit Franco-Belge . After a total of three victories in his first year in the elite, he won a stage of the Rhineland-Palatinate Tour the following year . In the 1998 season Moerenhout was nominated for the Tour de France for the first time . He reached Paris as 44th overall . In 1999 he won another stage in the Tour of the Basque Country .

In 2000 Moerenhout moved to Farm Frites , another Dutch team, with whom he won a stage of the Tour Down Under and shortly thereafter also competed in the Tour de Langkawi . For the first time he started at the Giro d'Italia . In the same year he started at the Olympic Games in Sydney and took part in both the time trial (26th) and the road race (task). From the 2001 season he drove for Lotto-Domo , which emerged from the Farm Frites team, and again won a stage of the Rhineland-Palatinate Tour. In 2006 Moerenhout drove for the Swiss ProTeam Phonak , which was dissolved at the end of the 2006 season.

From the 2007 season Moerenhout drove for the Dutch team Rabobank . He was twice the Dutch road racing champion (2007 and 2009). In 2010 he won a stage of the Eneco Tour . After this season he ended his active cycling career.

Moerenhout competed among the elite for a total of 17 years. During these years he started on 17 major country tours . His best placement was 15th at the 2005 Vuelta a España .

Professional

After the end of his active career, Moerenhout switched to various supervisory functions. From 2013 to 2016 he was the sporting director of the women's cycling team Rabobank-Liv and from 2017 of the U23 team Hagens Berman Axeon . In November 2018, the Dutch cycling association KNWU announced that Moerenhout had been hired as the new coach for the Dutch national road team. He will hold this position at the same time as his position at Hagens Berman Axeon .

Miscellaneous

The Koos Moerenhout Classic Everyman's Race has been held in Moerenhout's hometown of Steenbergen since 2011 .

successes

1994

1996

1997

1999

2000

2003

2007

2009

2010

Grand Tour placements

Grand Tour 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010
Maglia Rosa Giro d'Italia - - - DNF - - 52 - - - 70 - - -
Yellow jersey Tour de France - 44 - 77 - - 128 100 - 60 - 33 - 49
Red jersey Vuelta a España 65 DNF DNF - - 72 - - 14th - 42 - 36 -
Legend: DNF: did not finish , abandoned or withdrawn from the race due to timeout.

Teams

Web links

Commons : Koos Moerenhout  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Koos Moerenhout, een leven op de fiets. In: wimijpelaar.wordpress.com. October 6, 2010, accessed December 31, 2018 (Dutch).
  2. ^ Moerenhout named as Dutch national coach. In: Cycling News. November 24, 2018, accessed December 31, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Koos Moerenhout nieuwe bondscoach wegwielrennen bij elite mannen. In: internetbode.nl. November 23, 2018, accessed December 31, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Welkom bij de Koos Moerenhout Classic. In: koosmoerenhoutclassic.nl. December 31, 2018, accessed December 31, 2018 (Dutch).
personal data
SURNAME Moerenhout, Koos
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Moerenhout, Jacobus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH 5th November 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Achthuizen