Lars Boom

Lars Boom

Lars Boom (2015)
To person
Full name	Lars Anthonius Johannes Boom
Date of birth	December 30, 1985
nation	Netherlands
discipline	Road , cross , MTB
Team (s)
2006–2008 2009–2014 2015–2016 2017–2018 2019	Rabobank Continental Rabobank / Belkin-Pro Cycling Team Astana Pro Team Team Lotto NL-Jumbo Roompot-Charles
Most important successes
Cyclocross World Champion 2008 a stage Vuelta a España 2009 a stage Tour de France 2014
Last updated: December 29, 2019

Lars Anthonius Johannes Boom (born December 30, 1985 in Vlijmen ) is a Dutch cyclist .

Career

At first, Boom was particularly successful in cyclocross . At the Cyclocross World Championships in 2003 he won the junior race. After finishing second in the U23 class behind Zdenek Stybar at the 2006 World Championships , he won the 2007 U23 World Championships . He repeated this success in 2008 in the elite race ahead of Zdenek Stybar and Sven Nys .

He drove on the road for the Rabobank Continental Team between 2006 and 2008 and was world champion in the individual time trial during this time . In 2008 he became the Dutch road champion in both time trial and road racing . In 2009 he moved to ProTeam Rabobank . In his first year with this team, he first won the Tour of Belgium and with a stage of the Vuelta a España, his first ProTour race. In the following years he mainly won stages in tours and the overall ranking of the Tour of Britain 2011. In the Tour de France 2014 he won the 5th stage as a soloist over the cobblestones .

In December 2017, it was announced that Boom had to undergo an operation for arrhythmias in January after winning the overall standings of the Tour of Britain 2017 .

On the second stage of the Tour of Norway 2018, Boom was disqualified for assault. The racing jury assumed that Boom had hit his opponent Preben Van Hecke in the face 30 kilometers from the finish. Van Hecke announced that it was a slap on the hip. Boom stressed that he reacted "hot-headed" after Van Hecke almost brought him down. He was banned for one month with immediate effect at the beginning of July 2018.

Boom ended his career as a road driver after an unsuccessful 2019 season with the Roompot-Charles team after they could no longer find sponsors. After that he only competed in mountain bike races and gravel bike races.

In June 2020 boom was Perfomance Manager at the UCI Women's World Team CCC Liv , of the team and in particular the Erstaustragung the women's version of Paris-Roubaix should prepare.

successes

Cyclocross 2000/2001 Dutch Champion (Juniors) 2001/2002 Dutch Champion (Juniors) 2002/2003 Dutch Champion (Juniors) World Champion (Juniors) 2003/2004 Dutch Champion (U23) 2004/2005 European Champion (U23) Dutch Champion (U23) 2005/2006 Grote Prijs Sven Nys Dutch Champion (U23) 2006/2007 Dutch master World Champion (U23) 2007/2008 UCI World Cup, Pijnacker Grote Prijs Montferland, Zeddam Azencross , Wuustwezel- Loenhout Dutch master UCI World Cup, Liévin UCI World Cup, Hoogerheide World Champion 2008/2009 UCI World Cup, Pijnacker Jaarmarktcross Niel UCI World Cup, Nommay Dutch master Centrumcross Surhuisterveen 2009/2010 Dutch master 2010/2011 Grand Prix Julien Cajot, Leudelange UCI World Cup, Heusden-Zolder Dutch master 2011/2012 Dutch master

Street 2005 Overall ranking and a stage Triptyque des Barrages Overall ranking Tour de la Somme 2006 Overall ranking and one stage Volta ao Santarem Overall ranking and one stage of the Triptyque des Monts et Châteaux 2007 Overall ranking and two stages of the Tour de Bretagne Omloop of the Kempen three stages of the Olympia's Tour Dutch Champion - Individual Time Trial (U23) World Champion - Individual Time Trial (U23) 2008 two stages Tour de Bretagne Overall ranking and two stages of the Olympia's Tour Overall standings, one stage and team time trial Volta a Lleida three stages Circuito Montañés Dutch champion - road race a stage Vuelta Ciclista a León Dutch champion - individual time trial 2009 Overall ranking Tour of Belgium a stage Vuelta a España 2010 Paris-Nice prologue Grote Prijs Jef Scherens 2011 Prologue Tour of Qatar Team time trial Tirreno – Adriatico Prologue Critérium du Dauphiné Overall standings and two stages Tour of Britain 2012 a stage of the ZLM Toer Overall ranking Eneco Tour 2013 one stage Tour Méditerranéen one stage Tour du Haut Var Overall ranking and a stage of the ZLM Toer Scoring Eneco Tour 2014 a stage Tour de France 2015 one stage tour of Denmark 2017 one stage BinckBank Tour Overall standings and one stage Tour of Britain

Grand Tours placements

Grand Tour	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019
Giro d'Italia	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Tour de France	-	130	DNF	-	105	97	DNF	-	-	-	-
Vuelta a España	55	-	-	107	-	-	-	-	-	153	-

Legend: DNF: did not finish , abandoned or withdrawn from the race due to timeout.

Web links

Commons : Lars Boom  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Lars Boom in the ProCyclingStats.com database
• Lars Boom in the Radsportseiten.net database
• Lars Boom in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ radsport-news.com of July 9th, 2014: Boom triumphs on 5th stage of the tour - Nibali extends the lead, Contador falls behind, Froome is out
2. ↑ Cardiac arrhythmia: Boom needs an operation. In: radsport-news.com. December 23, 2017. Retrieved December 23, 2017 . 
3. ↑ Disqualified: Boom beats Van Hecke. In: radsport-news.com. May 17, 2018. Retrieved May 18, 2018 . 
4. ↑ UCI suspends Boom for four weeks because of a blow to Van Hecke. In: radsport-news.com. July 3, 2018, accessed July 3, 2018 . 
5. ↑ The ten most prominent resignations of 2019. In: radsport-news.com. December 29, 2018, accessed December 29, 2019 . 
6. ^ ^{A b} Lars Boom signs on as CCC-Liv performance manager. In: cyclingnews.com. June 23, 2020, accessed on June 23, 2020 .