Laurens ten Dam

Laurens ten Dam
	Laurens ten Dam 2013
To person
Date of birth	November 13, 1980
nation	Netherlands
discipline	Street
End of career	2019
	Last updated: October 22, 2019

Laurens ten Dam (born November 13, 1980 in Zuidwolde , Netherlands ) is a former Dutch cyclist .

Career

Laurens ten Dam began his career in 2002 with Rabobank TT3 , the farm team of the Rabobank professional team. In 2005 he finished fourth in the Tour of Belgium and third in the Ster Elektrotoer . In 2006 and 2007 he drove for the Belgian team Unibet.com , which received a license as a ProTeam in 2007 . In his first year there, he was only fifth in the Four Days of Dunkirk and won the time trial of the Course de la Solidarité Olympique . In 2008 he switched to the Rabobank team and won a stage of the Critérium International in 2008 and the mountain classification of the Tour de Romandie in 2009 . On his Grand Tour debut , he finished 21st in the 2008 Tour de France . He was unable to fully confirm this result in the next few years. However, he achieved his breakthrough as the overall eighth of the Vuelta a España 2012 . In the subsequent Tour de France 2012 he was 13th and 2014 ninth. At the Giro d'Italia 2017 , ten Dam was one of the helpers for overall winner Tom Dumoulin .

Ten Dam's colleague Thomas Dekker , who admitted to having used doping during his career , stated in his autobiography Among Professionals that Ten Dam was one of the few people where he was sure he would not drug.

After the end of the 2019 season, ten Dam ended his active career.

successes

2006

a stage of the Course de la Solidarité Olympique

2008

a stage Criterium International

2009

Mountain classification Tour de Romandie

Grand Tour placements

Grand Tour	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019
Giro d'Italia	-	28	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	34	35	DNF
Tour de France	21st	60	-	58	28	13	9	92	73	67	51	-
Vuelta a España	-	-	DNF	-	8th	DNF	44	-	-	-	-	-

Legend: DNF: did not finish , abandoned or withdrawn from the race due to timeout.

Teams

Individual evidence

↑ Thomas Dekker / Thijs Zonneveld: Among professionals . 2016, p. 120 f .
↑ Retirements in 2019 - goodbye to the peloton's working class heroes -. In: velonews.com. October 21, 2019, accessed October 22, 2019 .

Web links

Commons : Laurens ten Dam - collection of images, videos and audio files

Official website (English)

Laurens ten Dam in the database of Radsportseiten.net

Laurens ten Dam in the ProCyclingStats.com database

personal data
SURNAME	Dam, Laurens ten
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Dutch cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH	November 13, 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH	Zuidwolde , Netherlands

[1] Thomas Dekker / Thijs Zonneveld: Among professionals . 2016, p. 120 f .

[velonews-501917-2] Retirements in 2019 - goodbye to the peloton's working class heroes -. In: velonews.com. October 21, 2019, accessed October 22, 2019 .