Lieuwe Westra

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Lieuwe Westra Road cycling
Lieuwe Westra (2015)
Lieuwe Westra (2015)
To person
Nickname Ut Beest
Date of birth September 11, 1982
nation NetherlandsNetherlands Netherlands
discipline Street
End of career 2016
Team (s)
2006–2008
2009–2013
2014–2016 		KrolStonE Continental Team
Vacansoleil-DCM
Astana Pro Team
Most important successes
2016 - overall ranking 3 days De Panne
2012 - Overall ranking Tour of Denmark
Last updated: January 15, 2017

Lieuwe Westra (born September 11, 1982 in Mûnein ) is a former Dutch cyclist .

Athletic career

Westra started his international career in 2006 with the KrolStonE Continental Team . His first victory in a stage race hors categorie came at the Tour de Picardie 2009 . In 2012 he won a stage near Paris-Nice for the Professional Continental Team Vacansoleil-DCM and thus his first race in the UCI WorldTour . In 2012 and 2013 he became the Dutch time trial champion.

Westra joined the UCI WorldTeam Astana in 2014 and won stages in the Tour of Catalonia and the Critérium du Dauphiné . On the cobblestone stage of the 2014 Tour de France , he was the most important helper of the future overall winner, Vincenzo Nibali, and was awarded the red number on his back . In 2016 he won the overall ranking of the Three Days of De Panne .

After cycling

In January 2017, Lieuwe Westra surprisingly announced the end of his sports career. As a reason for his resignation, he gave legal disputes with his manager and his ex-brother-in-law. The media speculated that Westra was suffering from depression .

In an interview with the Dutch television channel NOS in July 2017, Westra reported on his fight against severe depression. Attempts to stop his medication and race again have not been successful. He told Omrop Fryslân that he would emigrate to Australia in September 2017 and marry his girlfriend from there.

In his autobiography Die Bestie - das Radsportlerleben von Lieuwe Westra , which will be published in spring 2018, Westra confessed to having faked illnesses during his career in order to obtain special permits for the use of doping substances , in particular cortisone , through so-called therapeutic use exemptions . He denied the use of EPO or blood doping .

In 2019 Westra returned from Australia with his Australian wife and opened a hotel for cycle tourists in Calpe, Spain .

successes

2007

2008

2009

2011

2012

2013

2014

2016

Grand Tour placements

Grand Tour 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016
Maglia Rosa Giro d'Italia - - - - - - - -
Yellow jersey Tour de France - - 128 DNF DNF 79 77 -
Red jersey Vuelta a España 87 - - - DNF - - -
Legend: DNF: did not finish , abandoned or withdrawn from the race due to timeout.

Web links

Commons : Lieuwe Westra  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sam Dansie: Westra . In: Procycling , German edition . December, 2015, p. 70 ff .
  2. ↑ Westra ends his career and causes confusion. In: rad-net.de. January 10, 2017, accessed January 10, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Cycling News: Westra's retirement announcement sparks confusion and concern. In: Cyclingnews.com. January 9, 2017, accessed January 11, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Koersen kon gewoon niet meer voor depressieve Westra. In: nos.nl. July 8, 2017, Retrieved July 14, 2017 (Dutch).
  5. ↑ Lieuwe Westra gaat naar Australië emigreren - Omrop Fryslân. In: omropfryslan.nl. July 11, 2017. Retrieved July 14, 2017 .
  6. ↑ Westra admits the use of TUEs to improve performance. In: radsport-news.com. April 29, 2018. Retrieved April 29, 2018 .
  7. ^ Lieuwe Westra zet een hostel op voor wielertoeristen in Spanje. July 12, 2019, accessed on October 25, 2019 (West Frisian).
  8. ^ Nieuwe start voor Lieuwe Westra in Spanje. In: video.eurosport.nl. August 25, 2019, accessed October 25, 2019 (Dutch).
personal data
SURNAME Westra, Lieuwe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH September 11, 1982
PLACE OF BIRTH Mûnein