Michiel Elijzen

Michiel Elijzen

To person
Date of birth	August 31, 1982
nation	Netherlands
discipline	Street
Driver type	Time trial
To the team
Current team	Omega Pharma Lotto
function	Sports director
Societies)
2002-2005	Rabobank Continental
Team (s)
2006–2007 2008 2009–2010	Cofidis, le Crédit en Ligne Rabobank Omega Pharma-Lotto
Last updated: June 5, 2011

Michiel Elijzen (born August 31, 1982 in Culemborg ) is a former Dutch cyclist and current sports director .

Career

Even in his time as a junior driver, Elijzen was able to achieve a number of successes, such as overall victory at the Stern von Süd-Limburg, winning the Tour de Lorraine or a third place in the Dutch time trial championships for U-23 drivers.

Michiel Elijzen joined the farm team of the Dutch professional team Rabobank in 2002 . He achieved his first podium finishes at the Zuidkempense Pijl in Belgium and in the prologue of the Lleida tour. In 2003 he also showed his strengths on the mountain when he finished second in the mountain time trial of the Tour des Pyrénées . In 2004 he won the U-23 race Omloop of the Vlaamse Gewesten and achieved, among other things, the national runner-up in the U-23 individual time trial. The following year also brought further successes with a total of five placements among the top three, including a third place in the national time trial championships of the elite and a stage win at the Triptyque des Monts et Châteaux, also in the time trial.

At the end of the 2005 season he left Rabobank and drove as a professional for the French ProTeam Cofidis from 2006 . He showed up in the ProTour, among other things, on his home tour , the ENECO Tour . A year later Elijzen celebrated his first victory as a professional cyclist on this tour when he won the prologue. A month later he was also successful in the pair time trial Duo Normand together with Bradley Wiggins . At the Dutch time trial championships, he had just narrowly missed the title as runner-up.

For the 2008 season he returned to the Rabobank team, where he could not bring out any results. After only a year he left the team to sign for Silence-Lotto in Belgium as a helper. In his first season there he missed stage wins at the Delta Tour Zeeland , where he was sixth overall, and the Tour de l'Ain as second, and was also able to achieve two more podium finishes. At the ENECO Tour he finished 18th overall.

In the 2010 season Elijzen contested his first three-week tour of the country with the Giro d'Italia . He was able to help his team-mate Matthew Lloyd to win the mountain classification and finished eighth in the mass sprint of the 18th stage. Finally he reached the finish in Verona as 111th . At the end of the 2010 season he ended his career as a professional cyclist at the age of just 29. From the 2011 season he took over the position of sports director in the Omega Pharma-Lotto team .

successes

2007

• Prologue ENECO Tour
• Duo Normand (with Bradley Wiggins )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ velonation.com

Web links

• Michiel Elijzen on cyclingarchives.com