Lars Boom

Lars Anthonius Johannes Boom (born 30 December 1985) is a professional cyclo-cross and mountain bike racing cyclist. He has also competed professionally in road racing, between 2004 and 2019.[3]

Lars Boom
Lars Boom at the 2015 Tour de France
Personal information
Full nameLars Anthonius Johannes Boom
Born (1985-12-30) 30 December 1985
Vlijmen, the Netherlands
Height1.91 m (6 ft 3 in)
Weight75 kg (165 lb)
Team information
Current teamPrivateer
Discipline
  • Cyclo-cross
  • Road (retired)
  • Mountain biking
RoleRider
Rider type
  • Cyclo-cross
  • Time-trialist/Classics specialist (road)
  • Marathon (MTB)
Amateur teams
2002–2003Rabobank Junior
2020–Privateer
Professional teams
2004–2008Rabobank GS3
2009–2014Rabobank[1]
2015–2016Astana
2017–2018LottoNL–Jumbo
2019Roompot–Charles[2]
Major wins
Grand Tours
Tour de France
1 individual stage (2014)
Vuelta a España
1 individual stage (2009)

Stage races

Tour of Britain (2011, 2017)
Eneco Tour (2012)
Tour of Belgium (2009)
Ster ZLM Toer (2013)

Single-day races and Classics

World Cyclo-Cross Championships (2008)
National Road Race Championships (2008)
National Time Trial Championships (2008)
National Cyclo-cross Championships (2007–2012)

Born in Vlijmen, Netherlands, Boom has also previously competed for Rabobank and their junior and continental teams over two spells with the team, as well as Astana. Boom won the cyclo-cross world championships in 2008. He has also been the Dutch national cyclo-cross champion in his discipline from 2001 to 2012 – junior cyclo-cross champion from 2002 to 2003, under-23 champion from 2004 to 2006, and the elite champion from 2007 to 2012.

Career

Rabobank Continental (2003–2008)

During the 2005–2006 cyclocross season, Boom who just turned 20 years of age, scored several wins including a win ahead of Sven Nys in the Grand Prix Sven Nys[4] as well as the win in the Vlaamse Druivenveldrit Overijse after Bart Wellens was disqualified for having kicked a spectator.[5] Boom was beaten by Zdeněk Štybar in a sprint for the Under 23 World Championships[6] but returned a year later to dominate the race and to win the Under 23 World Champion jersey.[7]

For the 2006–2007 season, Boom asked and received special dispensation to ride the Dutch Elite Cyclo Cross championships and became Champion of the Netherlands.[8] In addition to Boom's successes in cyclo-cross, he has achieved success on the road and has won several stage races such as the Tour de Bretagne.[9] In September 2007, Boom became Under 23 World Time Trial champion beating Russian Mikhail Ignatiev.[10] In November 2007, Boom won the Gerrit Schulte Trophy as the Dutch cyclist of the year for his two World Championship wins.[11] In the 2007–2008 Cyclo-cross season, Boom won a World Cup event in Pijnacker, a Gazet van Antwerpen event in Loenhout and then became Dutch Elite National cyclo-cross champion for the second time. After that, he also won the World Cup races in Liévin and Hoogerheide. He went into the world championships in Treviso 2008 as big favourite and did not fail, he won the race and became the second rider after Radomír Šimůnek to win the world title in all categories (Junior, Espoir and Elite).

During the 2008 road season, Boom continued his progression on the road despite a successful cyclocross season. On his third day of racing on the road, he won the third stage of the Tour de Bretagne in Fréhel.[12] Boom also won the sixth stage time trial.[13] Boom then dominated the oldest stage race in the Netherlands – the Olympia's Tour.[14] After competing in two stage races in Spain in which he won the first and won three stages in the second, Boom returned to the Netherlands where he won the Dutch national road race championships for elite riders.[15][16] He would win the national time trial title several weeks later after which he announced that he intended on switching focus from cyclo-cross to road racing after the 2008/09 cyclo-cross season.[17]

Rabobank (2009–2014)

In 2009 Boom won the Tour of Belgium after a strong performance uphill, and in the final Time Trial. In his first Vuelta a España, he was part of a break of 12 riders in the 15th stage. He rode away on the final climb and took the stage, making him the first Dutchman to win a stage in a Grand Tour since 2005.

Boom started the 2010 season by winning the Dutch national cyclocross championships. This was only his second and last cross of the season he rode. In the prologue of Paris–Nice he bested time-trial giants Jens Voigt, Levi Leipheimer, Alberto Contador and David Millar. During the winter of 2010–2011 Boom made a short return to cyclocross, he won the World Cup race in Zolder and won for the fifth consecutive time the Dutch national cyclocross championships. In 2011 he was again the fastest in a prologue of a World Tour event: the Critérium du Dauphiné. Later that year he won two stages and the general classification in the Tour of Britain.

Boom won the Dutch Cyclocross Championship for the sixth consecutive time in January 2012, extending his consecutive streak record.[18]

In 2014 Boom won the fifth stage of the Tour de France, a stage marked by difficulty due to wet conditions and significant sections of cobblestones. The stage was his first win of 2014. It was exactly nine years ago that a Dutch rider, Pieter Weening, won a Tour de France Stage.[19]

Astana (2015–2016)

Subsequently, Boom announced that he would be leaving Belkin and joining Astana for the 2015 and 2016 seasons.[20]

Coming into the Tour de France, Boom's notable results of the 2015 campaign were fourth in Paris–Roubaix[21] and sixth in the Tour of Flanders.[22] There was some controversy at the beginning of the Tour, as Boom's cortisol levels were too low in his blood per MPCC rules to participate in a cycling event, but the Astana management decided to field him anyway.[23] Boom blamed his asthma inhaler for his low cortisol levels.[24]

LottoNL–Jumbo (2017–2018)

After two seasons with Astana, Boom announced in August 2016 he would be joining LottoNL–Jumbo.

In January 2018 Boom had a successful heart surgery to treat a cardiac arrhythmia. Boom returned to racing for the Paris–Nice in March.[25]

In May 2018, Boom was expelled from the Tour of Norway for aggression against Belgian rider Preben Van Hecke. Video images showed some kind of incident where Van Hecke had to brake and Boom was upset about this. He overtook Van Hecke and punched him and attacked his helmet during the race.[26] On 2 July, the UCI suspended him for a month, missing the Tour de France as a result.[27]

Retirement from road racing

In December 2019, Boom announced that he was retiring from road racing after being unable to find a contract for 2020, due to his Roompot–Charles team folding at the end of the season.[3]

Major results

Cyclo-cross

2000–2001
1st National Cadet Championships
2001–2002
1st National Junior Championships
2002–2003
1st UCI World Junior Championships
1st National Junior Championships
2003–2004
1st National Under-23 Championships
1st Cyclo-cross Ruddervoorde (under-23)
2004–2005
1st UEC European Under-23 Championships
1st National Under-23 Championships
1st Cyclo-cross Amersfoort
1st Cyclo-cross Veldhoven
1st Vlaamse Druivenveldrit Overijse
3rd Overall Under-23 Superprestige
1st Cyclo-cross Ruddervoorde
2nd Bollekescross
3rd Superprestige Gieten
2005–2006
1st National Under-23 Championships
1st Grand Prix Sven Nys
1st Grand Prix Adri van der Poel (under-23)
2nd UCI World Under-23 Championships
3rd Superprestige Gieten
2006–2007
1st UCI World Under-23 Championships
1st National Championships
UCI Under-23 World Cup
1st Grand Prix Adri van der Poel
2nd Grand Prix Nommay
2nd Grand Prix Sven Nys
2007–2008
1st UCI World Championships
1st National Championships
1st Veldrit Pijnacker
1st Cyclo-cross Liévin
1st Grand Prix Adri van der Poel
3rd Cyklokros Tábor
3rd Duinencross Koksijde
3rd Superprestige Gieten
3rd Kersttrofee Hofstade
4th Overall Gazet van Antwerpen Trophy
1st Azencross
2nd Niel Jaarmarkt Cyclo-cross
2nd Grand Prix Rouwmoer
3rd Sluitingsprijs Oostmalle
2008–2009
1st National Championships
1st Niel Jaarmarkt Cyclo-cross
2nd Cyclo-cross Koppenberg
5th Overall UCI World Cup
1st Veldrit Pijnacker
1st Grand Prix Nommay
2nd Memorial Romano Scotti
2009–2010
1st National Championships
2010–2011
1st National Championships
1st Grand Prix Erik De Vlaeminck
2011–2012
1st National Championships

Road racing

2004
1st Stage 2 Triptyque Ardennais
3rd Overall Circuit de Lorraine
2005
1st Young rider classification Triptyque des Barrages
1st Stage 2 Grand Prix de la Somme
2nd Overall Hessen-Rundfahrt
10th Grand Prix de la ville de Pérenchies
2006
1st Overall Volta ao Distrito de Santarém
1st Stage 3 (ITT)
1st Overall Le Triptyque des Monts et Châteaux
1st Stage 2
1st Stage 3a (ITT) Thüringen Rundfahrt der U23
2nd Time trial, National Under-23 Road Championships
2007
1st Time trial, UCI Under-23 Road World Championships
1st Time trial, National Under-23 Road Championships
1st Overall Tour de Bretagne
1st Young rider classification
1st Prologue & Stage 5
1st Omloop der Kempen
1st Prologue Tour de Normandie
3rd Overall Volta ao Distrito de Santarém
3rd Overall Tour du Poitou-Charentes
4th Overall Olympia's Tour
1st Prologue, Stages 4 & 6 (ITT)
6th Grand Prix de la Somme
2008
National Road Championships
1st Road race
1st Time trial
1st Overall Olympia's Tour
1st Stages 7 (ITT) & 8
1st Overall Volta a Lleida
1st Stage 8
Circuito Montañés
1st Stages 1, 5a (ITT) & 7
Tour de Bretagne
1st Stages 3 & 6 (ITT)
1st Stage 4 Vuelta Ciclista a León
2009
1st Overall Tour of Belgium
1st Stage 15 Vuelta a España
7th Overall Sachsen Tour
2010
1st Grote Prijs Jef Scherens
1st Prologue Paris–Nice
3rd Road race, National Road Championships
5th E3 Prijs Vlaanderen
6th Overall Eneco Tour
2011
1st Overall Tour of Britain
1st Stages 3 & 6
1st Prologue Critérium du Dauphiné
1st Prologue Tour of Qatar
1st Stage 1 (TTT) Tirreno–Adriatico
9th Gent–Wevelgem
10th Omloop Het Nieuwsblad
2012
1st Overall Eneco Tour
National Road Championships
2nd Road race
2nd Time trial
2nd Overall Ster ZLM Toer
1st Stage 3
2nd Ronde van Zeeland Seaports
5th Road race, UCI Road World Championships
6th Paris–Roubaix
2013
1st Overall Ster ZLM Toer
1st Stage 4
1st Profronde van Heerlen
1st Profronde van Zevenbergen
1st Points classification Eneco Tour
1st Stage 2 (ITT) Tour Méditerranéen
2nd Overall Tour du Haut Var
1st Stage 2
3rd Profronde van Oostvoorne
4th Binche–Chimay–Binche
2014
1st Stage 5 Tour de France
2nd Overall Eneco Tour
2015
1st Stage 1 Danmark Rundt
4th Paris–Roubaix
6th Tour of Flanders
2016
6th E3 Harelbeke
2017
1st Overall Tour of Britain
1st Stage 5 (ITT)
4th Veenendaal–Veenendaal Classic
8th Overall BinckBank Tour
1st Stage 5
2019
4th Le Samyn
8th Clásica de Almería

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

Grand Tour 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018
Giro d'Italia Did not contest during career
Tour de France 130 DNF 105 97[28] DNF
Vuelta a España 55 107 153
Legend
Did not compete
DNF Did not finish

Monuments results timeline

This table shows Boom's results in the five cycling monuments.

Monuments results timeline
Monument 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
Milan–San Remo 94 112 32 51 25
Tour of Flanders 76 37 DNF 11 93 6 11 97 DNF
Paris–Roubaix OTL 12 6 14 37 4 DNF DNF 74
Liège–Bastogne–Liège DNF
Giro di Lombardia 100

Mountain bike

2017
1st National XC Marathon Championships
2018
1st UEC European Beach Race Championships
1st National XC Marathon Championships
2019
2nd National XC Marathon Championships

See also

References

  1. "Former Rabobank (RAB) – NED". UCI World Tour. Union Cycliste Internationale. Retrieved 3 January 2013.
  2. Kerkhof, Michael (5 October 2018). "Lammertink en Van Poppel maken Roompot-Charles compleet" [Lammertink and Van Poppel complete Roompot-Charles]. Fiets (in Dutch). New Skool Media. Retrieved 24 January 2019.
  3. "Lars Boom calls an end to road career". Cyclingnews.com. Future plc. 11 December 2019. Retrieved 23 December 2019.
  4. "Results 7th Grote Prijs Sven Nys". Cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 17 December 2007.
  5. "Vlaamse Druivenveldrit Overijse Belgium Results". Cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 17 December 2007.
  6. "Stybar wins cat and mouse Espoir race". Cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 17 December 2007.
  7. "Dutch elite champion easily beats U23 field". Cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 17 December 2007.
  8. "Boom booms in cyclo-cross". Cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 17 December 2007.
  9. "Boasson Hagen and Boom share the honours". Cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 17 December 2007.
  10. "Holland's Boom takes Under 23 title after two-man fight". Cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 17 December 2007.
  11. "Boom: Dutch cyclist of the year". Cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 17 December 2007.
  12. "He's back! Like a Boomerang". Cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 3 July 2008.
  13. "It's Boom again and Poilvet stays on top". Cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 3 July 2008.
  14. "Olympia's Tour 2008 for Lars". Lars Boom.nl. Archived from the original on 3 August 2008. Retrieved 3 July 2008.
  15. "Lars Boom pakt ook nationale titel op de weg" (in Dutch). Elsevier.nl. Archived from the original on 1 August 2012. Retrieved 3 July 2008.
  16. "Lars Lars Boom Nederlands wielerkampioen" (in Dutch). Gelderlander.nl. Retrieved 3 July 2008.
  17. "Boom to concentrate on road after '08". Cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 19 December 2008.
  18. "Boom wins Dutch 'cross title". 8 January 2012. Retrieved 18 June 2012.
  19. "Boom wins cobblestone stage as Nibali extends GC lead, Froome crashes out". VeloNews. Competitor Group, Inc. 9 July 2014. Retrieved 24 July 2014.
  20. Hood, Andrew (1 August 2014). "Giro points champ Bouhanni to Cofidis; Boom to Astana". VeloNews. Retrieved 3 August 2014.
  21. "Degenkolb wins Paris-Roubaix". Cyclingnews.com. Future plc. 12 April 2015. Archived from the original on 15 April 2015. Retrieved 29 June 2015.
  22. "Kristoff conquers Tour of Flanders". Cyclingnews. 10 April 2015. Retrieved 29 June 2015.
  23. Hood, Andrew (4 July 2015). "Astana says Boom will start Tour". VeloNews. Competitor Group, Inc. Retrieved 4 July 2015.
  24. "Boom blames asthma inhaler for low cortisol levels". Cyclingnews.com. Immediate Media Company. 4 July 2015. Retrieved 4 July 2015.
  25. "Strade Bianche adds a wild card for van Aert - News Shorts".
  26. "Boom expelled from Tour of Norway after punching another rider | Cyclingnews.com". Cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 18 May 2018.
  27. "FOK.nl cookie-informatie". frontpage.fok.nl (in Dutch). Retrieved 3 July 2018.
  28. "Tour de France 2014 Jersey wearers after the stage 21".
Sporting positions
Preceded by
Koos Moerenhout
Dutch National Road Race Championships
Winner

2008
Succeeded by
Koos Moerenhout
Preceded by
Stef Clement
Dutch National Time Trial Championships
Winner

2008
Succeeded by
Stef Clement

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