Michael Boogerd
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| Personal information | |
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| Full name | Michael Boogerd |
| Nickname | Boogey |
| Born |
28 May 1972 The Hague, the Netherlands |
| Height | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) |
| Weight | 62.5 kg (138 lb; 9.84 st) |
| Team information | |
| Current team | Retired |
| Discipline | Road |
| Role | Rider |
| Rider type | Classics specialist |
| Professional team(s) | |
| 1993-2007 | WordPerfect–Colnago–Decca |
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Michael Boogerd (born 28 May 1972 in The Hague) is a Dutch former professional road bicycle racer and professional doping dealer. He was one of the leaders of a generation of Dutch cyclists in the late 1990s and early 2000s, together with teammate Erik Dekker.
Boogerd began his professional career in 1994, joining WordPerfect. In 1995 the team changed name to Novell, before Rabobank in 1996 became main sponsor and name for the team. Boogerd stayed with the team his entire career.
His nickname is the "Boogie-man". His speciality were hilly classics like Liège–Bastogne–Liège, La Flèche Wallonne and the Amstel Gold Race in the Ardennes week and the Lombardian races in the Fall, as well as mountain-stages. He has won two stages in Tour de France (1996, 2002) as well as the Amstel Gold Race and Paris–Nice. He has been Dutch Champion three times, in 1997, 1998 and in 2006. In addition to these major victories, Boogerd scored a large number of podium finishes in his favorite spring classics, which gave him a reputation in the Netherlands of being 2nd or 3rd more often than winning - a notion he dismissed in a 2007 interview looking back at his career.
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