Tom Boonen

Tom Boonen

Boonen at the 2015 Omloop Het Nieuwsblad
Personal information
Full name	Tom Boonen
Nickname	Tommeke Tornado Tom Bom van Balen
Born	(1980-10-15) 15 October 1980 (age 36) Mol, Belgium
Height	1.92 m (6 ft 4 in)
Weight	82 kg (181 lb)
Team information
Current team	Quick-Step Floors
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Rider type	Classics specialist Sprinter
Professional team(s)
2002	U.S. Postal Service
2003–	Quick-Step–Davitamon
Major wins
Grand Tours Tour de France Points classification (2007) 6 individual stages (2004, 2005, 2007) Vuelta a España 2 individual stages (2008) Stage races Tour of Belgium (2005) Tour de Picardie (2004) Tour of Qatar (2006, 2008, 2009, 2012) World Ports Classic (2012) One-day races and Classics World Road Race Championships (2005) National Road Race Championships (2009, 2012) Tour of Flanders (2005, 2006, 2012) Paris–Roubaix (2005, 2008, 2009, 2012) E3 Harelbeke (2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2012) Gent–Wevelgem (2004, 2011, 2012) Scheldeprijs (2004, 2006) Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne (2007, 2009, 2014) Dwars door Vlaanderen (2007) Paris–Brussels (2012, 2016) Münsterland Giro (2015) Rund um Koln (2015) London-Surrey Classic (2016)
Medal record Road bicycle racing Representing  Belgium World Championships 2005 Madrid Road Race 2016 Doha Road Race Representing Quick-Step Floors World Championships 2012 Valkenburg Team Time Trial 2015 Richmond Team Time Trial 2014 Ponferrada Team Time Trial

Grand Tours

Stage races

One-day races and Classics

Tom Boonen (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈtɔm ˈboːnə(n)]; born 15 October 1980) is a Belgian professional road bicycle racer who won the 2005 world road race championship. He is a member of the Quick-Step Floors team, and is a single-day road specialist with a strong finishing sprint. He won the cycling monuments Paris–Roubaix 4 times and the Tour of Flanders 3 times, among many other prestigious victories, such as prevailing 5 times in the E3 Harelbeke, winning 6 stages of the Tour de France and winning the Overall title of the Tour of Qatar 4 times.

At the start of 2002 Boonen rode for U.S. Postal Service, finishing third in Paris–Roubaix after an early breakaway. Fellow Belgian Johan Museeuw had escaped to a solo victory. Team captain George Hincapie crashed in a slippery section of the course leaving Boonen to ride for himself. Boonen's performance led Museeuw – his childhood hero – to declare Boonen his successor.

Boonen said US Postal did not give him enough chances to ride for himself. Towards the end of the year he said he would leave, despite being under contract, and joined Quick-Step–Davitamon at the start of 2003. The 2003 season, however, did not go well, with lacklustre performance due to fatigue and knee injury. Museeuw was team leader for the spring classics.

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