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52nd Olympia's Tour - 2.5
Netherlands, May 15-23, 2004
2003 results Stage List Preview Start List Past winners
The Stages
- Prologue - May 15: Den Bosch ITT, 7 km
- Stage 1 - May 16: Den Bosch-Den Bosch, 141 km
- Stage 2 - May 17: Den Bosch-Wateringen, 157 km
- Stage 3 - May 18: Wateringen-Nunspeet, 185 km
- Stage 4 - May 19: Surhuisterveen-Veendam, 93 km
- Stage 5 - May 19: Veendam ITT, 27.5 km
- Stage 6 - May 20: Veendam-Tiel, 232 km
- Stage 7 - May 21: Tiel-Ossendrecht, 160 km
- Stage 8 - May 22: Ossendrecht-Buchten, 200 km
- Stage 9 - May 23: Geleen-Buchten, 202 km
Rabobank favourites for Olympia's Tour
The 52nd Olympia's Tour starts this year with a 7 kilometre prologue in Den Bosch on May 15, finishing 9 days later in Buchten. The race, classified as a UCI 2.5 stage race, will see 16 teams take part: half from the Netherlands and half from other countries. And if recent form is anything to go by, the Rabobank TT3 will start as the outright favourites.
Currently occupying the first four positions on GC in the U23 Thüringen-Rundfahrt, as well as finishing 1-2-3 in the U23 Rund um den Henninger Turm and putting three riders in the crucial 17 man break in the first stage of the Tour de la Manche (besides numerous other successes this year), Rabobank possesses an incredible depth of talent and will be hard to beat. Racing on Dutch soil with two time trials programmed in the 10 stages will further help their cause.
Rabobank's competition will come from Dutch teams Van Vliet-EBH, Van Hemert-Eurogifts, Team Moser, Löwik-Tegeloko, Bert Story-Piels, Apac and Axa, and foreign teams Perutina Ptuj, Angelin Travel, Marco Polo, Rosso Sport, Beveren 2000, Flanders-Afin.com, Team PH and a Russian National Team.
The organisers have placed an age limit of 27 on participants in this year's tour, in order to make the race a real test of up and coming riders.
Start list
Rabobank TT III van Hemert-Eurogifts
1 Thomas Dekker (Ned) 9 Jeroen Boelen (Ned)
2 Mathieu Heijboer (Ned) 10 Kenny van Hummel (Ned)
3 Koen de Kort (Ned) 11 Johnny Hoogerland (Ned)
4 Jukka Vastaranta (Fin) 12 Vincent van Rijn (Ned)
5 Bas Giling (Ned) 13 Roy Curvers (Ned)
6 Kai Reus (Ned) 14 John Sulkers (Ned)
7 Michiel Elijzen (Ned) 15 Marvin van der Pluijm (Ned)
8 Rory Sutherland (Aus) 16 Robbert van der Stelt (Ned)
Lowik - Tegeltoko Perutnina Ptuj TT III
17 Maarten Lenferink (Ned) 27 Matej Marin (Slo)
18 Piet Rooyakkers (Ned) 28 Matija Kvasina (Slo)
19 Tom Veelers (Ned) 29 Aldo Ino Ilesic (Slo)
20 Roel de Vries (Ned) 30 Tomislav Danculovic (Slo)
21 Peter van den Berg (Ned) 31 Gregor Gazvoda (Slo)
22 Peter Olde Dubbelink (Ned) 32 Alessandro Brendolin (Slo)
23 Martijn Stougje (Ned)
24 Arne Hassink (Ned)
AXA Pro-Cycling Van Vliet-EBH advocaten
33 Jos Lucassen (Ned) 41 Rick Flens (Ned)
34 Arno Wallaard (Ned) 42 Martijn Maaskant (Ned)
35 Niek Voskamp (Ned) 43 Dirk Bellemakers (Ned)
36 Pascal Hermes (Ned) 44 Richard Slabbekoorn (Ned)
37 Peter Mohlmann (Ned) 46 Thomas Berkhout (Ned)
38 Peter van Agtmaal (Ned) 47 Dennis Smit (Ned)
39 Mathias Schröger (Ned) 48 Matthijs Delen (Ned)
Angelin Travel-RO St.Petersburg Bert Story - Piels
49 Evgeniy Popov (Rus) 57 Niki Terpstra (Ned)
50 Stanislav Belov (Rus) 58 Germ v.d. Burg (Ned)
51 Dmitri Kozontchouk (Rus) 59 Fulco van Gulik (Ned)
52 Sergey Lazarev (Rus) 60 Arne Kornegoor (Ned)
54 Sergey Firsanov (Rus) 61 Jasper Lenferink (Ned)
55 Danil Komkov (Rus) 62 Coen Loos (Ned)
56 Alexey Artemov (Rus) 63 Sierk-Jan de Haan (Ned)
64 Reinier Honig (Ned)
Beveren 2000 Team Rosso Sport
65 Mario Ickx (Bel) 73 Sebastian Drenker (Ger)
66 Kenny Lisabeth (Bel) 75 Serge Herz (Ger)
67 Olivier Kaisen (Bel) 76 Roland Mittendorf (Ger)
68 Anton Wouters (Bel) 78 Vitaliy Merts (Kaz)
69 Jasper Melis (Bel)
70 Tony Goossens (Bel)
71 David Mares (Bel)
72 Dwight Desaever (Bel)
Moscow APAC Cycling Team
81 Maxim Karpachev (Rus) 89 Bertil Klootwijk (Ned)
82 Andrei Pchelkin (Rus) 90 Adriaan Helmantel (Ned)
83 Sergey Poluhin (Rus) 91 Folkert de Haan (Ned)
84 Ivan Terenin (Rus) 93 Paul Sneeboer (Ned)
85 Viatcheslav Vilkov (Rus) 94 Harm Bronkhorst (Ned)
86 Vladimir Tikhonov (Rus) 95 Ronald Schur (Ned)
96 Sieger Haakma (Ned)
Setpoint-Marco Polo team Flanders - Afin.com
97 Habte Weldesimon (Eri) 105 Alex Coutts (GBr)
98 Felix Rohrbach (Ger) 106 Manuel Toldo (Bel)
99 Benjamin Peter Robson (Ned) 107 Geoffrey Coupe (Bel)
100 Cory Lange (Can) 109 Greg Germer (USA)
101 Craig John Thomson (NZl) 111 Daniel Lloyd (GBr)
102 Chi Yin Leung (HKg)
103 Timothy Wilson (Aus)
Moser - Albert Heijn Team PH Cycling ApS
113 Peter Mazur (Pol) 121 Mads Christensen (Den)
114 Frank Kwanten (Ned) 122 Matti Breschel (Den)
115 Wouter Mol (Ned) 123 Andreas Finnerup (Den)
116 Jochem Nannes (Ned) 124 Anders Lund (Den)
117 Bas Waaijer (Ned) 125 Rasmus Lehrmann (Den)
118 Floris Goesinnen (Ned) 126 Nicki Olsen (Den)
119 Arnoud van Groen (Ned) 127 Kristoffer Nielsen (Den)
128 Martin Pedersen (Den)
Past winners
Year First Second 2003 Joost Posthuma (Ned) Yoeri Beyens (Bel) 2002 Angelo van Melis (Ned) Hans Dekkers (Ned) 2001 Not held 2000 Jan Van Velzen (Ned) Tom Hoedemakers (Ned) 1999 Marcel Duijn (Ned) Mathew Hayman (Aus) 1998 Matthé Pronk (Ned) Marcel Duijn (Ned) 1997 Remco van der Ven (Ned) John van den Akker (Ned) 1996 Cristiano Citton (Ita) Peter Rogers (Aus) 1995 Danny Nelissen (Ned) Hendrik van Dijk (Ned) 1994 Henk Vogels (Aus) Godert de Leeuw (Ned) 1993 Servais Knaven (Ned) M. van der Vliet (Ned) 1992 Servais Knaven (Ned) Leon van Bon (Ned) 1991 Ad Tak (Ned) Erik Dekker (Ned) 1990 Wilco Zuiderwijk (Ned) R. Startman (Ned) 1989 Thomas Liese (DDR) Maarten den Bakker (Ned) 1988 D. Meier (DDR) Carsten Wolf (DDR) 1987 J. Bol (Ned) Eddy Schurer (Ned) 1986 B. Dittert (DDR) John Talen (Ned) 1985 John Talen (Ned) P. Steevenhage (Ned) 1984 A. Saitov (USSR) F. Boden (DDR) 1983 M. Hering (DDR) G. Schipper (Ned) 1982 Gerrit Solleveld (Ned) A. Krasnov (USSR) 1981 G. Schipper (Ned) Gerrit Solleveld (Ned) 1980 O. Logvin (USSR) V. Dedenov (USSR) 1979 Jos Lammertink (Ned) Ad Wijnands (Ned) 1978 A. Hassink (Ned) Jan van Houwelingen (Ned) 1977 A. Hassink (Ned) Jos Lammertink (Ned) 1976 Leo van Vliet (Ned) A. Hassink (Ned) 1975 Hans Langerijs (Ned) André Gevers (Ned) 1974 Roy Schuiten (Ned) A. Dekkers (Ned) 1973 F. den Hartog (Ned) A. van der Broek (Ned) 1972 F. Schür (Ned) Jan Spetgens (Ned) 1971 Cees Priem (Ned) Jan Aling (Ned) 1970 F. Schür (Ned) Jo van der Pol (Ned) 1969 P. Legierse (Ned) P. van der Kruys (Ned) 1968 Leen de Groot (Ned) N. Bakker (Ned) 1967 Cees Zoontjes (Ned) M. Wagtmans (Ned) 1966 Jan van der Horst (Ned) P. Heijnig (Ned) 1965 Harrie Steevens (Ned) Dies Kosten (Ned) 1964 Cor Schuuring (Ned) Jos van der Vleuten (Ned) 1963 J. Dries (Bel) J. Stevens (Bel) 1962 Henk Nijdam (Ned) A. den Hartog (Ned) 1961 Mik Snijder (Ned) Henk Nijdam (Ned) 1960 Gerard Wesseling (Ned) N. Walravens (Ned) 1959 Huub Zilverberg (Ned) Joop van der Putten (Ned) 1958 Ab van Egmond (Ned) Piet Steenvoorden (Ned) 1957 A. Roks (Ned) J. Huyssoon (Ned) 1956 Cees van der Zande (Ned) Leo van der Brand (Ned) 1955 P. Kooiman (Ned) Krijn Post (Ned) 1927 R. Wölke (Ger) Adrianus Braspenninx (Ned) 1910 A. Bellersen (Ned) G. Fran (Ned) 1909 Chris Kalkman (Ned) G. van Staveren (Ned) Past winners by Mario Stiehl, www.world-of-cycling.com
