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| Full name | Tom Boonen |
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| Born | (1980-10-15) 15 October 1980
Mol, Belgium |
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| Height | 1.92 m (6 ft 3+1⁄2 in) |
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| Weight | 82 kg (181 lb; 12 st 13 lb) |
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| Current team | Retired |
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| Discipline | Road |
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| Role | Rider |
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| Rider type | Classics specialist
Sprinter |
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| 2002 | U.S. Postal Service |
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| 2003–2017 | Quick-Step–Davitamon |
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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)
- London–Surrey Classic (2016)
Other
- Vélo d'Or (2005)
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Tom Boonen (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈtɔm ˈboːnə(n)]; born 15 October 1980) is a Belgian former road bicycle racer, who competed as a professional between 2002 and 2017 for the U.S. Postal Service and Quick-Step Floors teams and a professional racing driver who currently competes in Belcar, having previously competed in the NASCAR Whelen Euro Series. Boonen won the 2005 UCI World Road Race Championships, and was a single-day road specialist with a strong finishing sprint. He won the cycling monuments Paris–Roubaix four times and the Tour of Flanders three times, among many other prestigious victories, such as prevailing five times in the E3 Harelbeke, winning six stages of the Tour de France and winning the Overall title of the Tour of Qatar four times.