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Mario Aerts Personal information Full name Mario Aerts Born 31 December 1974
Belgium
Height 1.82 m Weight 68 kg Team information Current team Omega Pharma-Lotto Discipline Road Role Rider Professional team(s) 1996–1997
1998–2002
2003–2004
2005–Vlaanderen 2002
Lotto-Mobistar
Team Telekom
Davitamon-LottoMajor wins 2001 Circuit Franco Belge
2002 La Flèche WallonneInfobox last updated on
28 January 2007Mario Aerts (born 31 December 1974 in Herentals, Belgium) is a professional road bicycle racer since 1997. He has since shifted residence to Molenstede and currently rides for Omega Pharma-Lotto, and has done so since 2005 under the team's various names.
He has been a professional cyclist since 1997 and has ridden in four different teams. During this time he has raced in the Tours de France, the Giro d'Italia, and the Vuelta. In the 2007 cycling season, he finished in these three major stage races in cycling. He is only the 25th racer in the history of cycling to achieve this.
He has overall won GP d'Isbergues in 1996, Circuit Franco Belge in 2001, Giro della Provincia di Lucca in 2001, and most notably La Flèche Wallonne in 2002; he has not won a professional race since. In June 2011, he announced his retirment as a professional cyclist at the end of the year, citing heart problems as the major cause.
Palmares
- 1994
- 1st, Stage 6 Tour de Wallonie
- 1995
- 2nd Overall Tour de Wallonie
- 1996
- 1st GP d'Isbergues
- 1997
- 1st Overall Circuit Franco-Belge
- Mountains Competition
- 1999
- 3rd La Flèche Wallonne
- 3rd Overall Route du Sud
- 21st Overall Tour de France
- 2000
- 5th La Flèche Wallonne
- 28th Overall Tour de France
- 2001
- 27th Overall Tour de France
- 1st Overall Giro della Provincia di Lucca
- 2002
- 1st La Flèche Wallonne
- 2005
- 15th Overall Vuelta a España
- 2006
- 3rd Overall Settimana internazionale di Coppi e Bartali
- 2007
- 20th Overall Giro d'Italia
- 70th Overall Tour de France
- 28th Overall Vuelta a España
- 2008
- 31st Overall Tour de France
- 8th Men's Olympics road race
External links
- Official website
- Mario Aerts profile at Cycling Archives
Riders on Omega Pharma-Lotto Mario Aerts | Jan Bakelants | Adam Blythe | David Boucher | Bart De Clercq | Francis De Greef | Jens Debusschere | Kenny Dehaes | Gert Dockx | Philippe Gilbert | André Greipel | Adam Hansen | Olivier Kaisen | Sebastian Lang | Klaas Lodewyck | Maarten Neyens | Óscar Pujol | Vicente Reynès | Jürgen Roelandts | Marcel Sieberg | Jurgen Van de Walle | Jurgen Van Den Broeck | Sven Vandousselaere | Jelle Vanendert | Jussi Veikkanen | Frederik Willems | Manager: Marc Sergeant
Categories:- 1974 births
- Living people
- Belgian cyclists
- Cyclists at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Olympic cyclists of Belgium
- People from Herentals
- Belgian cycling biography stubs
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