Lars Boom

Infobox Cyclist
ridername = Lars Boom

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image_caption = Lars Boom in action during the
2007 UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships (U23).
fullname = Lars Boom
nickname =
dateofbirth = birth date and age|df=yes|1985|12|30
country = NED
height = height|m=1.91
weight = convert|75|kg|lb|abbr=on|lk=on
currentteam = Rabobank
discipline = Cyclo-cross
road
role = Rider
ridertype = Cyclo-cross
time trialist
worldcuprank =
amateuryears =
amateurteams =
proyears = 2002–2003
2004–
proteams = Rabobank Junior
Rabobank CT
majorwins = flagiconUCI 2008 World Cyclo-Cross Championships
flagiconUCI 2007 World U23 Cyclo-Cross Championships
flagiconUCI 2007 World U23 Time-Trial Championships
flagiconUCI 2003 World Junior Cyclo-Cross Championships
flagicon|EUR U23 Cyclo-cross Champion (2004/05)
flagicon|NED U23 Cyclo-cross Champion (2004/05), (2005/06)
flagicon|NED 2007 U23 Time trial Champion flagicon|NED Elite Cyclo-cross Champion (2006/07), (2007/08)
flagicon|NED Elite Road Champion (2008)
flagicon|NED Elite Time Trial Champion (2008)
updated = 1 September 2008

Lars Boom (born 30 December 1985) is a professional cyclo-cross and road racing cyclist who was born in Vlijmen (Noord-Brabant) in the Netherlands. Boom rides for the Rabobank continental cycling team. Boom is the current World Champion in this discpline. He has also been the Dutch national cyclo-cross champion in his discipline since 2001 - being the Dutch Junior Cyclo-Cross champion from 2002 to 2003, Under 23 National Champion from 2004 to 2006.

Early wins

During the 2005-2006 cyclo-cross season, Boom who just turned 20 years of age, scored several wins including a win ahead of Sven Nys in the Grand Prix Sven Nys [cite web|url=http://www.cyclingnews.com/cross.php?id=cross/2006/jan06/gpsvennys06|title=Results 7th Grote Prijs Sven Nys|publisher=Cyclingnews.com|accessdate=2007-12-17] as well as the win in the Vlaamse Druivenveldrit Overijse after Bart Wellens was disqualified for having kicked a spectator. [cite web|url=http://www.cyclingnews.com/cross.php?id=cross/2005/dec05/overijse05|title=Vlaamse Druivenveldrit Overijse Belgium Results|publisher=Cyclingnews.com|accessdate=2007-12-17] Boom was beaten by Zdenek Stybar in a sprint for the Under 23 World Championships [cite web|url=http://www.cyclingnews.com/cross/2006/jan06/CXworlds06/?id=results/CXworlds062|title=Stybar wins cat and mouse Espoir race|publisher=Cyclingnews.com|accessdate=2007-12-17] but returned a year later to dominate the race and to win the Under 23 World Champion jersey. [cite web|url=http://www.cyclingnews.com/cross/2007/jan07/CXworlds07/?id=results/CXworlds072|title=Dutch elite champion easily beats U23 field|publisher=Cyclingnews.com|accessdate=2007-12-17]

Elite championship wins

For the 2006-2007 season, Boom asked and received special dispensation to ride the Dutch Elite Cyclo Cross championships and became Champion of the Netherlands. [cite web|url=http://www.cyclingnews.com/cross.php?id=cross/2007/jan07/nedchamp07|title=Boom booms in cyclo-cross|publisher=Cyclingnews.com|accessdate=2007-12-17] In addition to Boom's successes in cyclo-cross, he has achieved success on the road and has won several stage races such as the Tour de Bretagne Cycliste. [cite web|url=http://www.cyclingnews.com/road.php?id=road/2007/apr07/bretagne07/bretagne076|title=Boasson Hagen and Boom share the honours |publisher=Cyclingnews.com|accessdate=2007-12-17] In September 2007, Boom became Under 23 World Time Trial champion beating Russian Mikhail Ignatiev. [cite web|url=http://www.cyclingnews.com/road/2007//worlds07/?id=results/worlds071|title=Holland's Boom takes Under 23 title after two-man fight|publisher=Cyclingnews.com|accessdate=2007-12-17] In November 2007, Boom won the "Gerrit Schulte Trophy" as the Dutch cyclist of the year for his two World Championship wins. [cite web|url=http://www.cyclingnews.com/news.php?id=news/2007/nov07/nov27news|title=Boom: Dutch cyclist of the year|publisher=Cyclingnews.com|accessdate=2007-12-17] In the 2007-2008 Cyclo-cross season, Boom won a World Cup event in Pijnacker, a Gazet van Antwerpen event in Loenhout and then became Dutch Elite National cyclo-cross champion for the second time. After that, he also won the World Cup races in Lievin and Hoogerheide. He went into the world championships in Treviso 2008 as big favourite and didn't fail, he won the race and became the second rider after Radomír Šimůnek to win the world title in all categories (Junior, Espoir and Elite).

2008 season

During the 2008 road season, Boom continued his progression on the road despite a successful cyclocross season. On his third day of racing on the road, he won the third stage of the Tour de Bretagne cycliste in Fréhel. [cite web|url=http://www.cyclingnews.com/road.php?id=road/2008/apr08/bretagne08/bretagne083|title=He's back! Like a Boomerang|publisher=Cyclingnews.com|accessdate=2008-07-03] Boom also won the sixth stage time trial. [cite web|url=http://www.cyclingnews.com/road.php?id=road/2008/apr08/bretagne08/bretagne086|title= It's Boom again and Poilvet stays on top|publisher=Cyclingnews.com|accessdate=2008-07-03] Boom then dominated the oldest stage race in the Netherlands - the Olympia's Tour. [cite web|url=http://larsboom.nl/nieuwsboom1-eng.htm|title=Olympia's Tour 2008 for Lars |publisher=Lars Boom.nl|accessdate=2008-07-03] After competing in two stage races in Spain in which he won the first and won three stages in the second, Boom returned to the Netherlands where he won the Dutch national championships for elite riders. [cite web|url=http://www.elsevier.nl/nieuws/laatste_24_uur/artikel/asp/artnr/212544/|title=Lars Boom pakt ook nationale titel op de weg (dutch)|publisher=Elsevier.nl|accessdate=2008-07-03] [cite web|url=http://www.gelderlander.nl/sport/wielersport/3350435/Lars-Boom-Nederlands-wielerkampioen.ece|title=Lars Lars Boom Nederlands wielerkampioen (dutch)|publisher=Gelderlander.nl|accessdate=2008-07-03]

Career highlights

;2001: 1st in flagicon|NED Dutch National Cyclo-cross Championships, juniors;2002: 1st in flagicon|NED Dutch National Cyclo-cross Championships, juniors;2003: 1st in flagicon|NED Dutch National Cyclo-cross Championships, juniors: 1st in flagiconUCI Cyclo-cross World championships, juniors;2004: 1st in flagicon|NED Dutch National Cyclo-cross Championships, u23s: 3rd in overall rankings Circuit de Mines: 1st in 2nd stage Triptyque Ardennais: 1st in Cyclo-cross Ruddervoorde, u23s: 1st in European Cyclo-cross championships, u23s;2005: 1st in flagicon|NED Dutch National Cyclo-cross Championships, u23s: 2nd in overall rankings Hessen Rundfahrt: 1st in overall rankings Triptyque des Barrages, u23s: 1st in 2nd stage Tour de la Somme: 1st in Cyclo-cross Amersfoort: 1st in Cyclo-cross Veldhoven: 1st in Cyclo-cross Overijse;2006: 1st in Grand Prix Sven Nys: 1st in flagicon|NED Dutch National Cyclo-cross Championships, u23s: 1st in Grand Prix Adrie van der Poel, u23s: 2nd in Cyclo-cross World championships, u23s: 1st in 3rd stage Volta ao Distrito de Santarem: 1st in overall rankings Volta ao Distrito de Santarem: 3rd in overall rankings Ronde van Midden-Brabant: 1st in overall rankings Le Triptyque des Monts et Châteaux, u23s: 2nd in Dutch national road time trial championships, u23s;2007: 2nd in Grand Prix Sven Nys: 1st in flagicon|NED Dutch National Cyclo-cross Championships: 1st in Grand Prix Adrie van der Poel, u23s: 1st in flagiconUCI UCI Cyclo-cross World Championchips, u23s: 1st in Omloop der Kempen (1.2): 1st in flagiconUCI UCI Road World Championships Time Trial, u23s: 1st in UCI Cyclo-Cross World Cup # 3 Veldrit Pijnacker: 1st in GVA Trophy cross #5 Azencross in Cyclo-cross Loenhout: 1st prologue & 2 stages, Olympia's Tour: 1st prologue, 1 stage & overall Tour de Bretagne Cycliste: 1st prologue Tour de Normandie: 3rd on stage 4 & overall Tour du Poitou-Charentes;2008: flagiconUCI World Cyclo-Cross Champion: 1st in flagicon|NED Dutch National Cyclo-cross Championships: 1st, World Cup-races in Cyclo-cross Liévin & Grand Prix Adri van der Poel: 1st, stage 3 & stage 6 Tour de Bretagne Cycliste: 1st Overall, Stages 7 & 8, "Olympia's Tour" : 1st Overall, Stage 5, "Volta a Lleida": 1st in stage 1, 5a and 7 "Circuito Montañés": 1st in flagicon|NED Dutch National Road Race Championship: 1st, stage 4 "Vuelta Ciclista a León" : 1st in flagicon|NED Dutch National Time Trial Championship

References

External links

* [http://www.larsboom.nl/indexboom-eng.htm Official website in English]
* [http://www.dewielersite.net/db2/wielersite/coureurfiche.php?coureurid=9716 Dewielersite profile]