Mario Aerts
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| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Mario Aerts |
| Born | 31 December 1974 Herentals, Belgium |
| Height | 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in) |
| Weight | 68 kg (150 lb) |
| Team information | |
| Current team | Retired |
| Discipline | Road |
| Role | Rider |
| Professional teams | |
| 1996–1997 | Vlaanderen 2002 |
| 1998–2002 | Lotto–Mobistar |
| 2003–2004 | Team Telekom |
| 2005–2011 | Davitamon–Lotto |
| Managerial team | |
| 2012– | Lotto–Belisol |
| Major wins | |
Stage races
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Mario Aerts (born 31 December 1974 in Herentals, Belgium) is a former professional road bicycle racer, who competed between 1996 and 2011. He competed for three teams: Vlaanderen 2002, Team Telekom and the Lotto team through various sponsorships, competing with that particular team for twelve seasons during his career. During this time, he raced in the Tours de France, the Giro d'Italia, and the Vuelta a España. In the 2007 cycling season, he finished in these three major stage races in cycling. He was only the 25th racer in the history of cycling to achieve this.
Aerts won the Grand Prix d'Isbergues in 1996, Circuit Franco Belge in 2001, the Giro della Provincia di Lucca in 2001, and most notably La Flèche Wallonne in 2002; he did not win a professional race after that. In June 2011, he announced his retirement as a professional cyclist at the end of the year, citing heart problems as the major cause.[1] After retiring he would become an assistant for the team he rode for under its present name: Lotto-Soudal.
Major results
[edit]- 1994
- 1st Stage 6 Tour de Wallonie
- 1995
- 2nd Overall Tour de Wallonie
- 1996
- 1st Grand Prix d'Isbergues
- 9th Tour du Haut Var
- 1997
- 1st
Overall Circuit Franco-Belge
- 1st
Mountains classification
- 1st
- 5th Overall Circuito Montañés
- 9th Overall Regio-Tour
- 10th Overall Tour de Wallonie
- 1998
- 2nd Le Samyn
- 6th Veenendaal–Veenendaal
- 7th Japan Cup
- 9th Gran Premio de Llodio
- 1999
- 3rd Overall Route du Sud
- 3rd La Flèche Wallonne
- 4th Overall Tour of the Basque Country
- 4th Grand Prix Breitling
- 2000
- 5th La Flèche Wallonne
- 5th GP Ouest-France
- 2001
- 1st Overall Giro della Provincia di Lucca
- 3rd Overall Rheinland-Pfalz Rundfahrt
- 4th GP Miguel Induráin
- 4th Tour du Haut Var
- 5th GP Ouest-France
- 6th Overall Paris–Nice
- 9th Züri-Metzgete
- 2002
- 1st La Flèche Wallonne
- 3rd GP Miguel Induráin
- 5th Overall Tour of the Basque Country
- 8th Overall Critérium International
- 9th Overall Paris–Nice
- 2004
- 6th Veenendaal–Veenendaal
- 2006
- 3rd Overall Settimana Internazionale di Coppi e Bartali
- 2007
- 9th Brabantse Pijl
- 2008
- 8th Road race, Olympic Games
References
[edit]- ^ Atkins, Ben (9 June 2011). "Cardiac Arrhythmia forces Mario Aerts to retire early". VeloNation. VeloNation LLC. Retrieved 5 January 2012.
External links
[edit]- Official website
- Mario Aerts at Cycling Archives (archived, or current page in French)
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