Lars Anthonius Johannes Boom, born on 30 December 1985 in Vlijmen, is a Dutch cyclist best known as a cyclo-cross and mountain bike racer who also raced professionally on the road between 2004 and 2019. He won the cyclo-cross world championship in 2008, becoming the second rider after Radomír Šimůnek to win the world title in all categories, and he was Dutch elite cyclo-cross champion every year from 2007 to 2012. He rode for Rabobank and its junior and continental teams, and later for Astana. He was Under 23 world time trial champion in 2007, won a stage of the Vuelta a España in 2009 and, in 2014, won the fifth stage of the Tour de France over wet cobblestones.
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Lars Anthonius Johannes Boom (born 30 December 1985) is a professional cyclo-cross and mountain bike racing cyclist from the Netherlands.
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Lars Anthonius Johannes Boom (born 30 December 1985) is a professional cyclo-cross and mountain bike racing cyclist from the Netherlands.
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He has also competed professionally in road racing, having raced between 2004 and 2019.
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and the elite champion from 2007 to 2012.
Competed In: Tour de France, Career, Rabobank 2014
In 2014 Boom won the fifth stage of the Tour de France, a stage marked by difficulty due to wet conditions and significant sections of cobblestones.
Competed In: Vuelta a España, Career, Rabobank 2009
In his first Vuelta a España, he was part of a break of 12 riders in the 15th stage.
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