Michael Boogerd

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Michael Boogerd
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Personal information
Full nameMichael Boogerd
NicknameBoogey
Born (1972-05-28) 28 May 1972 (age 51)
The Hague, the Netherlands
Height1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Weight62.5 kg (138 lb; 9 st 12 lb)
Team information
Current teamRetired
DisciplineRoad
RoleRider
Rider typeClassics specialist
Professional team
1993–2007 WordPerfect–Colnago–Decca
Major wins
Grand Tours
Tour de France
2 individual stages (1996, 2002)

Stage Races

Paris–Nice (1999)

Single-Day Races and Classics

National Road Race Championships (1997, 1998)
Amstel Gold Race (1999)
Brabantse Pijl (2001, 2003)
Giro dell'Emilia (1999)

Michael Boogerd (born 28 May 1972) is a Dutch former professional road bicycle racer. He was one of the leaders of a generation of Dutch cyclists in the late 1990s and early 2000s, together with teammate Erik Dekker and female cyclist Leontien van Moorsel.

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Career

Boogerd was born in The Hague, and began his professional career in 1994, joining WordPerfect. In 1995 the team changed name to Novell, before Rabobank in 1996 became main sponsor and name for the team. Boogerd stayed with the team his entire career.

His speciality were hilly classics like Liège–Bastogne–Liège, La Flèche Wallonne and the Amstel Gold Race in the Ardennes week and the Lombardian races in the Fall, as well as mountain-stages. He has won two stages in Tour de France (1996, 2002) as well as the Amstel Gold Race and Paris–Nice. He has been Dutch Champion three times, in 1997, 1998 and in 2006. In addition to these major victories, Boogerd scored a large number of podium finishes in his favorite spring classics, which gave him a reputation in the Netherlands of being 2nd or 3rd more often than winning - a notion he dismissed in a 2007 interview looking back at his career.

In the 1998 Tour de France, Boogerd finished 5th overall in the General classification, his highest finish ever in the Tour de France. Boogerd was also fined 1250 Swiss Francs for not wearing his national champion jersey in the prologue of that year. [1] His main result in the 2005 Tour de France was on stage 15, where he finished 4th, 57 seconds behind stage winner, George Hincapie. Also in the Tour de France 2005, he was punished with twenty seconds at Stage 9 of the race. In the 2006 Tour de France, Boogerd's role was to support Rabobank team leader Denis Menchov in the Alps and Pyrenees. He rode exceptionally well helping his team captain to 6th overall and Michael Rasmussen to the Polka Dot jersey.

In the 2007 Tour de France Boogerd rode, again, very well. This time his teammate Michael Rasmussen was the leader of the race until the latter was fired after the last stage in the Pyrenees. On the Thursday before the start of this Tour, Boogerd infused himself with water in the early morning, before the UCI agents could arrive. His hematocrit level namely was 50, "on the edge of the edge". [2] During the Tour, Boogerd and Thomas Dekker used cortisone (Diprofos) under a fake attest every day, and administered eight times 2000 entities of Dynepo. [2]

Boogerd ended his career in 2007, with a 12th place in the World Championship road race in Stuttgart. His planned last race was the 2007 Giro di Lombardia, but a fall in the weeks before made him unable to participate. [3]

After his active career, Boogerd has done freelance promotional activities for Rabobank, and is frequently seen or heard on TV during live coverage of major races, both on Dutch and Belgian television.

Boogerd was appointed team manager of Team Roompot, a UCI Professional Continental cycling team launching in 2015. [4]

Doping

Michael Boogerd Michael Boogerd 2007.jpg
Michael Boogerd

Allegations that Boogerd used performance-enhancing drugs were made since at least 2008, when Bernhard Kohl, who had finished third in the 2008 Tour de France but was stripped of that honor after testing positive for CERA, a variant of EPO [5] accused his manager Stefan Matschiner. Matschiner, in turn, named a number of athletes whom he had supplied with drugs and blood transfusions, including Boogerd (whose name appeared in Matschiner's files [6] ). Until early 2013, Boogerd continued to deny. [7] He finally admitted, in a television interview on 6 March 2013 (seen by nearly a million viewers [8] ), to having used EPO, blood transfusions and cortisone from 1997 to 2007. [9] [10] In October 2014, he was approached by the Belgian federation, allegedly to offer him to shorten his proposed ban in exchange for naming other dopers and he answered this: "The Belgian federation had the same proposal as the Dutch Doping Authority had. I will be suspended for a long period, or I will have to talk about other people. I refuse to do that. I rather be suspended for life". [11] In January 2016 he received a two-year suspension and his results from 2005 to 2007 were annulled. [12]

Career achievements

Major results

1996
1st Stage 6 Tour de France
1997
1st MaillotHolanda.PNG Road race, National Road Championships
1st Profronde van Heerlen
1998
1st MaillotHolanda.PNG Road race, National Road Championships
4th Amstel Gold Race
5th Overall Tour de France
1999
1st Jersey white.svg Overall Paris–Nice
1st Stage 5
1st Amstel Gold Race
1st Giro dell'Emilia
1st Gran Premio Bruno Beghelli
2001
1st Brabantse Pijl
1st Setmana Catalana de Ciclisme
9th Amstel Gold Race
10th Overall Tour de France
2002
1st Stage 16 Tour de France
1st Stage 6 Ronde van Nederland
1st Peperbus Profspektakel
3rd Amstel Gold Race
2003
1st Brabantse Pijl
2nd Amstel Gold Race
2004
2nd Amstel Gold Race
Voided results from 1 January 2005 to 31 December 2007. [13]
2005
2nd Amstel Gold Race
3rd Liège–Bastogne–Liège
6th Overall Tour de Pologne
7th Overall Tour of the Basque Country
2006
1st MaillotHolanda.PNG Road race, National Road Championships
1st Peperbus Profspektakel
3rd Amstel Gold Race
4th Züri–Metzgete
5th Overall Tirreno–Adriatico
5th Liège–Bastogne–Liège
8th Giro di Lombardia
2007
1st Peperbus Profspektakel

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

Grand Tour 1995199619971998199920002001200220032004200520062007
Jersey pink.svg Giro d'Italia ——————— 17 —————
Jersey yellow.svg Tour de France — 31 16 5 56 DNF 10 12 32 74 24 12 12
Jersey gold.svg Vuelta a España 42 —— 49 ——————— DNF —
Legend
—Did not compete
DIS Disqualified
DNF Did not finish

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Sporting positions
Preceded by Dutch National Road Race Champion
1997–1998
2006 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Winner of the Catalan Week
1998
2001		Succeeded by
Preceded by Winner of Paris–Nice
1999		Succeeded by
Preceded by Winner of the Amstel Gold Race
1999 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Winner of the Brabantse Pijl
2001
2003		Succeeded by
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