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Full name | Rob Peeters | ||||||||||||||
Born | Geel, Belgium | 2 July 1985||||||||||||||
Height | 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in) | ||||||||||||||
Weight | 75 kg (165 lb) | ||||||||||||||
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Current team | Retired | ||||||||||||||
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Role | Rider | ||||||||||||||
Professional teams | |||||||||||||||
2007–2009 | Landbouwkrediet–Tönissteiner | ||||||||||||||
2009–2013 | Telenet–Fidea | ||||||||||||||
2014–2018 | Vastgoedservice–Golden Palace | ||||||||||||||
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Rob Peeters (born 2 July 1985) is a Belgian former professional racing cyclist, who primarily competed in the cyclo-cross discipline of the sport. In January 2012, he finished second at the UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships. He also competed in road bicycle racing, winning the mountains classification at the 2015 Ster ZLM Toer. [1]
His cousin Yannick Peeters and uncle Wilfried Peeters were also professional cyclists.
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