Jeroen Blijlevens
Dutch road bicycle racer
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Personal information | |
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Full name | Jeroen Johannes Hendrikus Blijlevens |
Nickname | Jerommeke |
Born |
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1971-12-29
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29 December 1971
(age
51)
Gilze en Rijen , the Netherlands |
Height | 1.72 m (5 ft 8 in) |
Weight | 70 kg (154 lb; 11 st 0 lb) |
Team information | |
Discipline | Road |
Role |
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Rider type | Sprinter |
Professional teams | |
1994–1999 | TVM–Bison Kit |
2000 | Team Polti |
2001 | Lotto–Adecco |
2002 | Domo–Farm Frites |
2003–2004 | BankGiroLoterij–Batavus |
Managerial teams | |
2005–2007 | Eurogifts.com |
2010–2012 | Nederland Bloeit |
2013 | Blanco Pro Cycling |
2017–2020 | WM3 Pro Cycling |
Major wins | |
Grand Tours
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Jeroen Johannes Hendrikus Blijlevens (born 29 December 1971) is a retired road bicycle racer from the Netherlands , who was a professional rider from 1994 to 2004. He most recently worked as a directeur sportif for UCI Women's WorldTeam CCC Liv , [1] and has also worked as a cycling co-commentator at Eurosport Netherlands .
Nicknamed Jerommeke , he was one of Holland's leading sprinters in the 1990s, claiming a total of 11 stage victories across the three Grand Tours ( Tour de France , Vuelta a España and Giro d'Italia ). He won a total number of 74 races in his professional career.
Biography
Blijlevens was born in Gilze en Rijen , North Brabant in 1971, as a son of a shoe sales man. In 1990, he won his first race as an amateur. [2] He scored nineteen victories as an amateur, [2] and at the end of 1993 was signed by Cees Priem for TVM–Bison Kit . [3] Blijlevens showed good results in his first years, and in 1995 was selected to ride the Tour de France , [4] where he won the fifth stage. [2] Blijlevens, not a good climber, left the race before the Alps. [5]
In 1996, Blijlevens again won a stage in the Tour de France . In 1997, he finished second to Erik Zabel in the sixth stage of the Tour de France , but when the jury disqualified Zabel for irregular sprinting, the victory was given to Blijlevens. [6] In 1998 Blijlevens won the fourth stage of the Tour . That Tour was full of doping allegations, also towards the TVM team, and as soon as the race had passed the French-Swiss border, Blijlevens left the race, as a protest against the treatments by the French police. [7]
In 1999, Blijlevens wore the pink jersey as leader of the general classification in the Giro d'Italia , after winning the third stage. [8] After the events of 1998, the TVM team was excluded from the 1999 Tour de France . The cyclists of TVM started a legal procedure to force the Tour organisers to invite them, but failed. [9] At the end of that year, Blijlevens left TVM for Team Polti .
In 2000, Blijlevens invested in his climbing-abilities, but this did not work out as planned, and Blijlevens was not as successful as before. He failed to win a stage in the Tour de France , and was even disqualified after finishing the last stage for seeking out and assaulting Bobby Julich . [10] When Polti stopped as a sponsor at the end of the year, Blijlevens signed for Lotto–Adecco for 2001. [11]
In 2001, Blijlevens rode the Giro d'Italia , where the Italian police raided his team's hotel, but no forbidden products were found. As a protest against this treatment, the cyclists refused to start the eighteenth stage. [12]
At the end of 2001, Blijlevens could not find a new team, and made plans to ride as an amateur again, [13] but finally he signed a contract for one year at Domo–Farm Frites . Blijlevens rode for a low base salary, with bonuses for victories. [14] After a year full of injuries, Blijlevens was not given a contract for 2003, and switched to the BankGiroLoterij–Batavus team. [15]
After his retirement at the end of 2004, Blijlevens made plans to break the speed record on a bicycle , [16] but failed to do so.
In June 2013 he became sports director of the new Blanco Pro Cycling team, and as part of a Dutch nationwide doping inquiry signed a statement saying he had never used doping. [17] In July he was named in a French Senate report as one of many cyclists who had tested positive for EPO during retesting of samples from the 1998 Tour de France , [18] Blijlevens then confessed that he had used EPO since 1997, and that he had lied in the investigation because he wanted to keep his job. [19]
Major results
- 1992
- 1st PWZ Zuidenveld Tour
- 1993
- 1st GP de Lillers
- 1995
- 1st Draai van de Kaai
- 1st Profronde van Pijnacker
- 1st Ronde van Midden-Zeeland
- 1st Trofeo Alcudia
- 1st Stage 5 Tour de France
- 1st Stage 10 Vuelta a España
- 1996
- 1st Draai van de Kaai
- 1st Trofeo Mallorca
- 1st Profronde van Heerlen
- 1st Stage 5 Tour de France
- 1st Stage 5 Vuelta a España
- 1997
- 1st Hengelo
- 1st Veenendaal–Veenendaal
- 1st Profronde van Wateringen
- 1st Profronde van Surhuisterveen
- 1st Stage 6 Tour de France
- 1998
- 1st Woerden
- 1st Stage 4 Tour de France
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Vuelta a España
- 1st Stages 2 & 5
- 1999
- 1st Grand Prix de Denain
- 1st Profronde van Pijnacker
- 1st Trofeo Mallorca
- 1st Nokere Koerse
- 1st Scheldeprijs
- 1st Profronde van Stiphout
- 1st Dwars door Gendringen
- 1st Stage 21 Vuelta a España
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Giro d'Italia
- 1st Stages 3 & 7
- 2000
- 1st Mijl van Mares
- 2003
- 1st Ruddervoorde
References
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↑
"Alison Jackson completes 2021 Liv Racing roster"
.
Cyclingnews.com
.
Future plc
. 24 November 2020
. Retrieved
11 January
2021
.
The Liv Racing team sees a change in management as technical advisor Lars Boom, who was brought in this season to help with the inaugural Women's Paris-Roubaix before it was cancelled, will replace sports director Jeroen Blijlevens.
- 1 2 3 "Blijlevens van de hel in de hemel" . Leidsch Dagblad (in Dutch). Regionaal Archief Leiden. 7 July 1995 . Retrieved 25 July 2013 . [ permanent dead link ]
- ↑ "Priem lijft amateur Blijlevens in" . Leidsch Dagblad (in Dutch). Regionaal Archief Leiden. 6 October 1993 . Retrieved 25 July 2013 . [ permanent dead link ]
- ↑ "Blijlevens mee naar de Tour" . Leidsch Dagblad (in Dutch). Regionaal Archief Leiden. 26 June 1995 . Retrieved 25 July 2013 . [ permanent dead link ]
- ↑ "Blijlevens trekt zwembroek aan" . Leidsch Dagblad (in Dutch). Regionaal Archief Leiden. 10 July 1995 . Retrieved 25 July 2013 . [ permanent dead link ]
- ↑ "Blijlevens heeft toch zijn parel" . Leidsch Dagblad (in Dutch). Regionaal Archief Leiden. 12 July 1997 . Retrieved 25 July 2013 . [ permanent dead link ]
- ↑ "Jeroen Blijlevens: een sprinter op de vlucht" . Leidsch Dagblad (in Dutch). Regionaal Archief Leiden. 31 July 1998 . Retrieved 25 July 2013 . [ permanent dead link ]
- ↑ "Een tweede plaats telt niet voor mij" . Leidsch Dagblad (in Dutch). Regionaal Archief Leiden. 18 May 1999 . Retrieved 25 July 2013 . [ permanent dead link ]
- ↑ "TVM spant civiele procedure aan" . Leidsch Dagblad (in Dutch). Regionaal Archief Leiden. 19 June 1999 . Retrieved 25 July 2013 . [ permanent dead link ]
- ↑ "Blijlevens gediskwalificeerd na handgemeen met Julich" . Leidsch Dagblad (in Dutch). Regionaal Archief Leiden. 24 June 2000 . Retrieved 25 July 2013 . [ permanent dead link ]
- ↑ "Blijlevens naar Lotto" . Leidsch Dagblad (in Dutch). Regionaal Archief Leiden. 12 October 2000 . Retrieved 25 July 2013 . [ permanent dead link ]
- ↑ "Politie-inval in Giro déjà-vu voor Blijlevens" . Leidsch Dagblad (in Dutch). Regionaal Archief Leiden. 12 October 2000 . Retrieved 25 July 2013 . [ permanent dead link ]
- ↑ "Blijlevens: 'Ik denk dat ik bij de amateurs ga rijden' " . Leidsch Dagblad (in Dutch). Regionaal Archief Leiden. 11 October 2001 . Retrieved 25 July 2013 . [ permanent dead link ]
- ↑ " 'In het buitenland is nog altijd geloof in Blijlevens' " . Leidsch Dagblad (in Dutch). Regionaal Archief Leiden. 15 November 2001 . Retrieved 25 July 2013 . [ permanent dead link ]
- ↑ "Blijlevens naar Bankgiroloterij" . Leidsch Dagblad (in Dutch). Regionaal Archief Leiden. 3 December 2002 . Retrieved 25 July 2013 . [ permanent dead link ]
- ↑ "Blijlevens wil snelste ter wereld zijn" . Leidsch Dagblad (in Dutch). Regionaal Archief Leiden. 3 December 2002 . Retrieved 25 July 2013 . [ permanent dead link ]
- ↑ "Moet Jeroen Blijlevens nu weg bij Belkin?" . de Volkskrant (in Dutch). 25 July 2013 . Retrieved 25 July 2013 .
- ↑ José Been (2012-11-28). "Belkin Sports Director Jeroen Blijlevens Implicated In French Senate's Report" . Cyclingnews.com . Retrieved 2013-07-25 .
- ↑ Been, José (25 July 2013). "Blijlevens leaves Belkin over 1998 Tour de France EPO evidence" . Cyclingnews . Future Publishing Limited . Retrieved 25 July 2013 .
External links
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Jeroen Blijlevens
at
ProCyclingStats
- Jeroen Blijlevens at Cycling Archives
- Official Tour de France results for Jeroen Blijlevens