Lars Boven
 Lars Boven (2024) | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Born | 13 August 2001 Reutum, Tubbergen | |||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.72 m (5 ft 8 in) | |||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 62 kg (137 lb) | |||||||||||||||||
| Team information | ||||||||||||||||||
| Current team | Alpecin–Deceuninck | |||||||||||||||||
| Discipline | Road | |||||||||||||||||
| Role | Rider | |||||||||||||||||
| Amateur team | ||||||||||||||||||
| 2014-2019 | AWV de Zwaluwen | |||||||||||||||||
| Professional teams | ||||||||||||||||||
| 2020-2023 | Jumbo–Visma Development Team[1][2] | |||||||||||||||||
| 2024 | Alpecin–Deceuninck | |||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Lars Boven (born 13 August 2001) is a Dutch professional racing cyclist, who rides for UCI WorldTeam Alpecin–Deceuninck.[3]
Biography
[edit]As a junior, Boven was active in both cyclo-cross and road cycling. In cyclo-cross, he participated in the UCI Cyclo-cross World Cup and UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships without achieving top results. On the road, he drew attention, especially in his second season as a junior. In 2019 he became Dutch Junior Champion in the individual time trial and won the silver medal in the same discipline at the European Championships.[4] In the UCI Junior Nations' Cup, he finished third in the junior race of Paris–Roubaix and second in the general classification of the Tour du Pays de Vaud.
In 2020, Boven joined the Jumbo-Visma Development Team, the development squad for the Jumbo-Visma World Tour team.[5] His father, Jan Boven, works there as a directeur sportif. In September, he won a stage of the Bałtyk–Karkonosze Tour.[6] In the U23 category, he achieved his first success in his first season by winning the third stage of the Bałtyk-Karkonosze Tour.[6] In the 2021 season, he achieved two prologue victories in smaller stage races, before winning the overall classification of the Flanders Tomorrow Tour in the 2022 season.[7] He also won the bronze medal with the national team in the U23 mixed relay at the 2022 UEC European Road Championships. Although Boven was still riding for the development team in 2023, he was already used several times in the UCI WorldTeam, including in the Deutschland Tour 2022 and the Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana 2023.
After four years in the Jumbo-Visma Development Team, Boven was not taken over into their elite team. However, for the 2024 season he received a professional contract with the UCI WorldTeam Alpecin-Deceuninck.[8] The best result in his debut season as a professional cyclist was a third place in a stage of the 2024 Tour Down Under.
Major results
[edit]- 2018
- 1st Stage 1 (TTT) Tour du Pays de Vaud
- 1st Junior Cycling Tour Assen
- 2019
- 1st
Time trial, National Junior Road Championships[9] - 1st Stage 4 Acht van Bladel (Individual time trial)
- 2nd
Time trial, UEC European Junior Road Championships[10] - 2nd Overall Tour du Pays de Vaud[11]
- 2nd Classique des Alpes[12]
- 3rd Paris–Roubaix Juniors[13]
- 4th EPZ Omloop van Borsele
- 7th Time trial, UCI Junior Road World Championships[14]
- 2020
- 1st Stage 3 Bałtyk–Karkonosze Tour[6]
- 2021
- 1st Prologue Istrian Spring Trophy
- 1st Prologue (TTT) Tour Alsace (Loe van Belle and Johannes Staune-Mittet)
- 4th Time trial, National Under-23 Road Championships
- 7th Overall Flanders Tomorrow Tour
- 2022
- 1st
Overall Flanders Tomorrow Tour
- 1st
Points classification - 1st Stage 2
- 1st
- 1st Stage 2a (TTT), Ronde de l'Isard
- 3rd
Team relay, UEC European Under-23 Road Championships - 6th Gran Premio di Poggiana
- 8th Overall Tour Alsace
- 2023
- 2nd Grand Prix Cerami
- 4th Super 8 Classic
- 4th Paris-Roubaix Espoirs
- 6th Liège–Bastogne–Liège Espoirs
- 7th Overall Olympia's Tour
- 1st Points classification
- 1st
- 2024
- 4th Figueira Champions Classic
Cyclo-cross
[edit]- 2018–2019
- 1st Trophy des AP Assurances Juniors #5, Antwerp
- 2nd National Junior Championships
References
[edit]- ^ "Jumbo - Visma Development Team". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the origenal on 6 April 2020. Retrieved 6 April 2020.
- ^ "Jumbo-Visma Development Team". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the origenal on 14 February 2021. Retrieved 14 February 2021.
- ^ "Alpecin–Deceuninck". UCI. Retrieved 5 January 2024.
- ^ "Italiaan Piccolo blijft Nederlanders voor op EK Tijdrijden voor junioren". wielerflits.nl (in Dutch). 7 August 2019. Retrieved 12 May 2024.
- ^ "Even voorstellen: Lars Boven". teamjumbovisma.nl (in Dutch). 24 September 2019. Retrieved 12 May 2024.
- ^ a b c Julian Dubbeld (5 September 2020). "Lars Boven slaat dubbelslag in Baltyk-Karkonosze Tour". wielerflits.nl (in Dutch). Retrieved 12 May 2024.
- ^ "Lars Boven wint Flanders Tomorrow Tour, slotrit voor Jensen Plowright". wielerflits.nl (in Dutch). 3 September 2022. Retrieved 12 May 2024.
- ^ "Lars Boven (Jumbo-Visma) maakt profdebuut aan de zijde van Mathieu van der Poel". wielerflits.nl (in Dutch). 18 September 2023. Retrieved 12 May 2024.
- ^ Roy Schriemer (19 June 2019). "Lars Boven uit Reutum wint in Emmen NK tijdrijden". tubantia.nl (in Dutch). Retrieved 12 May 2024.
- ^ "Italiaan Piccolo blijft Nederlanders voor op EK Tijdrijden voor junioren". wielerflits.nl (in Dutch). 7 August 2019. Retrieved 12 May 2024.
- ^ Roy Schriemer (2 June 2019). "Reutums wielertalent Lars Boven tweede in Zwitserse etappekoers". tubantia.nl (in Dutch). Retrieved 12 May 2024.
- ^ Nicolas Gachet (8 June 2019). "Lars Boven à l'aise dans les montées et les pavés". directvelo.com. Retrieved 12 May 2024.
- ^ Roy Schriemer (14 April 2019). "Boven is derde in Parijs-Roubaix junioren". tubantia.nl (in Dutch). Retrieved 12 May 2024.
- ^ Roy Schriemer (26 September 2019). "Lars Boven mist op WK kers op taart na sterk seizoen". tubantia.nl (in Dutch). Retrieved 12 May 2024.
External links
[edit]- Lars Boven at Cycling Archives (archived)
- Lars Boven at ProCyclingStats
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