Karsten Kroon
2002 Tour de France stage win two wins Around the Henninger Tower 2004 and 2008 Stage win Vuelta a Castilla y León 2008
Karsten Kroon ( born January 29, 1976 in Dalen, Coevorden ) is a Dutch racing cyclist. He is 1.80 meters tall, while his racing weight is 67 kg.
Career
As early as 1996 it was possible Karsten Kroon to win as an amateur race Ronde van Drenthe the professional. In 1999 he was himself a professional and eventually went to 2005 for the ProTeam Rabobank. From 2006 to 2009 Kroon was the Danish team CSC under contract before the American Professional Continental team BMC Racing team he joined in 2010.
Among the most important achievements of the Dutchman counts alongside two-time winning the race Around the Henninger Tower in 2004 and 2008, a stage win in the Tour de France 2002. Kroon took during his career and at the Giro d' Italia and the Vuelta a España in part and allowed the meantime wear the jersey of the best mountain already in all three national tours; at the Tour of Italy in 2000 even for 13 days of time. His best result he scored at the Vuelta in 2007 as a 52 overall. Kroon participated in the last eleven world championships in a row for his homeland and also graduated from the road race in the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens and 2008 Beijing. In the Vuelta a España 2011 Kroon crashed during the 14th stage of a 30 -meter-high embankment and broke an arm and then had to give up.
For the 2012 season Kroon returned to CSC, dads now under the name of Team Saxo Bank to stand as captain for the classics in the Ardennes, but also as a driver and crew Capitaine de route for younger drivers available recoiled. The first competitions for Saxo Bank denied the Dutchman in the Mallorca Challenge in early February, where he took part in the Trofeo Palma and at the Trofeo Migjorn.
Team
Achievements
- Ronde van Drenthe winner
- Circuit Franco -Belge stage win
- Stage victory triptyque Ardennais
- De Vlaamse Pijl
- Appreciation and stage win of Rochester Beloften
- Winner GP Kanton Aargau
- Tour de France stage win
- Stage win Tour du Poitou -Charentes
- Winner Around the Henninger Tower
- Two stage wins three-country tour
- Stage win Vuelta a Castilla y León
- Winner Around the Henninger Tower
- Sachsen-Tour stage win