Cycling team season
The 2007 women's road cycling season was the eighth season for the Vrienden van het Platteland (UCI code: VVP) cycling team, which began as Ondernemers van Nature in 2000.
The main victories on the road for the team were the time trial at the Tour of Chongming Island by Ellen van Dijk and the Norwegian and Dutch Time Trial Championships by Anita Valen and Ellen van Dijk. On the track Van Dijk also won the individual pursuit at the Dutch National Track Cycling Championships. At the end of the year the team ended 23rd in the UCI Team's Ranking with Ellen van Dijk as the best individual at the 37th place in the UCI Individual Women's Road Ranking.[1]
Roster
Ages as of 1 January 2007.
| | Rider | Date of birth |  Liesbeth Bakker (NED) | (1986-07-01)1 July 1986 (aged 20) | | Janne Brok (NED) | (1987-06-07)7 June 1987 (aged 19) |  Katie Brown (AUS) | (1983-02-02)2 February 1983 (aged 23) | | Ellen van Dijk (NED) | (1987-02-11)11 February 1987 (aged 19) | | Yvonne Leezer (NED) | (1987-02-09)9 February 1987 (aged 19) | | Emma Mackie (AUS) | (1984-09-09)9 September 1984 (aged 22) | | | | | Rider | Date of birth |  Anita Valen (NOR) | (1968-12-12)12 December 1968 (aged 38) | | Monique van de Ree (NED) | (1988-03-02)2 March 1988 (aged 18) | | Moniek Rotmensen (NED) | (1986-04-25)25 April 1986 (aged 20) | | Monique Verstraten (NED) | (1983-04-24)24 April 1983 (aged 23) | | Jaccolien Wallaard (NED) | (1982-09-30)30 September 1982 (aged 24) | |
Sources[2][3]
- Riders who joined the team for the 2007 season
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Season
The first podium place for the team was a third place for Jaccolien Wallaard at Omloop Het Volk in March. In May Ellen van Dijk finished third at Omloop van Borsele and in the time trial stage at the Tour de l'Aude Cycliste Féminin. Van Dijk finished third again in an international time trial at the Tour of Chongming Island Time trial in June. The day afterwards Van Dijk won the first stage of the Tour of Chongming Island with Wallaard in third place. After finishing second in the stage 2 and stage 3 Van Dijk ended also second in the general classification.[4] In July Ellen van Dijk represented the Netherlands at the European Championships (under-23) and finished fifth in the time trial. At the national championships Anita Valen won the time trial in Norway and finished second in the road race. In the Netherlands Ellen van Dijk won the Dutch time trial championships. Due to Van Dijks' good results in the time trials she was chosen to represent the Netherlands in the time trial at the World Championships in Stuttgart where she finished 17th.[5] Due to her good results Ellen van Dijk became sportswomen of the year of Woerden.[6] Van Dijk was invited to join the Dutch national track cycling team.[7] At the national track championships she became Dutch champion in the individual pursuit, ahead of Marianne Vos and Kirsten Wild, and finished fourth in the scratch race and points race.[8]
Results
Season victories
Results in major races
- ^ As part of the Dutch national team
- ^ Riders are in these championships part of the national team
UCI World Ranking
The team finished 23rd in the UCI ranking for teams.[1]
References
- ^ a b c "Ranking - Cycling - Road 2007 Women Elite UCI Ranking Individual Final result". UCI. Archived from the original on 9 September 2013. Retrieved 3 September 2013.
- ^ "2007 Roster". cyclingarchives.com. Retrieved 15 February 2013.
- ^ "2007 Roster". cqranking.com. Retrieved 15 February 2013.
- ^ "Vrienden van het Platteland (VVP) - UCI 2007". CQranking.com. Retrieved 5 December 2014.
- ^ "Results of Ellen van Dijk in 2007". CQranking.com. Retrieved 5 September 2012.
- ^ "Ellen van Dijk, sportvrouw van 2007". Wourdense Courant. 18 December 2007. Archived from the original on 4 October 2013. Retrieved 3 October 2013.
- ^ Ellen van Dijk. "Biography of Ellen van Dijk". Ellenvandijk.nl. Retrieved 4 September 2012.
- ^ "Ellen van Dijk (cyclingarchives)". Cyclingarchives.com. Retrieved 5 September 2012.
- ^ a b "2007 Vrienden van het platteland". procyclingstats.com. Retrieved 1 March 2014.
- ^ "2007 World Championships WE - ITT (CM)". procyclingstats.com. Retrieved 29 July 2014.
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