Chantal van den Broek-Blaak

Chantal van den Broek-Blaak (née Blaak; born 22 October 1989) is a Dutch road racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's Continental Team Boels–Dolmans.[2] In 2017 she became world road race champion in Bergen, Norway.[3]

Chantal van den Broek-Blaak
Van den Broek-Blaak at the 2018 European Road Cycling Championships.
Personal information
Full nameChantal van den Broek-Blaak
NicknameBlaaki
BornChantal Blaak
(1989-10-22) 22 October 1989
Zuidland, Netherlands
Height1.76 m (5 ft 9 in)
Team information
Current teamBoels–Dolmans
DisciplineRoad
RoleRider
Rider typeClassics specialist
Professional teams
2008–2012AA-Drink Cycling Team
2013Team TIBCO–To The Top
2014Specialized–lululemon
2015–Boels–Dolmans[1]
Major wins
UCI Road World Cup
Open de Suède Vårgårda (2014)

UCI Women's WorldTour

Ronde van Drenthe (2016)
Gent–Wevelgem (2016)

One day races

World Road Race Championship (2017)
Amstel Gold Race (2018)
Drentse 8 (2014)
Le Samyn des Dames (2015, 2016, 2020)

Career

Junior career

Van den Broek-Blaak was the Dutch national junior time trial champion in 2006 and 2007. She was European under-23 road race champion in 2009 and was also third in the Ronde van Drenthe race of the UCI Women's Road World Cup in that year.

Professional career
Van den Broek-Blaak wearing the rainbow jersey at the start of the 2018 Tour of Flanders

Van den Broek-Blaak began her professional career in 2008 with the Dutch AA-Drink Cycling Team and remained with them until they disbanded at the end of 2012, after which she raced for the US team Team TIBCO–To The Top for a year.

In 2014, she joined Specialized–lululemon and won her first UCI Women's Road World Cup race, the Open de Suède Vårgårda.

She transferred to the Boels–Dolmans team for 2015, along with sponsors Specialized Bicycle Components and lululemon Athletica and teammate Evelyn Stevens.[4] She won the 2015 Le Samyn des Dames.

2016 was her most successful season to date, yielding wins in Le Samyn des Dames, the Ronde van Drenthe, Gent–Wevelgem and the Holland Ladies Tour.

In 2017, van den Broek-Blaak became both Dutch national and world road race champion after she successfully broke away from an elite group of riders 8 kilometres (5.0 miles) from the finish.[3] In the rainbow jersey, she won the Amstel Gold Race in 2018.[5]

2019 saw Chantal Blaak win Omloop Het Nieuwsblad for the first time.[6]

In the 2019 off-season, Chantal Blaak married former cyclist Lars Van Den Broek.

Major results
2009
3rd Ronde van Drenthe
2012
2nd Ronde van Gelderland
2014
1st Open de Suède Vårgårda
1st Drentse 8
1st Stage 5 Energiewacht Tour
2015
1st Le Samyn des Dames
1st RaboRonde Heerlen
1st Stage 3 Emakumeen Euskal Bira
2nd Omloop van het Hageland
2016
1st Overall Holland Ladies Tour
1st Stages 1 (TTT) & 2
1st Le Samyn des Dames
1st Ronde van Drenthe
1st Gent–Wevelgem
2nd Omloop Het Nieuwsblad
3rd Tour of Flanders
2017
1st Road race, UCI Road World Championships
1st Road race, National Road Championships
Healthy Ageing Tour
1st Stages 2 (ITT) & 4
2nd Omloop Het Nieuwsblad
3rd Tour of Flanders
8th Gent–Wevelgem
2018
1st Amstel Gold Race
2nd Overall Healthy Ageing Tour
2nd Trofeo Alfredo Binda
4th Strade Bianche
5th Tour of Flanders
2019
1st Omloop Het Nieuwsblad
2020
1st Le Samyn des Dames

Classics results timeline
Classic 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020
Omloop Het Nieuwsblad 4 25 3 28 7 DNF 4 2 2 15 1 4
Strade Bianche Race did not exist — — — 4 10
Ronde van Drenthe 3 5 55 19 DNF 4 26 1 9 62 2
Trofeo Alfredo Binda 8 59 6 68 5 27 32 12 4 2 11
Gent–Wevelgem Race did not exist — — — — 1 8 31 71
Tour of Flanders — 6 24 27 40 27 9 3 3 5 7
Amstel Gold Race Not held 11 1 43
La Flèche Wallonne 43 36 48 — — — — — — — DNF
Liège–Bastogne–Liège Race did not exist 35 43 45
GP de Plouay 26 11 4 52 35 — — — — — 57
Open de Suède Vårgårda — 7 52 — 47 1 27 3 34 44 —
– = Did not start
DNF = Did not finish

References
  1. Ostanek, Daniel (3 December 2018). "Boels-Dolmans finalise roster with MTB champion Annika Langvad". Cyclist. Dennis Publishing Limited. Retrieved 5 February 2019.
  2. Frattini, Kirsten (8 January 2020). "2020 Team Preview: Boels Dolmans". Cyclingnews.com. Future plc. Retrieved 20 January 2020.
  3. "Chantal Blaak nets elite women's road race world title despite crash". Cycling Weekly. Retrieved 23 September 2017.
  4. Nagel, Maxwell (22 September 2014). "Specialized, Evelyn Stevens move to Boels-Dolmans women's cycling team in 2015". VeloNews. Retrieved 27 September 2014.
  5. "Chantal Blaak wins women's Amstel Gold Race". Cyclingnews. Immediate Media Company. Retrieved 15 April 2018.
  6. "Women's Omloop Het Nieuwsblad 2020 Preview". ProCyclingUK.com. Retrieved 28 February 2020.
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