Tom Boonen Biography, Age, Wife, Children, Bike, Net worth, Retirement, Net worth

Tom Boonen Biography

Tom Boonen is a former road bicycle racer born on 15th October 1980 in Mol, Belgium. He is a world champion, three-time Tour of Flanders and four-time Paris-Roubaix and was a single-day road specialist with a strong finishing sprint. He retired from pro cycling in April 2017. He is the technological adviser and ambassador for the Lotto–Soudal Captains of Cycling supporters’ programme

Tom Boonen Wife

Boonen is not married but has been in a longtime relationship with Lore.

Tom Boonen Children

In 2015 Tom and Lore gave birth to twins Valentine and Jacqueline. Boonen tweeted “Our family has been extended with two little princesses. Valentine and Jacqueline both weigh 2.4 kg. The babies and mom are doing fine.”

Boonen said that he waited until the end of his career to have kids so that they don’t grow up with an absent dad.

” We waited actually until the end of my career, not when we were 25 to have kids but we did it now when I’m 34. I don’t want my kids growing up with a dad who’s gone eight months of the year.”

Tom Boonen and his partner Lore

They had previously, in 2014, suffered a miscarriage. During an interview with the journalist he said: “Lore and I have had a very difficult week, a terrible week actually… On Tuesday, the gynecologist told us that child was dead inside her belly. On Thursday, she had to go to the hospital for labour. It was a very difficult delivery, which took 25 hours.”

Tom Boonen Net worth

Tom has an estimated net worth of 1.5 million Euro.

Tom Boonen Career/ Tom Boonen Achievements

At the start of 2002 Tom Boonen rode for U.S. Postal Service, finishing third in Paris–Roubaix after an early breakaway. Fellow Belgian Johan Museeuw had escaped to a solo victory. Team captain George Hincapie crashed in a slippery section of the course leaving Boonen to ride for himself. Boonen’s performance led Museeuw – his childhood hero – to declare Tom Boonen his successor.

At the start of 2003 he joined Quick Step-Davitamon, he claimed that US Postal never gave him enough chances to ride for himself. During the 2004 season Boonen won the E3 Prijs Vlaanderen, Gent–Wevelgem and the Scheldeprijs. He also won two stages of the Tour de France including the final stage in Paris, as Museeuw did in 1990.

In 2005 Tom Boonen won the Tour of Flanders, Paris–Roubaix and the E3 Prijs Vlaanderen, and came second in the Omloop “Het Volk” behind teammate Nick Nuyens. He was first to win the Tour of Flanders, Paris–Roubaix, and the World Cycling Championship in the same season.

In the Tour de France, Tom Boonen won the second and third stages, taking the lead in the points classification. He retired after stage 11 due to injuries sustained in crashes. On 25 September Boonen became the 21st Belgian road world champion. He won the race in Madrid, after the leading six riders were caught. He outsprinted Alejandro Valverde to become the first Belgian since Museeuw, in 1996, to wear the rainbow jersey. He came second in the 2005 UCI ProTour rankings.

At the end of 2005 he won several awards: Kristallen Fiets (Crystal Bicycle), Vélo d’Or (Golden Bicycle), Trofee voor Sportverdienste (Trophy For Sporting Merit), Belgian Sportsman of the year and Belgian Sports Personality of the Year.

In 2006, Tom Boonen won the Tour of Flanders and came second in Paris–Roubaix the following week. Boonen won the second and the third stages of the Tour of Belgium. Boonen won three stages of the Eneco Tour of Benelux but could not keep his title at the world championship, held on a circuit that was hillier than in Madrid 2005. Paolo Bettini won and Boonen came ninth.

In 2007, Tom Boonen won five stages of the Tour of Qatar and came second in the general classification. He won Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne and E3 Prijs Vlaanderen but he didn’t win one of the five cycling monuments. His best placing was third in Milan–San Remo.

Tom Boonen won stages 6 and 12 of the Tour de France. He won the points classification in the Tour de France, the first Belgian since Eddy Planckaert in 1988 to do so.

In 2008 he won four stages and the overall and points classifications in the Tour of Qatar. On 10 June 2008, reports said Tom Boonen was negotiating a team place for him and other riders at Bouygues Télécom, a French team.

Negotiations ended when Tom Boonen tested positive for cocaine. Cocaine was not a performance-enhancing drug and Boonen faced no sanctions by the UCI or WADA. He apologized to his Quick Step manager, Patrick Lefévère at a press conference next day. Lefévère said Quick Step kept its confidence in him. But Boonen was barred from the Tour of Switzerland and the Tour de France.  In February 2009 a Belgian court found him guilty of cocaine use but decided against sanctions, saying he has “been punished enough”.

At the beginning of 2009 he won a stage and the overall and points classifications in the Tour of Qatar. He also won Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne for the second time. He also won Paris–Roubaix for the third time in his career.

On 27 April, Tom Boonen tested positive for cocaine for the third time (the first, in November 2007, had not previously been made public). He was suspended by his team, Quick-Step, on 9 May. He began racing again in the Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré. In June, he won the national championship. After initiating legal proceedings he was allowed to compete in the Tour de France, just one day before the start on 3 July 2009. He pulled out, due to illness on 18 July, before the 15th stage.

Tom Boonen returned to racing in the Eneco Tour where he won the third stage. After that he entered the Vuelta a España to prepare for the final part of the season. There, he finished second in the prologue behind Cancellara.He finished his season with a second place in Paris–Tours, beaten in a sprint of three by
fellow countryman and defending champion Philippe Gilbert.

In 2010 Tom Boonen became third in the Tour of Qatar, winning two stages, then won stage five of the Tour of Oman. He won the second stage of Tirreno-Adriatico, before finishing second to Óscar Freire in Milan–San Remo. Boonen came second to Fabian Cancellara in the E3 Prijs Vlaanderen – Harelbeke, a result replicated at the Tour of Flanders. He came fifth in Paris–Roubaix the following week.

He suffered from tendinitis in his left knee caused by crashes at the Tour of California and the Tour de Suisse which prompted him to miss most of the rest of 2010 season.

In 2011 he began the season by winning the opening stage of the 2011 Tour of Qatar. He missed the world championship after he fell in the Vuelta a España and had previously crashed on stage five of the Tour de France.

At the beginning of the 2012 season Tom Boonen won stage seven of his first race, the Tour de San Luis. In February, he won the Tour of Qatar, winning two stages and the points classification, and finished second to Sep Vanmarcke in Omloop Het Nieuwsblad.

Tom Boonen won the second stage of Paris–Nice. He won the E3 Harelbeke and Gent– Wevelgem two days later. In June he won the national championship title at the Tour of California taking the tricolor jersey from Philippe Gilbert.

Tom Boonen won the first edition of the two-day stage race World Ports Classic, winning the first stage in a sprint. He won the points classification and the overall lead after coming third on the second stage. One week later Tom Boonen won Paris–Brussels.

At the beginning of 2017 season he won stage 2 of the Vuelta a San Juan which was the first professional victory for a cyclist using disc brakes. He resumed his cobbled classics campaign at E3 Harelbeke, where he animated the race with an attack on the Taaienberg on his way to an eighth-place finish. He followed this up with a sixth place at Gent-Wevelgem, which he described as a satisfactory result, and a good indicator of form going into the cobbled Monuments.

At the Tour of Flanders, Tom Boonen had an eventful race: he led the Quick-Step squad into the foot of the Muur van Geraardsbergen, where he helped to force a breakaway group alongside team leader and eventual race winner Philippe Gilbert, and played a key part in enabling the group to distance the bunch.

However his own hopes of scoring a podium finish were scuppered by a mechanical problem on the Taaienberg, and he finished the race in 37th place.  He next raced at the Scheldeprijs, his last race in Belgium, which paid tribute to Tom Boonen by starting in his hometown of Mol.

Tom Boonen Auto

Tom Boonen was awarded his motor racing licence in June 2017 making his car racing debut in July  in the Volkswagen Beetle-based Fun Cup where he competed in the 25 Hours of the VW Fun Cup at the Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps. Together with his team mates  Anthony Kumpen, Bert Longin and Ruben Van Gucht finished in 29th place out of 118 starters.

In February 2018 Boonen joined forces with Lotto–Soudal,  Quick Step’s long-time Belgian rivals, becoming a shareholder in the team and taking up the roles of technological adviser and ambassador for the team’s Captains of Cycling supporters’ programme.

Tom Boonen was awarded his motor racing licence in June 2017 making his car racing debut in July in the Volkswagen Beetle-based Fun Cup where he competed in the 25 Hours of the VW Fun Cup at the Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps. Together with his team mates Anthony Kumpen, Bert Longin and Ruben Van Gucht finished in 29th place out of 118 starters.

In February 2018 Boonen joined forces with Lotto–Soudal, Quick Step’s long-time Belgian rivals, becoming a shareholder in the team and taking up the roles of technological adviser and ambassador for the team’s Captains of Cycling supporters’ programme.

Tom Boonen Peter Sagan

In April 2018 Sagan said other teams were too concerned with marking him than racing for a win after the Tour of Flanders. He said there was lack of cooperation from other riders after his rivals attack.

“The other teams didn’t respect the situation and collaborate. It’s not just me that they need to beat.”

Tom Boonen responded to him and said he should shut up: “A lack of cooperation? He is always in the wheel, I think Sagan really should not talk about a lack of cooperation. He is the one who always starts to sit on.

He’s like the cat in the tree, sitting there and then all at once, coming forward and waving his paw [for the others to work]. Then you have to keep your mouth shut.

I like him and this does not detract from his qualities, he is a very good rider, but you should not say such a thing if you try to ride in the wheels yourself. He also always tries to benefit from the work of other teams. There is nothing wrong with that, but then you do not have to complain afterwards: ‘They won’t work with me.’”

Tom Boonen Bike

tom boonen bike

 Tom Boonen Tattoo

tom boonen tattoo

Tom Boonen Achievements

Major results

2000
1st Paris–Tours Espoirs

2001

• 1st Zellik–Galmaarden
• 1st Internationale Wielertrofee Jong Maar Moedig

2002

• 1st Wilrijk
• 1st Stage 1 Volta a Catalunya
• 1st Stage 2 Uniqa Classic
• 2nd Overall Circuit Franco-Belge
• 1st Young rider classification
• 3rd Paris–Roubaix
• 6th Kampioenschap van Vlaanderen
• 7th Overall Three Days of De Panne
• 7th Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne
• 7th Gent–Wevelgem

2003

• Tour of Belgium
• 1st Mountains classification
• 1st Stage 3
• 3rd Gent–Wevelgem
• 5th Omloop Het Volk

2004

• 1st Jersey yellow.svg Overall Tour de Picardie
• 1st Jersey green.svg Points classification
• 1st Stages 1 & 2
• 1st Gent–Wevelgem
• 1st E3 Prijs Vlaanderen
• 1st Scheldeprijs
• 1st GP Rik Van Steenbergen
• Tour de France
• 1st Stages 6 & 20
• Deutschland Tour
• 1st Stages 2 & 7
• 1st Stage 1 Vuelta a Andalucía
• 1st Stage 2 Tour of Belgium
• 1st Stage 3 Tour of Britain
• 3rd Overall Tour of Qatar
• 1st Jersey grey.svg Points classification
• 1st Jersey white.svg Young rider classification
• 1st Stage 2
• 6th Overall Ster Elektrotour
• 1st Points classification
• 1st Prologue & Stage 1
• 6th Overall Circuit Franco-Belge
• 1st Stages 3 & 4
• 9th Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne
• 9th Paris–Roubaix

2005

• 1st MaillotMundial.PNG Road race, UCI Road World Championships
• 1st Jersey yellow.svg Overall Tour of Belgium
• 1st Points classification
• 1st Stages 1 & 2
• 1st Paris–Roubaix
• 1st Tour of Flanders
• 1st E3 Prijs Vlaanderen
• Tour de France
• 1st Stages 2 & 3
• Paris–Nice
• 1st Stages 1 & 2
• 2nd Omloop Het Volk
• 4th Overall Tour of Qatar
• 1st Jersey grey.svg Points classification
• 1st Stages 1 & 2
• 4th Scheldeprijs
• 8th Milan–San Remo
• 10th Overall Tour de Picardie
• 1st Stage 2
• 10th Grand Prix de Wallonie

2006

• 1st Jersey yellow.svg Overall Tour of Qatar
• 1st Jersey grey.svg Points classification
• 1st Stages 1, 2, 3 & 5
• 1st Tour of Flanders
• 1st E3 Prijs Vlaanderen
• 1st Scheldeprijs
• 1st Veenendaal–Veenendaal
• 1st International Grand Prix Doha
• Paris–Nice
• 1st Stages 1, 2 & 4
• Eneco Tour
• 1st Stages 1, 3 & 5
• 1st Stage 5 Vuelta a Andalucía
• 1st Stage 1 Tour de Suisse
• 1st Stage 6 Tour of Britain
• 2nd Paris–Roubaix
• 2nd Paris–Brussels
• 3rd Road race, National Road Championships
• 3rd Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne
• 4th Overall Tour of Belgium
• 1st Points classification
• 1st Stages 2 & 3b
• 4th Milan–San Remo
• 5th Dwars door Vlaanderen
• 9th Road race, UCI Road World Championships
• 10th Grand Prix de Wallonie
• Tour de France
• Held Jersey yellow.svg after Stages 3–6

2007

• 1st E3 Prijs Vlaanderen
• 1st Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne
• 1st Dwars door Vlaanderen
• Tour de France
• 1st Jersey green.svg Points classification
• 1st Stages 6 & 12
• 1st Stage 4 Vuelta a Andalucía
• 1st Stage 5 Tour of Belgium
• 2nd Road race, National Road Championships
• 2nd Overall Tour of Qatar
• 1st Jersey grey.svg Points classification
• 1st Stages 1 (TTT), 2, 3, 4 & 6
• 3rd Omloop Het Volk
• 3rd Milan–San Remo
• 6th Paris–Roubaix

2008

• 1st Jersey yellow.svg Overall Tour of Qatar
• 1st Jersey grey.svg Points classification
• 1st Stages 1 (TTT), 2, 3 & 6
• 1st Paris–Roubaix
• Vuelta a España
• 1st Stages 3 & 16
• Eneco Tour
• 1st Stages 1 & 4
• 1st Stage 2 Tour of California
• 1st Stage 5 Tour of Belgium
• 1st Stage 4 Ster Elektrotoer
• 1st Stage 7 Tour of Austria
• 1st Stage 1 Tour de Wallonie
• 1st Stage 1 Circuit Franco-Belge
• 2nd Scheldeprijs
• 2nd Nationale Sluitingsprijs
• 4th Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne
• 8th E3 Prijs Vlaanderen
• 10th Paris–Tours

2009

• 1st MaillotBélgica.PNG Road race, National Road Championships
• 1st Jersey yellow.svg Overall Tour of Qatar
• 1st Stage 3
• 1st Paris–Roubaix
• 1st Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne
• 1st Stage 3 Eneco Tour
• 2nd Overall Circuit Franco-Belge
• 1st Stage 3
• 2nd E3 Prijs Vlaanderen
• 2nd Paris–Tours
• 3rd Dwars door Vlaanderen
• 4th Overall Ster Elektrotoer
• 10th Omloop Het Nieuwsblad

2010

• 1st Stage 2 Tirreno–Adriatico
• 1st Stage 5 Tour of Oman
• 2nd Milan–San Remo
• 2nd Tour of Flanders
• 2nd E3 Prijs Vlaanderen
• 3rd Overall Tour of Qatar
• 1st Stages 3 & 5
• 5th Paris–Roubaix

2011

• 1st Gent–Wevelgem
• 1st Stage 1 Tour of Qatar
• 4th Tour of Flanders
• 9th Dwars door Vlaanderen

2012

• 1st Gold medal blank.svg Team time trial, UCI Road World Championships
• 1st MaillotBélgica.PNG Road race, National Road Championships
• 1st Jersey yellow.svg Overall Tour of Qatar
• 1st Jersey grey.svg Points classification
• 1st Stages 1 & 4
• 1st Jersey light blue.svg Overall World Ports Classic
• 1st Jersey green.svg Points classification
• 1st Stage 1
• 1st Paris–Roubaix
• 1st Tour of Flanders
• 1st Gent–Wevelgem
• 1st E3 Harelbeke
• 1st Paris–Brussels
• 1st Stage 2 Paris–Nice
• 1st Stage 7 Tour de San Luis
• 2nd Omloop Het Nieuwsblad
• 4th Vattenfall Cyclassics

2013

• 1st Heistse Pijl
• 1st Stage 2 Tour de Wallonie
• 7th E3 Harelbeke

2014

• 1st Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne
• 1st Heistse Pijl
• Tour of Belgium
• 1st Stages 1 & 2
• 2nd Overall Tour of Qatar
• 1st Jersey grey.svg Points classification
• 1st Stages 2 & 4
• 3rd Bronze medal blank.svg Team time trial, UCI Road World Championships
• 3rd Road race, National Road Championships
• 5th Gent–Wevelgem
• 7th Tour of Flanders
• 10th Paris–Roubaix

2015

• 1st Rund um Köln
• 1st Münsterland Giro
• Tour of Belgium
• 1st Jersey blue.svg Points classification
• 1st Stage 1
• 1st Stage 3 Eneco Tour
• 2nd Silver medal blank.svg Team time trial, UCI Road World Championships
• 2nd Grand Prix de Fourmies
• 3rd Omloop Het Nieuwsblad
• 3rd Brussels Cycling Classic
• 4th Vattenfall Cyclassics
• 4th Grand Prix Pino Cerami
• 6th Road race, European Games
• 9th Overall Tour of Qatar

2016

• 1st London–Surrey Classic
• 1st Brussels Cycling Classic
• 1st Stage 1 Tour de Wallonie
• 2nd Paris–Roubaix
• 2nd Ronde van Limburg
• 3rd Bronze medal blank.svg Road race, UCI Road World Championships
• 3rd Tour de l’Eurométropole

2017

• 1st Stage 2 Vuelta a San Juan
• 6th Gent–Wevelgem
• 8th E3 Harelbeke

Tom Boonen Classic and Monuments Results Timeline