2007 Vrienden van het Platteland season

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2007 Vrienden van het Platteland
UCI Team ranking23rd
ManagerJan van Dam
Season victories
One-day racesRoad: 2
Track: 1
Stage race overall0
Stage race stages1
Best ranked riderEllen van Dijk (37th)
Vrienden van het Platteland jersey 2007.jpg
Jersey
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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
  (NED) (1986-07-01)July 1, 1986 (aged 20)
  (NED) (1987-06-07)June 7, 1987 (aged 19)
  (AUS) (1983-02-02)February 2, 1983 (aged 23)
 Ellen van Dijk (NED) (1987-02-11)February 11, 1987 (aged 19)
  (NED) (1987-02-09)February 9, 1987 (aged 19)
 Emma Mackie (AUS) (1984-09-09)September 9, 1984 (aged 22)
Rider Date of birth
 Anita Valen (NOR) (1968-12-12)December 12, 1968 (aged 38)
 Monique van de Ree (NED) (1988-03-02)March 2, 1988 (aged 18)
  (NED) (1986-04-25)April 25, 1986 (aged 20)
  (NED) (1983-04-24)April 24, 1983 (aged 23)
  (NED) (1982-09-30)September 30, 1982 (aged 24)

Sources[2][3]

Season[]

The first podium place for the team was a third place for 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[]

See also: 2007 in women's road cycling
Single day and stage races 2007[9]
Date Nation Race Cat. Winner
3 June  China Stage 1 Tour of Chongming Island 2.2 Netherlands Ellen van Dijk
National, Continental and World champions 2007[9]
Date Discipline Jersey Winner
29 June Norwegian National Time Trial Champion MaillotNoruega.PNG Anita Valen
15 August Dutch national time trial champion Jersey dutchflag.svg Ellen van Dijk
30 December Dutch National Track Cycling Champion – Individual pursuit Jersey dutchflag.svg Ellen van Dijk

Results in major races[]

Results at the 2007 UCI Women's Road World Cup races
# Date Race Country Best rider Place
#1 3 March Geelong World Cup  Australia - -
#2 8 April Tour of Flanders for Women  Belgium Netherlands Ellen van Dijk[W 1] 40th
#3 12 April Ronde van Drenthe  Netherlands Netherlands Ellen van Dijk 15th
#4 25 April La Flèche Wallonne Féminine  Belgium - -
#5 13 May Tour de Berne   Switzerland - -
#6 2 June La Coupe du Monde Cycliste Féminine de Montréal  Canada - -
#7 5 August Open de Suède Vårgårda  Sweden Norway Anita Valen 13th
#8 1 September GP de Plouay  France - -
#9 16 September Rund um die Nürnberger Altstadt  Germany Norway Anita Valen 15th
  1. ^ As part of the Dutch national team
Results in other major single day races
Date Race[M 1] Rider Place
3 July European Road Championships – Women's under-23 time trial Netherlands Ellen van Dijk 5th
5 July European Road Championships – Women's under-23 road race Netherlands Ellen van Dijk 11th
23 September Road World Championships – Women's time trial[10] Netherlands Ellen van Dijk 17th
  1. ^ Riders are in these championships part of the national team

UCI World Ranking[]

Main article: 2007 UCI Women's Road World Rankings

The team finished 23rd in the UCI ranking for teams.[1]

Individual UCI World Ranking[1]
Rank Rider Points
37 Netherlands Ellen van Dijk 145
120 Norway Anita Valen 34
145 Netherlands 22
356 Netherlands Monique van de Ree 3

References[]

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ "2007 Roster". cyclingarchives.com. Retrieved 15 February 2013.
  3. ^ "2007 Roster". cqranking.com. Retrieved 15 February 2013.
  4. ^ "Vrienden van het Platteland (VVP) - UCI 2007". CQranking.com. Retrieved 5 December 2014.
  5. ^ "Results of Ellen van Dijk in 2007". CQranking.com. Retrieved 5 September 2012.
  6. ^ "Ellen van Dijk, sportvrouw van 2007". Wourdense Courant. 18 December 2007. Archived from the original on 4 October 2013. Retrieved 3 October 2013.
  7. ^ Ellen van Dijk. "Biography of Ellen van Dijk". Ellenvandijk.nl. Retrieved 4 September 2012.
  8. ^ "Ellen van Dijk (cyclingarchives)". Cyclingarchives.com. Retrieved 5 September 2012.
  9. ^ a b "2007 Vrienden van het platteland". procyclingstats.com. Retrieved 1 March 2014.
  10. ^ "2007 World Championships WE - ITT (CM)". procyclingstats.com. Retrieved 29 July 2014.

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