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Wikipedia / Mario Aerts

Mario Aerts (born 31 December 1974 in Herentals, Belgium) is a former professional road bicycle racer, who competed between 1996 and 2011. He competed for three teams: Vlaanderen 2002, and the Lotto team through various sponsorships, competing with that particular team for twelve seasons during his career. During this time, he raced in the Tours de France, the Giro d'Italia, and the Vuelta a España. In the 2007 cycling season, he finished in these three major stage races in cycling. He was only the 25th racer in the history of cycling to achieve this.

Aerts won the Grand Prix d'Isbergues in 1996, Circuit Franco Belge in 2001, the Giro della Provincia di Lucca in 2001, and most notably La Flèche Wallonne in 2002; he did not win a professional race after that. In June 2011, he announced his retirement as a professional cyclist at the end of the year, citing heart problems as the major cause. After retiring he would become an assistant for the team he rode for under its present name: Lotto-Soudal.

Major results

  1. 1994

  2. 1st Stage 6 Tour de Wallonie

  3. 1995

  4. 2nd Overall Tour de Wallonie

  5. 1996

  6. 1st Grand Prix d'Isbergues

  7. 9th Tour du Haut Var

  8. 1997

  9. 1st Overall Circuit Franco-Belge

    1. 1st Mountains classification

    5th Overall Circuito Montañés

  10. 9th Overall Regio-Tour

  11. 10th Overall Tour de Wallonie

  12. 1998

  13. 2nd Le Samyn

  14. 6th Veenendaal–Veenendaal

  15. 7th Japan Cup

  16. 9th Gran Premio de Llodio

  17. 1999

  18. 3rd Overall Route du Sud

  19. 3rd La Flèche Wallonne

  20. 4th Overall Tour of the Basque Country

  21. 4th Grand Prix Breitling

  22. 2000

  23. 5th La Flèche Wallonne

  24. 5th GP Ouest-France

  25. 2001

  26. 1st Overall Giro della Provincia di Lucca

  27. 3rd Overall Rheinland-Pfalz Rundfahrt

  28. 4th GP Miguel Induráin

  29. 4th Tour du Haut Var

  30. 5th GP Ouest-France

  31. 6th Overall Paris–Nice

  32. 9th Züri-Metzgete

  33. 2002

  34. 1st La Flèche Wallonne

  35. 3rd GP Miguel Induráin

  36. 5th Overall Tour of the Basque Country

  37. 8th Overall Critérium International

  38. 9th Overall Paris–Nice

  39. 2004

  40. 6th Veenendaal–Veenendaal

  41. 2006

  42. 3rd Overall Settimana Internazionale di Coppi e Bartali

  43. 2007

  44. 9th Brabantse Pijl

  45. 2008

  46. 8th Road race, Olympic Games

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