2007 Vrienden van het Platteland 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.

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)
Jersey

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]

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
See also: 2007 in women's road cycling
Single day and stage races 2007[9]
DateNationRaceCat.Winner
3 June ChinaStage 1 Tour of Chongming Island2.2Netherlands Ellen van Dijk
National, Continental and World champions 2007[9]
DateDisciplineJerseyWinner
29 JuneNorwegian National Time Trial ChampionAnita Valen
15 AugustDutch national time trial championEllen van Dijk
30 DecemberDutch National Track Cycling Champion – Individual pursuitEllen 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 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
37Netherlands Ellen van Dijk145
120Norway Anita Valen34
145Netherlands Jaccolien Wallaard22
356Netherlands Monique van de Ree3

References
  1. "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. "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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