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Chantal van den Broek-Blaak (née Blaak; born 22 October 1989) is a Dutch road racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam Team SD Worx–Protime. In 2017 she became world road race champion in Bergen, Norway.




Career






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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

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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. 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. In the rainbow jersey, she won the Amstel Gold Race in 2018.
2019 saw Chantal Blaak win Omloop Het Nieuwsblad for the first time. In 2020, she enhanced her resume by winning the Tour of Flanders for Women. A year later, she won Strade Bianche Women.
She sat out of the 2023 season after announcing her pregnancy in January at her team's presentation. She returned to racing in 2024, becoming Dutch national champion for the third time.




Personal life


In the 2019 off-season, Chantal Blaak married former cyclist Lars van den Broek.




Major results






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Notes






References






External links



Official website
Chantal van den Broek-Blaak at UCI
Chantal van den Broek-Blaak at Cycling Archives (archived)
Chantal van den Broek-Blaak at ProCyclingStats
Chantal van den Broek-Blaak at CQ Ranking
Chantal van den Broek-Blaak at CycleBase
Chantal Blaak at Team Tibco at the Wayback Machine (archived 1 February 2014)

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• Chantal van den Broek-Blaak
• Team SD Worx–Protime
• 2021 UCI Women's World Tour
• 2020 Tour of Flanders for Women
• Cycling monument
• List of teams and cyclists in the 2024 Giro d'Italia Women
• 2022 Tour of Flanders for Women
• Tour of Flanders (women)
• 2021 Strade Bianche Women
• 2024 national road cycling championships