Mario Aerts

Mario Aerts

Personal information
Full name	Mario Aerts
Born	31 December 1974 (1974-12-31) (age 36)  Belgium
Height	1.82 m
Weight	68 kg
Team information
Current team	Omega Pharma-Lotto
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Professional team(s)
1996–1997 1998–2002 2003–2004 2005–	Vlaanderen 2002 Lotto-Mobistar Team Telekom Davitamon-Lotto
Major wins
2001 Circuit Franco Belge 2002 La Flèche Wallonne
Infobox last updated on 28 January 2007

Mario Aerts (born 31 December 1974 in Herentals, Belgium) is a professional road bicycle racer since 1997. He has since shifted residence to Molenstede and currently rides for Omega Pharma-Lotto, and has done so since 2005 under the team's various names.

He has been a professional cyclist since 1997 and has ridden in four different teams. During this time he has raced in the Tours de France, the Giro d'Italia, and the Vuelta. In the 2007 cycling season, he finished in these three major stage races in cycling. He is only the 25th racer in the history of cycling to achieve this.

He has overall won GP d'Isbergues in 1996, Circuit Franco Belge in 2001, Giro della Provincia di Lucca in 2001, and most notably La Flèche Wallonne in 2002; he has not won a professional race since. In June 2011, he announced his retirment as a professional cyclist at the end of the year, citing heart problems as the major cause.

Palmares

1994

1st, Stage 6 Tour de Wallonie

1995

2nd Overall Tour de Wallonie

1996

1st GP d'Isbergues

1997

1st Overall Circuit Franco-Belge

Mountains Competition

1999

3rd La Flèche Wallonne

3rd Overall Route du Sud

21st Overall Tour de France

2000

5th La Flèche Wallonne

28th Overall Tour de France

2001

27th Overall Tour de France

1st Overall Giro della Provincia di Lucca

2002

1st La Flèche Wallonne

2005

15th Overall Vuelta a España

2006

3rd Overall Settimana internazionale di Coppi e Bartali

2007

20th Overall Giro d'Italia

70th Overall Tour de France

28th Overall Vuelta a España

2008

31st Overall Tour de France

8th Men's Olympics road race

External links

• Official website
• Mario Aerts profile at Cycling Archives

Persondata
Name	Aerts, Mario
Alternative names
Short description	Belgian cyclist
Date of birth	December 31, 1974
Place of birth	Herentals, Belgium
Date of death
Place of death