Chantal Blaak

Chantal Blaak

Blaak after winning 2015 Le Samyn des Dames
Personal information
Nickname	Blaaki
Born	(1989-10-22) October 22, 1989 Zuidland, Netherlands
Height	1.76 m (5 ft 9 in)
Team information
Current team	Boels–Dolmans
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Professional team(s)
2008–12	AA Drink Cycling Team
2013	TIBCO / To The Top
2014	Specialized–lululemon
2015–	Boels–Dolmans
Major wins
UCI Road World Cup Open de Suède Vårgårda (2014) UCI Women's WorldTour Ronde van Drenthe (2016) Gent–Wevelgem (2016) One day races Drentse 8 (2014) Le Samyn des Dames (2015, 2016)
Medal record Representing Team Specialized–lululemon World Championships 2014 Ponferrada Team Time Trial
Infobox last updated on 12 March 2016

Chantal Blaak is a Dutch road racing cyclist. She was the Dutch national time trial champion as a junior 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.

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 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. Subsequently it was announced that Blaak would leave the team, along with sponsors Specialized Bicycle Components and lululemon Athletica and team-mate Evelyn Stevens to the Boels Dolmans Cycling Team for 2015.^[1]

2015

In the Le Samyn des Dames team mate Ellen van Dijk closed a gap with the front group in the final kilometres. After closing the gap she was the leadout for Blaak who sprinted to victory.

Major results

References

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External links

• Chantal Blaak profile at Cycling Archives
• Team Tibco: Chantal Blaak

UCI Road World Champions – Women's team time trial
National teams	1987: Soviet Union (Kibardina, Jakovleva, Poliakova, Pogovitchaikova) 1988: Italy (Bandini, Bonanomi, Canins, Galli) 1989: Soviet Union (Kibardina, Poliakova, Zilporytė, Melekhina) 1990: Netherlands (Van Moorsel, Knol, Westland, Schop) 1991: France (Clignet, Gendron, Odin, Marsal) 1992: United States (Stephenson, Golay, Bolland, Bankaitis-Davis) 1993–1994: Russia (Sokolova, Bubnenkova, Polkhanova, Koliaseva)
Trade teams	2012: Team Specialized–lululemon (Van Dijk, Becker, Neben, Stevens, Teutenberg, Worrack) 2013: Specialized–lululemon (Van Dijk, Brennauer, Stevens, Small, Colclough, Worrack) 2014: Specialized–lululemon (Blaak, Brennauer, Canuel, Small, Stevens, Worrack) 2015: Velocio–SRAM (Amialiusik, Brennauer, Canuel, Guarischi, Kröger, Worrack) 2016: Boels–Dolmans (Blaak, Canuel, Deignan, Majerus, Stevens, van Dijk)