Jeroen Johannes Hendrikus Blijlevens (born December 29, 1971 in Gilze en Rijen

Gilze en Rijen

Gilze en Rijen is a municipality in the southern Netherlands. The municipality contains four villages Rijen, Gilze, Hulten and Molenschot.Rijen grew in the 19th century due to its leather factories.- Population centres :*Rijen...

, North Brabant

North Brabant

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) is a retired road bicycle racer from the Netherlands

Netherlands

The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

, who was a professional rider from 1994 to 2004.

Nicknamed Jerommeke, he was one of Holland's leading sprinters in the 1990s, claiming victories in the three big races (Tour de France

Tour de France

The Tour de France is an annual bicycle race held in France and nearby countries. First staged in 1903, the race covers more than and lasts three weeks. As the best known and most prestigious of cycling's three "Grand Tours", the Tour de France attracts riders and teams from around the world. The...

, Vuelta

Vuelta

Vuelta may refer to:*Vuelta a España, a cycling race in Spain*Vuelta , published in Mexico by Octavio Paz*Vuelta , a record by Richard Shindell*Vuelta , an Argentine motion picture of 1997...

 and Giro d'Italia

Giro d'Italia

The Giro d'Italia , also simply known as The Giro, is a long distance road bicycle racing stage race for professional cyclists held over three weeks in May/early June in and around Italy. The Giro is one of the three Grand Tours , and is part of the UCI World Ranking calendar...

). He won a total number of 74 races in his professional career. Today he is a cycling co-commentator at Eurosport Netherlands.

Palmarès

1992

PWZ Zuidenveld Tour

1993

GP de Lillers

1995

Draai van de Kaai

Profronde van Pijnacker

Ronde van Midden-Zeeland

Delta Profronde

Delta Profronde is a single-day road bicycle race held annually in June in Zeeland, Netherlands. Since 2005, the race is organized as a 1.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour. It was previously known as Ronde van Midden-Zeeland and it was an amateur race between 1959 and 1973.- Winners :...

Trofeo Alcudia

Made

Tour de France

1995 Tour de France

The 1995 Tour de France was the 82nd Tour de France, taking place July 1 to July 23, 1995. It was Miguel Indurain's fifth and final victory in the Tour. On the fifteenth stage Italian rider Fabio Casartelli died after an accident on the Col de Portet d'Aspet....

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Winner stage 5

Vuelta a España

1995 Vuelta a España

The 50th Vuelta a España , a long-distance bicycle stage race and one of the 3 grand tours, was held from September 2 to September 24, 1995. It consisted of 21 stages covering a total of 3750 km, and was won by Laurent Jalabert of the ONCE cycling team...

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Winner stage 10

1996

Draai van de Kaai

Trofeo Mallorca

Profronde van Heerlen

Tour de France

1996 Tour de France

The 1996 Tour de France was the 83rd Tour de France, starting on June 29 and ending on July 21, featuring 19 regular stages, 2 individual time trials, a prologue and a rest day ....

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Winner stage 5

Vuelta a España

1996 Vuelta a España

The 51st Vuelta a España , a long-distance bicycle stage race and one of the 3 grand tours, was held from September 6 to September 28, 1996. It consisted of 22 stages covering a total of 3,898 km, and was won by Alex Zülle of the ONCE cycling team.-External links:*...

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Winner stage 5

1997

Hengelo

Veenendaal–Veenendaal

Profronde van Wateringen

Profronde van Surhuisterveen

Tour de France

1997 Tour de France

The 1997 Tour de France was the 84th Tour de France, it took place July 5–27, 1997. Jan Ullrich's victory margin, of 9' 09" was the largest margin of victory since Laurent Fignon won the 1984 Tour de France by 10' 32"...

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Winner stage 6

1998

Woerden

Tour de France

1998 Tour de France

The 1998 Tour de France, also called the Tour du Dopage , was marred by doping scandals throughout known as the Festina affair, starting with the arrest of Willy Voet, a soigneur in the French Festina team. Voet was traveling into France when he was arrested and found with large quantities of...

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Winner stage 4

Vuelta a España

1998 Vuelta a España

The 53rd edition of the Vuelta a España was held 5 to 27 September 1998 and began in Córdoba and ended in Madrid. The 1998 Vuelta had 22 stages over 3,774 km with the winning average speed of 40.262 km/h....

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Winner stages 2 and 5

1999

Grand Prix de Denain

Grand Prix de Denain

Grand Prix de Denain is a professional cycle road race held in Denain, France. Since 2005 the race is organized as a 1.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour, also being part of the Coupe de France de cyclisme sur route....

Profronde van Pijnacker

Trofeo Mallorca

Nokere-Koerse

Nokere-Koerse

Nokere Koerse is a European semi classic single day cycle race held in the Belgian region of Flanders. Since 2005, the race has been organized as a 1.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour....

Grote Scheldeprijs

Grote Scheldeprijs

The Scheldeprijs is a Flanders Classics cycling race which starts in Antwerp and finishes in Schoten. The event, ranked at 1.HC on the UCI European calendar, is seen as a race for sprinters, held on flat roads over roughly 200 kilometres. The race is one circuit of 155 kilometres into the...

Made

Profronde van Stiphout

Dwars door Gendringen

Vuelta a España

1999 Vuelta a España

The 1999 Vuelta a España was the 54th Vuelta a España, taking place from September 4 starting in Murcia and finishing in Madrid on September 26, 1999. It consisted of 21 stages over 3576 km, ridden at an average speed of 39.449 km/h. The favourites were Laurent Jalabert, Alex Zülle, Jan...

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Winner stage 21

Giro d'Italia

1999 Giro d'Italia

The 1999 Giro d'Italia of cycling, the 82nd edition of the race, was held from 15 May to 6 June 1999. It covered in 22 stages. It was won by the Italian Ivan Gotti....

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Winner stages 3 and 7

2000

Mijl van Mares

2003

Ruddervoorde