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.

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.

Sources^[2]^[3]

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]

Single day and stage races 2007^[9]
Date	Nation	Race	Cat.	Winner
3 June	China	Stage 1 Tour of Chongming Island	2.2	Ellen van Dijk

National, Continental and World champions 2007^[9]
Date	Discipline	Winner
29 June	Norwegian National Time Trial Champion	Anita Valen
15 August	Dutch national time trial champion	Ellen van Dijk
30 December	Dutch National Track Cycling Champion – Individual pursuit	Ellen van Dijk

Results at the 2007 UCI Women's Road World Cup races
#	Date	Race	Country	Best rider	Place
#1	000000002016-03-03-00003 March	Geelong World Cup	Australia	-	-
#2	000000002016-04-08-00008 April	Tour of Flanders for Women	Belgium	Ellen van Dijk^{[W 1]}	40th
#3	000000002016-04-12-000012 April	Ronde van Drenthe	Netherlands	Ellen van Dijk	15th
#4	000000002016-04-25-000025 April	La Flèche Wallonne Féminine	Belgium	-	-
#5	000000002016-05-13-000013 May	Tour de Berne	Switzerland	-	-
#6	000000002016-06-02-00002 June	La Coupe du Monde Cycliste Féminine de Montréal	Canada	-	-
#7	000000002016-08-05-00005 August	Open de Suède Vårgårda	Sweden	Anita Valen	13th
#8	000000002016-09-01-00001 September	GP de Plouay	France	-	-
#9	000000002016-09-16-000016 September	Rund um die Nürnberger Altstadt	Germany	Anita Valen	15th

Results in other major single day races
Date	Race^{[M 1]}	Rider	Place
3 July	European Road Championships – Women's under-23 time trial	Ellen van Dijk	5th
5 July	European Road Championships – Women's under-23 road race	Ellen van Dijk	11th
23 September	Road World Championships – Women's time trial ^[10]	Ellen van Dijk	17th

The team finished 23rd in the UCI ranking for teams.^[1]

1 2 3 "Ranking - Cycling - Road 2007 Women Elite UCI Ranking Individual Final result". UCI. Retrieved 3 September 2013.
↑ "2007 Roster". cyclingarchives.com. Retrieved 15 February 2013.
↑ "2007 Roster". cqranking.com. Retrieved 15 February 2013.
↑ "Vrienden van het Platteland (VVP) - UCI 2007". CQranking.com. Retrieved 5 December 2014.
↑ "Results of Ellen van Dijk in 2007". CQranking.com. Retrieved 5 September 2012.
↑ "Ellen van Dijk, sportvrouw van 2007". Wourdense Courant. 18 December 2007. Retrieved 3 October 2013.
↑ Ellen van Dijk. "Biography of Ellen van Dijk". Ellenvandijk.nl. Retrieved 4 September 2012.
↑ "Ellen van Dijk (cyclingarchives)". Cyclingarchives.com. Retrieved 5 September 2012.
1 2 "2007 Vrienden van het platteland". procyclingstats.com. Retrieved 1 March 2014.
↑ "2007 World Championships WE - ITT (CM)". procyclingstats.com. Retrieved 29 July 2014.

Vrienden van het Platteland seasons

2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008

← 2006 • 2007 road cycling season by team • 2008 →

List of 2007 UCI Women's Teams and riders

Elk Haus Team Uniqa Vlaanderen–Caprisonne–T Interim Lotto–Belisol Ladiesteam Team Expresscopy.com Pratomagno Colombia Team CMAX Dila–Guerciotti–Cogeas Bizkaia–Panda Software–Durango Valencian Community Vienne Futuroscope Team Pro Feminin du Genevois Entente Sportive Gervais Lilas 93 (ESGL93) Les Pruneaux d'Agen Global Racing Team Rapha/Condor Equipe Nürnberger Versicherung T–Mobile Women Team Getränke–Hoffmann Giant Pro Cycling A.S. Team F.R.W Fenixs–HPB Safi–Pasta Zara Manhattan USC Chirio Forno d'Asolo Menikini Gysko Saccarelli Emu Sea Marsciano S.C. Michela Fanini Record Rox Top Girls Fassa Bortolo Raxy Line Therme Skin Care AA–Drink Cycling Team Team DSB Bank Vrienden van het Platteland Team Flexpoint POL–Aqua Primus Petrogradets Raleigh Lifeforce Creation HB Pro Cycling Team Bigla Cycling Team Team Specialized Designs for Women Team Lipton Cheerwine Colavita/Sutter Home Presented By Cooking Light Verducci Breakaway Racing

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