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Leif Hoste

Key Stats

Nationality: Belgian
Born: July 17, 1977
Hometown: Kortrijk, Belgium
Strengths: Time Trialing, Classics

Palmares

Career Highlights:

1st, Belgium national time trial championship 2001, 2006, 2007
2nd, Tour of Flanders 2004, 2006, 2007
2008
6th, Paris-Roubaix
7th, Het Volk

2007
1st, Belgian national time trial championship
2nd, Tour of Flanders

2006
1st, Belgian national time trial championship
1st overall, Three Days of De Panne (2 stage wins; 1st mountain competition)
2nd, Tour of Flanders

2005
3rd overall, Eneco Tour of Benelux

2004
2nd, Tour of Flanders
2nd overall, Tour de l'Ain

2003
2nd, Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne
3rd, GP Eddy Merckx

2001
1st, Belgian national time trial championship

2000
1st, Stage 3, Tour de la Région Wallonne

1998
1st, Stage 1, Tour de l'Avenir
1st, Stage 3, Circuito Montanes

Biography

Hoste has proven strength as a time trialist and Classics rider and returned to Lotto in 2007 after a two-year stint at Discovery. Hoste may best be remembered for the infamous train incident during the 2006 edition of Paris-Roubaix, when he and Peter Van Petegem were disqualified for riding past a railroad-crossing barrier as it was closing.