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Mario Aerts
Key Stats
Team: Silence-Lotto
Nationality: Belgian
Born: December 31, 1974
Hometown: Herentals, Belgium
Residence: Molenstede, Belgium
Height: 5-foot-11
Weight: 144 pounds
Strengths: Climbing, one-day events and a solid support rider in stage races
Turned Pro: 1997
Palmares
Career Highlights:
1st, Flèche Wallonne 2002
1st overall, Giro della Provincia di Lucca 2001
1st, Circuit Franco-Belge 1997
1st, GP d'Isbergues 1996
2006
3rd, Settimana Coppi-Bartali
2002
1st, Flèche Wallonne
2nd, Stages 15 and 17, Tour de France
2nd, Mountains classification, Tour de France
3rd, GP Miguel Indurain
2001
1st, Giro Della Provincia di Lucca
3rd overall, Rheinland-Pfalz Rundfahrt
1999
2nd, Best Young Rider Competition, Tour de France
3rd, Flèche Wallonne
3rd overall, Route de Sud
1997
1st, overall and mountains classification, Circuit Franco Belge
1st, mountains classification, Circuit Montanes
1996
1st overall, GP Isbergues
Biography
A professional since 1997, Aerts has ridden for four different teams. In 2007 Aerts became only the 25th rider in history to have finished all three grand tours in a single season. At the Tour de France, he finished second in the race for the polka-dot mountains jersey in 2002 and second in the white best young rider classification in 1999.