Chantal van den Broek-Blaak
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Chantal van den Broek-Blaak (née Blaak; born 22 October 1989) is a Dutch road racing cyclist, who last rode for UCI Women's WorldTeam Team SD Worx–Protime. In 2017 she became world road race champion in Bergen, Norway. Van den Broek-Blaak also won several classic one-day races including Tour of Flanders, Amstel Gold Race and Strade Bianche. She retired in January 2025.
Career
Junior career
Van den Broek-Blaak was the Dutch national junior time trial champion 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.
Professional career
Van den Broek-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 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.
She transferred to the Boels–Dolmans team for 2015, along with sponsors Specialized Bicycle Components and lululemon Athletica and teammate Evelyn Stevens. She won the 2015 Le Samyn des Dames.
2016 was her most successful season to date, yielding wins in Le Samyn des Dames, the Ronde van Drenthe, Gent–Wevelgem and the Holland Ladies Tour.
In 2017, van den Broek-Blaak became both Dutch national and world road race champion after she successfully broke away from an elite group of riders 8 kilometres (5.0 miles) from the finish. In the rainbow jersey, she won the Amstel Gold Race in 2018.
2019 saw Chantal Blaak win Omloop Het Nieuwsblad for the first time. In 2020, she enhanced her resume by winning the Tour of Flanders for Women. A year later, she won Strade Bianche Women.
She sat out of the 2023 season after announcing her pregnancy in January at her team's presentation. She returned to racing in 2024, becoming Dutch national champion for the third time.
In January 2025, she announced her retirement as she is expecting a second child – having originally planned to retire at the end of the 2025 season.
Personal life
In the 2019 off-season, Chantal Blaak married former cyclist Lars van den Broek.
Major results
2007
1st Time trial, National Junior Road Championships
UCI Juniors World Championships 5th Time trial 10th Road race
2008
2009
1st Road race, UEC European Under-23 Road Championships
2nd Road race, National Road Championships
8th Overall Holland Ladies Tour
10th Ronde van Gelderland
2010
6th Tour of Flanders
9th Road race, UEC European Under-23 Road Championships
2011
1st Erondegemse Pijl
3rd Road race, National Road Championships
4th GP de Plouay
5th Overall Holland Ladies Tour
8th Road race, UEC European Under-23 Road Championships
10th Overall Ster Zeeuwsche Eilanden 1st Stage 2
3rd Team time trial, UCI Road World Championships
8th Overall Energiewacht Tour
2013
3rd Chrono Gatineau
7th Grand Prix cycliste de Gatineau
8th Overall Holland Ladies Tour
9th Overall Belgium Tour
1st Team time trial, UCI Road World Championships
1st Drentse 8
1st Open de Suède Vårgårda TTT
1st Stage 5 Energiewacht Tour
4th Ronde van Drenthe World Cup
5th Novilon EDR Cup
2015
1st Le Samyn
1st Stage 3 Emakumeen Euskal Bira
2nd Team time trial, UCI Road World Championships
3rd Time trial, National Road Championships
4th Time trial, EPZ Omloop van Borsele
5th Gooik–Geraardsbergen–Gooik
9th Tour of Flanders
2016
1st Team time trial, UCI Road World Championships
1st Overall Holland Ladies Tour 1st Stage 2 (TTT)
1st Le Samyn
1st Gent–Wevelgem
Crescent Vårgårda 1st Team time trial 3rd Road race
Energiewacht Tour 1st Stages 1 (TTT) & 2
2nd Time trial, National Road Championships
3rd Tour of Flanders
4th Madrid Challenge by La Vuelta
5th Gooik–Geraardsbergen–Gooik
2017
UCI Road World Championships 1st Road race 2nd Team time trial
1st Road race, National Road Championships
Healthy Ageing Tour 1st Stages 2 (TTT) & 4
1st Stage 1 (TTT) Giro d'Italia Femminile
3rd Tour of Flanders
6th Overall Holland Ladies Tour
8th Gent–Wevelgem
2018
1st Road race, National Road Championships
1st Amstel Gold Race
1st Postnord UCI WWT Vårgårda WestSweden TTT
1st Stage 5 Holland Ladies Tour
2nd Team time trial, UCI Road World Championships
2nd Overall Healthy Ageing Tour 1st Stages 3b (TTT) & 4
4th Strade Bianche
5th Tour of Flanders
2019
2nd Time trial, European Games
7th Tour of Flanders
10th Strade Bianche
2020
1st Le Samyn des Dames
1st Tour of Flanders
4th Road race, UEC European Road Championships
2021
1st Overall Holland Ladies Tour
1st Strade Bianche
1st Dwars door het Hageland
1st Drentse Acht van Westerveld
10th Paris–Roubaix
2022
3rd Tour of Flanders
8th Paris–Roubaix
2024
1st Road race, National Road Championships
General classification results timeline
| Stage race | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grand Tour results timeline | |||||||||||||||
| Giro d'Italia Femminile | 62 | 43 | — | — | 38 | 49 | — | 40 | 50 | — | 18 | DNF | — | — | DNF |
| Tour de France Femmes | Race did not exist | 49 | — | — | |||||||||||
| Stage race results timeline | |||||||||||||||
| Stage race | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
| Simac Ladies Tour | 26 | 5 | 18 | 8 | 19 | — | 1 | 6 | 15 | DNF | NH | 1 | 16 | — | — |
| Tour de Suisse | Race not held | — | — | — | 59 |
Classics results timeline
| Monument | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tour of Flanders | DNF | 34 | 6 | 24 | 27 | 40 | 27 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 1 | 19 | 3 |
| Paris–Roubaix | Race did not exist | NH | 10 | 8 | |||||||||||
| Liège–Bastogne–Liège | Race did not exist | 35 | 43 | 45 | 24 | 29 | DNF | ||||||||
| Classic | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 |
| Omloop Het Nieuwsblad | 64 | 4 | 25 | 3 | 28 | 7 | DNF | 4 | 2 | 2 | 15 | 1 | 4 | 11 | 38 |
| Strade Bianche | Race did not exist | — | — | — | 4 | 10 | 29 | 1 | 16 | ||||||
| Ronde van Drenthe | 59 | 3 | 5 | 55 | 19 | DNF | 4 | 26 | 1 | 9 | 62 | 2 | NH | 21 | — |
| Trofeo Alfredo Binda-Comune di Cittiglio | — | 8 | 59 | 6 | 68 | 5 | 27 | 32 | 12 | 4 | 2 | 11 | 31 | 4 | |
| Gent–Wevelgem | Race did not exist | — | — | — | — | 1 | 8 | 31 | 71 | — | — | 44 | |||
| Amstel Gold Race | Race did not exist | 11 | 1 | 43 | NH | 52 | 53 | ||||||||
| La Flèche Wallonne | — | 43 | 36 | 48 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | DNF | 21 | — | 92 |
| GP de Plouay – Bretagne | — | 26 | 11 | 4 | 52 | 35 | — | — | — | — | — | 57 | 45 | — | 50 |
| Open de Suède Vårgårda | DNF | DNF | 7 | 52 | — | 47 | 1 | 27 | 3 | 34 | 44 | — | Not held | 57 |
Major championship results timeline
| Event | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rainbow jersey World Championships | Time trial | — | — | — | — | — | — | 13 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Road race | — | 23 | DNF | 98 | — | — | 17 | 61 | 50 | 1 | 44 | 43 | 12 | 32 | — | — | — | |
| European Championships | Road race | Race did not exist | 45 | 62 | 23 | 28 | 4 | DNF | — | — | — | |||||||
| European Games | Time trial | Event did not exist | — | Not Held | 2 | Not Held | — | NH | ||||||||||
| Road race | DNF | 66 | — | |||||||||||||||
| National Championships | Time trial | 11 | 9 | 10 | — | — | 9 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 5 | — | NH | — | — | — | — |
| Road race | 42 | 2 | 11 | 3 | — | 26 | 19 | 10 | 34 | 1 | 1 | 13 | 7 | 41 | 26 | — | 1 |
| — | Did not compete |
| DNF | Did not finish |
| NH | Not held |
Notes
External links
- atUCI
- atCycling Archives()
- atProCyclingStats
- atCQ Ranking
- atCycleBase()
- at theWayback Machine(archived 1 February 2014)