Full name Mario Aerts 1998–2002 Lotto-Mobistar Height 1.82 m 1996–1997 Vlaanderen 2002 Role Bicycler | Discipline Road Name Mario Aerts Current team Retired 2003–2004 Team Telekom Weight 68 kg | |
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Born 31 December 1974 (age 49)
Herentals, Belgium ( 1974-12-31 ) Competitors Philippe Gilbert, Cadel Evans, Adam Hansen, Yaroslav Popovych, Maxime Monfort Similar People Rik Verbrugghe, Carlos Sastre, Andy Schleck | ||
Mario Aerts about the Mur de Huy
Mario Aerts (born 31 December 1974 in Herentals, Belgium) is a former professional road bicycle racer, who competed between 1996 and 2011. He competed for three teams; Vlaanderen 2002, Team Telekom and the Lotto team through various sponsorships, competing with that particular team for twelve seasons during his career. During this time he raced in the Tours de France, the Giro d'Italia, and the Vuelta a España. In the 2007 cycling season, he finished in these three major stage races in cycling. He was only the 25th racer in the history of cycling to achieve this.
Aerts won the Grand Prix d'Isbergues in 1996, Circuit Franco Belge in 2001, the Giro della Provincia di Lucca in 2001, and most notably La Flèche Wallonne in 2002; he did not won a professional race after that. In June 2011, he announced his retirement as a professional cyclist at the end of the year, citing heart problems as the major cause.
