Karsten Kroon

Karsten Kroon
	Kroon at the 2012 Tour de France
Personal information
Full name	Karsten Kroon
Born	29 January 1976 (age 48); Dalen, the Netherlands
Height	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Weight	67 kg (148 lb; 10.6 st)
Team information
Current team	Retired
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Rider type	Classics rider
Professional teams
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Major wins
	Grand Tours Tour de France 1 individual stage (2002) Single-day races and Classics Rund um den Henninger Turm (2004, 2008)

Karsten Kroon (born 29 January 1976) is a Dutch former professional road bicycle racer who most recently rode for You have called {{Contentious topics}}. You probably meant to call one of these templates instead:

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Career

Born in Dalen, Kroon showed his talent as an amateur by winning the professional Ronde van Drenthe in 1996. He joined the You have called {{Contentious topics}}. You probably meant to call one of these templates instead:

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On 10 August 2005 he said that, until 2007, he was to ride for Saxo Bank. He wanted more freedom. "I've never said that I want to be leader," he told Cyclingnews.com, "I only want to get chances".^[5] In March and April 2006, he was joint team captain in ProTour races. He finished in the top ten of Tirreno–Adriatico and the Tour of Flanders. He helped Fränk Schleck win the Amstel Gold Race by disrupting the chase when Schleck attacked; Kroon finished fourth.^[6] Kroon finally finished on the podium, in La Flèche Wallonne, third in front of Schleck. He also came second in the 2009 Amstel Gold Race, just behind Serguei Ivanov.

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Doping

On 24 April 2018, it was reported that Kroon had confessed to doping for "a short period during my career". He added: "I was a professional cyclist in a very difficult time and I have a lot of respect for my colleagues who resisted the temptation to use doping."^[8]