A look a🌞t back at some of the key momen♋ts in the Belgian's illustrious career
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B💫oonen in the Belgian National Champion jersey during the 2009 Tour de France(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Tom Boonen's first Paris-Roubaix victory, 2005(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Boonen raises his arms as he realises he haꩵs become World Champion in 2♚005(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Alberto Contador, Tom Boonen and two dolphins(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
A determined Boonen drills the front of the race(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Boonen attempts 🅷to chase Fabian Cancellara during the famous Muur attack in the 2010 Tour of Flanders(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
A visibly upset Boonen following Can💎cellara's victory at the Tour of Flanders(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Boonen involved in a huge crash during a sprin🦋t at the 2010 Tour de Suisse(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Tom Boonen meets Lance Armstrong for a chat in🐈 2010(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Gent-Wevelgem victory 2011(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Ales🐼sandro Ballan and Tom Boonen during the 2012 E3 Harelbe♈ke(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
The 2012 E3 Harelbeke podium(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
A young Peter Sagan🃏 🌜and Tom Boonen go toe-to-toe during the 2012 Gent-Wevelgem(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Cancellara, Boonen and Flecha during the 2010 ℱE3 Prijs Vlaanderen(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
A second pace was Bꦿoonen's best Milan-San Remo result in thirteen attempts(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Tom Boonen and Fabian Cancellara during 🀅the 2008 E3 Harelbeke(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Boonen was victorious at 💟Paris-Roubaix again i💃n 2008(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Cancellara congra♋tulates Boonen on the Roubaix podium(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
A premature celebration costs Boonen victory to a young Mark Caveไndish at Scheldeprijs, 2008(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Vuelta a Espana stage victory 2008(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Fans offer Boon🍸en a beer following the 2009 Kuurne-Brussel-Kuurne(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
A solo breakaway at Paris-Roubaix for Boonen(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Patrick Lefevre congratulates Boonen in the Roubaix velodro💦me(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Boonen's first Belgian National Title, 2009(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
The 2012 Tour of Flanders podium(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Tom Boonen's silouhette following𝐆 the 2012 Paꩵris-Roubaix(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
A young Peter Sagan edges out Tom Boonen in a 20𒐪12 Tour of California stage(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Boonen during the 2016 E3 Harelbeke(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Boon♓en puts the hammer down during the 2016 Paris-Roubaix(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Mat Hayman victorious at Paris-Roubaix, 2016(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Tom Boonen leads the 2016 Tour de Wallonie(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Tom Boonen and Peter Sagan greet each🅰other at the 𒈔GP Montreal(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
🍸Boonen thinks what might've been following his 2016 World Championshඣips podium(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Boonen congratulates the two-time World Champion(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Sagan wins his second World Championships(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Boonen celebrates victory in San Juan, 2017(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
A mechanic pushes Boonen away during the 2016 🎶Volta a🐓o Algarve(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Boonen down after a horrific ꦦcrash at the Abu𒁃 Dhabi Tour that nearly ended his career(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Boonen celebrates Rund um Koln victory, 2015(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Boonen gets instructions from the team car at t🌟he Eneco Tour(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Omega-Pharma Quick-Step on their way to Team Time Trial victory at the 2012 World Cha💮mpionships(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Tony Martin and Tom Boonen during the 2012 Team Time Trial World Championshജips(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Mark Cavendish and Tom Boonen become team mates in 2🐲013(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Boonen and Ca🤡vendish take the antic🔯s to the limit during the 2013 team presentation(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Boonen crashes out of the 2013 Tour of Flanders(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Geraint Thomas and Tom Boonen during the 2014 Paris⛦-Roubaix(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Cancellara cools down Boonen🌳 at the Vuelta a ෴Espana(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
The famous 2015 Omloop Het Niuewsblad(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Tom Boonen 🌼becomes the first ever rider to win on disc brakes(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Boonen✨ celebrates finishing his first Milan-San Remo in 200🌠3(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Tom Boonen takes refuelling seriously(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
On the🎉 Tour de France podium after his stage 𓂃victory in 2004(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Boonen in t💟he 2002 Kuurne-Brussel-Kuurn♎e for U.S. Postal Services(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
The🥃 2002 Paris-Roubaix podium. Boonen's first and certainly not last(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Tom Boonen and George Hincapie for U.S. Postal on the pave during a wet Paris-🌠Roubaix,🌱 2002(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Tom Boonen poses with a U.S. Postal Services Trek(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Down time at the 2004 Tour of Qatar(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Showing off the 2005 Paris-Nice leader's jersey(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Boonen celebrates on the E🎐3 Prijs Vlaanderen podiumBoonen's first top-ten of Milan-San Remo. ✅2005(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Boonen poses for the camera in 2004(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Lance Armstrong, Tom Boonen🐻 and Fabian Cancellara ahead of stage 1 at the 2004 Tour de France(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Boonen's first Tour �𝕴�de France stage victory. Stage 20, Paris(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
World Champion Mar🐓io Cipollini dwar💦fs Tom Boonen in the 2003 Tour of Flanders(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
A young Boonen in 1997(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
(L-R) Paolo Bettini, Servais Knaven, Jose Me💞rcado,༺ Richard Virenque, Johan Museeuw and Tom Boonen, 2003(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Boonen just misses out on a podium finish during stage 2𓄧 of tꦫhe 2003 Criterium du Dauphine(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Boℱonen shows off his bike at the 2003 Vuelta a Espana(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Boonen wears🌺 the leaders jersey at the Ruta del Sol after winning the open🌞ing stage in 2004(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Messing around in 2004(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
A victorious Tom Boonen in the 2004 E3 Harel𓃲beke (then E3 Prijs Vlaanderen)(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
The Gent-Wevelgem 2004 podium(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Tom Boonen's first Tour of Flanders victory, 2005(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Boonen celebrates cro💛ssing the line in the Roubaix velodrome ahead of George Hincap𒊎ie(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
💟A third consecutive E3 Prijs Vlaanderen in 2006 for Boone༒n(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
The 2006 Tour of Flanders podium(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Tom Boonen wears the maillot jaune during the 2♏006 Tour de France(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Bernard Hinault congratulates the race le൲ader at the 2006 Tour de France(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Eneco Tour stage 6 victory for Boonen, 2006(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Tom Boonen inspects a Lamborghini Murcielago(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Tour of Qatar victory, 2007(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Boonen attacks the Muur during the 2007 Het Volk(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
The sprint during the 2007 Dwars door Vlaanderen(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Tom Boonen recces the Poggio in the World Champion's jers♓ey, 200💎6(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
The Paris-Nice leader wins stage 2 in 2006(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
2006: Tom Boonen meets Eddy Merckx in Belgium(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Boonen wears t❀he green jersey during the 2005 Tour de France(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Team time trial, stage 4 of the 2005🥀 Tour de France(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Tom Boonen and Lance Ar𝕴mstrong in Nancy, France 2005(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
The 2005 Men's World Championship ൲road race podium(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Tom Boonen and Patric😼𒁏k Lefevre celebrate a successful season at the end of 2005(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
SCUBA diving in the rainbow jersey. Why not?(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
A dolphin and Tom Boonen, Curacao 2005(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
(L-R) Paolo Bettini, Nick Nuyens, Pippo Poz🐠zato and Jua🧸n Garate hold up Tom Boonen(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
The 2007 Tour de France jersey winners(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tom Boonen burst onto the world cycling stage in 2002 with US Postal Service. At just twenty-one years of age, Boonen rode to an emphatic third place behind Johan Museeuw and Steffen Wesemann in his first, and the one hundredth edition of168澳洲5最新开奖结果: Paris-Roubaix.
Boonen went on to finish on the podium inside the Roubaix velodrome a total six times, four of which were on the top step – a record only matched by Roger De Vlaeminck. Following a single season with the infamous American team, Boonen joined an earlier incarnation of the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Quick-Step Floors team and has remained with Patrick Lefevere and the 😼Belgian team for fifꦿteen seasons.
Complementing the four victories at ‘The Hell of the North', Boonen has also achieved three Tour of Flanders victories, three Gent-Wevelgem victories, five E3 Harelbeke/Prijs Vlaanderen victories, two Kuurne-Brussel-Kuurne victories, six Tour de France stages, two Vuelta a Espana stages, a Tour de France Green Jersey, two national titles and a W🌼orld title to name just some of the highlights of his 1📖6-year career.
As Boonen's career comes to an end, fittingly where it truly begun on the cobbles of Paris-Roubaix, Cyclingnews takes a look back at some of the highlights, the lows andও the greatest victories of Belgium's po♋ster boy.
Let us know your favourite memor🔴ies of Tom Boonen's career in the comments below.
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