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Leif Hoste

Leif Hoste
Personal information
Full name	Leif Hoste
Date of birth	July 17, 1977 (1977-07-17) (age 32)
Country	Belgium
Team information
Current team	Silence-Lotto
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Rider type	Classics specialist/Time-trialist
Amateur team(s)1
1997	Mapei-GB (trainee)
Professional team(s)1
1998 1999–2000 2001–2002 2003–2004 2005–2006 2007 2008–	Vlaanderen 2002 Mapei-QuickStep Domo-Farm Frites Lotto-Domo Discovery Channel Predictor-Lotto Silence-Lotto
Major wins
National Time Trial Champion (2001, 2006, 2007)
Infobox last updated on:
22 December 2007 1 Team names given are those prevailing at time of rider beginning association with that team.

Leif Hoste (born 17 July 1977 in Kortrijk) is a Belgian professional road racing cyclist since 1998. He rides on the UCI ProTour for Silence-Lotto. His career highlights include winning two stages and the overall title at the 2006 Three Days of De Panne, the 2001 and 2006 Belgian national time trial championships, and a second place finish at the 2004, 2006 and 2007 one-day classic Ronde van Vlaanderen.

At the 2006 Paris-Roubaix, after finishing second, Hoste was disqualified by the race jury for illegally riding though a closed level crossing along with Peter Van Petegem and Vladimir Gusev (who were also disqualified).

Major achievements

External links

Achievements at Trap-Friis.dk