Kai Reus (born 11 March 1985) is a Dutch former professional

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who last rode for . As a junior, Reus won the Junior men's road race during the

2003 UCI Road World Championships The 2003 UCI Road World Championships took place in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, between October 7 and October 12, 2003. The event consisted of a road race and a time trial for men, women, men under 23, junior men and junior women. David Millar was ...

. After missing out on the

2007 Tour de France The 2007 Tour de France the 94th running of Tour de France, the race, took place from 7 to 29 July. The Tour began with a prologue in London, and ended with the traditional finish in Paris. Along the way, the route also passed through Belgium and ...

Reus was training at the

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on 12 July 2007. Reus fell from his bike and slipped into a

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. After team mate Michael Rasmussen won the

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during the Tour he dedicated the jersey to Reus. Eventually Reus would remain in coma until 23 July. Reus returned to racing in the 2008 Tour of Missouri. Reus took a year off from cycling between 2010 and 2011 after he was diagnosed with

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and lost form. He competed for in 2011 and 2013, with a season at in between. At the end of the 2016 season, Reus announced his retirement.

Major results

;2003 : 1st Jersey rainbow

Road race, UCI Junior Road World Championships : 1st Overall UCI Junior World Cup : 1st MaillotHolanda

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, National Junior Road Championships : 1st Overall Tour de l'Abitibi : 1st Overall Tour du Pays de Vaud ::1st Prologue : 1st Overall Driedaagse van Axel ::1st Mountains classification ::1st Stage 4 : 1st Overall Junior Tour of Ireland ::1st Stages 2 & 3 : 1st Overall Euregio Autolease Heuvelland Tour ::1st Stage 2 : 3rd

Omloop Mandel-Leie-Schelde Omloop Mandel-Leie-Schelde is a cycling race held annually in Belgium. It is part of UCI Europe Tour in category UCI race classifications, 1.1. The race, with a course variating between 160 and 190 kilometers, has Meulebeke, West Flanders as finish ...

Juniors : 4th Overall Tour de Lorraine Juniors ::1st Stage 4 (

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) ;2004 : 1st Overall Triptyque des Barrages : 4th Overall

Olympia's Tour The Olympia's Tour is a cycling stage race held in the Netherlands. History A.S.C. Olympia was founded in Amsterdam on 27 November 1898. It ran one-day races but wanted a race through all the Netherlands. The first Olympia's Tour was in 1909, wi ...

: 4th Chrono des Nations U23 : 4th Overall Tweedaagse der Gaverstreek : 4th

, National Under-23 Road Championships : 6th Overall

GP Tell The Grand Prix Guillaume Tell (; "William Tell Grand Prize") was a professional cycling race held annually in Switzerland. It was part of UCI Europe Tour The UCI Continental Circuits are a series of road bicycle racing competitions which were in ...

::1st Stage 1 : 8th

Ronde van Noord-Holland Ronde van Noord-Holland is a road bicycle race held annually in the province of North Holland (Noord-Holland) in the Netherlands. In 2005 the race was organized as a 1.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour The UCI Continental Circuits are a series of r ...

;2005 : 1st Overall

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::1st Stage 4 : 1st Overall Thüringen-Rundfahrt ::1st Stage 2 : 1st

Grand Prix Pino Cerami Grand Prix Pino Cerami is a single-day road bicycle race held annually in April in Hainaut, Belgium. From 2005 to 2019, the race was organized as a 1.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour, before being cancelled from 2019 to 2022. Upon its return in 2 ...

: 1st Stages 3 & 5b (

)

Circuito Montañés Circuito Montañés is a road cycling stage race held annually in Cantabria Cantabria (, ; ) is an autonomous community and Provinces of Spain, province in northern Spain with Santander, Cantabria, Santander as its capital city. It is call ...

: 3rd

: 5th

, National Under-23 Road Championships : 6th Overall

Course de Solidarność et des Champions Olympiques The Course de Solidarność et des Champions Olympiques, also known as the Course de la Solidarité Olympique (; ) is a road bicycle racing stage race held annually in Poland. From 1991 until 1995, it was a race for amateurs, becoming a profession ...

;2006 : National Under-23 Road Championships ::1st MaillotHolanda

Road race ::1st MaillotHolanda

: 1st Overall

::1st Prologue & Stage 5 : 1st

: 1st

Liège–Bastogne–Liège U23 The U23 Liège–Bastogne–Liège or Liège–Bastogne–Liège Espoirs is a cycling race in Belgium, held eight days before the cycling classic, the Liège–Bastogne–Liège Liège–Bastogne–Liège , also known as ''La Doyenne'' ("The ...

: 3rd

Rund um Köln The Rund um Köln is a Classic cycle races, classic cycling race around the German city of Cologne. Since 2005 it is part of the UCI Europe Tour, being organised as UCI race classifications, 1.1 race (in 2007 the race was categorised as 1.HC). It ...

: 6th Overall

Volta ao Distrito de Santarém The Volta ao Distrito de Santarém (Tour of Santarém District) was a multi-day road cycling race held annually in the District of Santárem, Portugal. From 2006 to 2008, it was organised as a 2.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour The UCI Continental ...

: 7th Overall

GP CTT Correios de Portugal The GP CTT Correios de Portugal is a road bicycle racing stage race held annually in Portugal. Since 2005, it has been organised as a 2.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour The UCI Continental Circuits are a series of road bicycle racing competitions ...

;2009 : 4th Overall

Tour of Britain The Tour of Britain is a multi-stage cycling race, conducted on British roads, in which participants race across Great Britain to complete the race in the fastest time. The event dates back to the first British stage races held just after th ...

::1st Stage 2 ;2011 : 1st Stage 1 Mi-Août en Bretagne ;2012 : 1st Stage 7

Volta a Portugal The Volta a Portugal (), also known as Volta a Portugal em Bicicleta (), is an annual multi-stage road bicycle racing competition held in Portugal. The competition takes place during a two-week span. History The competition started in 1927, alt ...

;2015 : 6th Overall Ronde van Midden-Nederland ::1st Stage 1 ( TTT) : 8th

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* * * * 1985 births Living people People from Niedorp Dutch male cyclists UCI Road World Championships cyclists for the Netherlands Cyclists from North Holland 20th-century Dutch people 21st-century Dutch sportsmen {{Netherlands-cycling-bio-1980s-stub