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(2015, 2019) , medaltemplates = , show-medals = no Bauke Mollema (; born 26 November 1986) is a Dutch professional

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, who currently rides for

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. He has finished in the top 10 in all three Grand Tours, with stage wins in the

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, and the

2011 Vuelta a España The 2011 Vuelta a España was held from 20 August to 11 September. The bicycle race began in Benidorm with a team time trial and ended, as is traditional, in Madrid. The 2011 Vuelta was the 66th edition of the race and was the first Vuelta in 33 ...

, in which he finished third overall. His best result in the general classification in the Tour de France came in 2013 when he finished in 6th place. He won the

in 2016 and finished on the podium on three other occasions at the race. In 2019, he achieved the biggest win of his career in Il Lombardia.

Career

Amateur career

In 2007 Mollema won the prestigious stage race for upcoming talents

Tour de l'Avenir Tour de l'Avenir ( en, Tour of the Future) is a French road bicycle racing stage race, which started in 1961 as a race similar to the Tour de France and over much of the same course but for amateurs and for semi-professionals known as independen ...

and the

Circuito Montañés Circuito Montañés is a road cycling stage race held annually in Cantabria, Spain. The editions 1986–1995 were reserved to amateurs. Since 2005, the race has been organized as a 2.2 event on the UCI Europe Tour The UCI Continental Circuits a ...

Rabobank (2008–2014)

2008–2009 seasons

He joined the ProTeam in 2008, signing his first contract as a professional. His first notable result was a 6th position in the final classification of the 2008

Vuelta a Castilla y León The Vuelta Ciclista a Castilla y León is a professional road bicycle stage race held in Castile and León, Spain. Since 2005, Vuelta a Castilla y León has been a part of the UCI Europe Tour The UCI Continental Circuits are a series of road bicyc ...

. He made his ProTour debut in the

Tour de Romandie The Tour de Romandie is a stage race which is part of the UCI World Tour. It runs through the Romandie region, or French-speaking part of Switzerland. The competition began in 1947, to coincide with the 50-year anniversary of Swiss Cycling. It ...

, but did not finish the race due to a fall, which resulted in a fractured collarbone. He fully returned in top shape in the

Deutschland Tour The Deutschland Tour (English: ''Tour of Germany'' and sometimes ''Deutschland-Rundfahrt'' in German) is the most important multi-stage road bicycle race in Germany. Initially the race was held in May/June, but from 2005 until 2008 it was moved t ...

, in which he started as Rabobank's team leader, eventually finishing 7th in the overall general classification. After a disappointing spring in 2009, the season was over for Mollema due to

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(Pfeiffer's disease).

2010 season

Mollema made his Grand Tour debut in the Giro d'Italia in which he made a good impression but fell short of a top 10 classification and winning the young rider competition, partially due to missing out on a break-away of 50 riders in which a lot of direct opponents gained a 12 minutes lead. Mollema continued to ride strong later in the season with a mountain stage win in the

Tour de Pologne The Tour de Pologne (Polish language, Polish: ''Wyścig Dookoła Polski'', English language, English: ''Tour of Poland'', official abbreviation TdP,) is an annual, professional men's Race stage, multiple-stage cycle sport, bicycle race prim ...

and a third place overall after winner Dan Martin and runner-up

Grega Bole Grega Bole (born 13 August 1985 in Jesenice, Yugoslavia) is a Slovenian professional road bicycle racer, who most recently rode for UCI WorldTeam . His biggest victory is the 2011 GP Ouest–France, where he launched a solo attack with to go ...

2011 season

Bauke Mollema on Liège-Bastogne-Liège 2011 start line 2

In the spring of 2011 he already showed good form with a ninth place overall in

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and tenth overall in the

Volta a Catalunya The Volta a Catalunya (; en, Tour of Catalonia, es, Vuelta a Cataluña, link=no) is a road bicycle race held annually in Catalonia, Spain. It is one of three World Tour stage races in Spain, together with the Vuelta a España and the Tour of ...

. He eventually did not show his good form in the

Ardennes classics The Ardennes classics are three cycling classics held in mid-April in the Belgian Ardennes and southern Limburg in the Netherlands: Liège–Bastogne–Liège, La Flèche Wallonne and Amstel Gold Race. First held in 1892, 1936 and 1966 respectiv ...

and rode disappointing results. The main objective of Mollema's 2011 season was his first ever

. As preparation for the Tour he rode, together with teammate Steven Kruijswijk, the Tour de Suisse. Both riders performed extremely well in a strong field. This resulted for Kruijswijk in a podium finish but Mollema fell short for the podium due to a flat tyre. Due to illness his general classification performance in the Tour de France was not a success. In the last week he stated that he felt better and tried for a break-away. This resulted in a second place in the 17th stage after

Edvald Boasson Hagen Edvald Boasson Hagen (born 17 May 1987) is a Norwegian professional road racing cyclist, who rides for UCI ProTeam . He was ranked as no. 3 in the world by UCI as of 31 August 2009, when he was 22 years old. He is known as an all-rounder, havin ...

of . Mollema returned to action in his third Grand Tour, the

. On the steep uphill finishes in stage 5 and 8 he finished in the top five. He did not lose any crucial time in the first week and was awarded the red leader's jersey after his second place in stage 9. Due to his weaker time trial skills compared to other general classification contenders such as

Bradley Wiggins Sir Bradley Marc Wiggins, CBE (born 28 April 1980) is a British former professional road and track racing cyclist, who competed professionally between 2001 and 2016. He began his cycling career on the track, but later made the transition to r ...

Chris Froome Christopher Clive Froome ɹɪs fɹuːm (born 20 May 1985) is a Kenyan/British road racing cyclist who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam . He has won seven Grand Tours: four editions of the Tour de France (in 2013, 2015, 2016 and 2017), one ...

and

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, he lost the leader's jersey a day after he had won it. Mollema rode well after the time trial and was heading for a podium position, but he fell to fourth place overall due to the performance of

Juan José Cobo Juan José Cobo Acebo (born 21 February 1981 in Torrelavega, Cantabria) is a retired Spanish professional road racing cyclist. He won the 2011 Vuelta a España as a rider, his first and only major title but in July 2019 he was stripped of this ...

on the

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. Mollema eventually came onto the podium in Madrid as winner of the

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. It was the first time since 1992 that a Dutchman won a major classification in a Grand Tour, after

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won the

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. On 18 July 2019, Mollema was officially elevated to third overall in the Vuelta after Cobo was disqualified for being found guilty of abnormalities related to performance-enhancing drugs on his biological passport, earning Mollema his first ever podium finish in a Grand Tour.

2012 season

During the spring of 2012, Mollema rode his best classics campaign at the time. He finished 10th at his home race, the

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, 7th at

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and 6th at

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to take his first top 10 finishes in a monument race. He had no success in the Grand Tours, as he abandoned the

, and finished 28th overall at the

. He had other successes during the year, as he took his first overall podium in a World Tour stage race, when he finished 3rd in the

Tour of the Basque Country The Tour of the Basque Country (Officially: ''Itzulia Basque Country'', es, Vuelta al País Vasco, links=no, eu, Euskal Herriko Itzulia) is an annual road cycling stage race held in the Spanish Basque Country in April. It is one of the races ...

. He also started in his first

finishing 5th, a race that he later had great success in. Mollema finished off the season with a 7th place at a rainy

2013 season

Tour de France 2013, mollema en peraud (14867337254)

In 2013, Mollema carried some good form finishing 2nd in the

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, 3rd in the

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, and 4th in the Criterium International. In the Tour de Suisse, Mollema won stage 2 marking his first victory in 2013. After having a strong ride in the mountains, Mollema entered the final time trial in 4th position. He later moved up into 2nd that day. Mollema's good form continued at the

, where he finished fourth on the first mountain stage to

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to rise to fourth in the general classification. He finished eighth on the next stage and rose to third overall after

Richie Porte Richard Julian Porte (born 30 January 1985) is an Australian professional road bicycle racer who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam . His successes include wins at 8 World Tour stage races: Paris–Nice in 2013 and 2015, the Volta a Catalunya ...

lost more than 18 minutes. On stage 13 he rose to second in general classification when

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lost almost 10 minutes after suffering a puncture with approximately left, while also gaining over a minute on Froome's lead. However, he lost time in the last week and finished 6th in the general classification. Mollema also rode the

. He won Stage 17 of the race by attacking from the peloton 500 metres from the line, and holding off the chasing pack led home by Edvald Boasson Hagen ().

2014 season

Tour de France 2014, bauke mollema (14866647371) (cropped)

At the

, Mollema sat seventh overall heading into the penultimate stage, an individual time trial in length. However, riding a new Bianchi for the first time, Mollema could only place in 140th position and slipped to tenth overall in the general classification, 21 minutes and 24 seconds behind the winner,

. He quickly redeemed himself one week later, where he took his first podium at

, when he finished 2nd just behind

Trek Factory Racing (2015–present)

At the end of the 2014 season, Mollema left to join .

2015 season

In March 2015, Mollema finished second overall behind

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() at

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. Mollema finished seventh overall in the Tour de France. MollemaEggenTOA2015

In September 2015, Mollema won the

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stage race in Canada.

2016 season

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On Stage 12 of the

, Mollema bridged across to an attack by race leader Chris Froome () and Richie Porte () on

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, and was the only general classification contender able to do so. However, all 3 riders were involved in a crash with a motorbike after spectators on the road forced the motorbike to stop. Mollema was able to remount his bike and continued riding, while Porte was delayed and passed by the other general classification contenders and Froome ditched his bike and continued on foot until receiving a replacement bike from his team car. Mollema finished the stage 1 minute and 40 seconds ahead of Froome, and the initial standings placed Mollema in second overall behind new leader

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(). However, Froome was awarded the same time as Mollema after a jury decision, and retained the yellow jersey. The revised standings also placed Nairo Quintana ahead of Mollema, who was now fourth overall. Mollema criticised the UCI's handling of the stage afterwards. On Stage 13, Mollema produced what he described as "the best time trial of my life" to place sixth on the hilly route over . He finished 51 seconds down on Froome, but took time out of all the other general classification contenders and rose to second overall, 1' 47" behind Froome. Mollema maintained his second position overall until stage 19; having started the stage 3' 52" in arrears of Froome, Mollema crashed on a descent, and ultimately lost almost four minutes to Froome, dropping from second to tenth overall. He ultimately fell to eleventh overall in the final general classification. The following weekend, Mollema managed to rebound at

, winning after a late attack.

2017 season

In his third season with , Mollema opted to ride the general classification at the Giro d'Italia, as

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rode the

as team leader. He took his first win in January, where he won the overall in the

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. His next good result came in February, where he finished 4th overall at the new World Tour race, the

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. On the first real test at the Giro d'Italia, Mollema was 4th on stage 9 to Blockhaus. The following stage, Mollema delivered one of his best Time trials ever when he finished 10th and rose to 3rd place overall in the general classification. However he dropped out of the podium on the challenging stage to Oropa, as he lost almost 2 minutes to stage winner

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. He finished 7th overall at the Giro d'Italia, his best result at the race. His next race was the Tour de France, where he worked as a domestique for team leader Contador. He got his own chance on stage 15 where he went into the breakaway. He attacked his breakaway companions, just after the last major climb of the day, and managed to keep them behind all the way to the finish line, winning his first Tour de France stage win by 19 seconds, ahead of

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. Even though he had ridden two Grand Tours during the season, he started in

a week later and finished in third place, his third podium at the race – one for each podium placing.

2018 season

After just missing out on a stage win at the

Volta ao Algarve The Volta ao Algarve (Portuguese; en, Tour of the Algarve) is a road bicycle racing stage race held annually in the Algarve, Portugal. Since 2017, it has been organised as a 2.HC event on the UCI Europe Tour. The race became part of the new UCI P ...

in February, Mollema took his first win of the season at the

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where he won stage 2 and finished 2nd overall. His next result came just a week after, where he was 7th overall at the

. The classics campaign was mixed for Mollema as he only finished in the top 10 on one occasion at

with a 6th place. At the

, Mollema was once again team leader and it looked promising after a great first week where he was one of the best general classification contenders. However already on the second mountain stage, Mollema cracked and switched his focus to go for stage wins. He was very close to winning a stage, but had to settle with a 3rd and 4th place as his best stage results. As he had done the previous years with great success, Mollema started

the week following the end of the Tour. He was the only one to match the pace of

Julian Alaphilippe Julian Alaphilippe (born 11 June 1992) is a French professional road cyclist, former cyclo-cross racer and two-fold UCI World Road Champion, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam . He is the brother of racing cyclist Bryan Alaphilippe. Career E ...

in the final, but lost the sprint for victory to Alaphilippe. Mollema chose to start the

, his second Grand Tour of the season. He showed he had form already on the fifth stage where he finished 2nd just behind Simon Clarke. Four days later he was once again in the breakaway and once again had to settle with a 2nd place. Ben King attacked just before the final climb, and was not chased instantly by his breakaway companions. Later on the climb it looked like King was having difficulties and Mollema slowly chased him down. However, as the finish line came closer, King kept riding a fast pace which Mollema could not catch. Mollema finished 2nd overall in the Mountains classification. In October he won the Italian semi classic

; his second victory of the season.

2019

In 2019 Mollema finished the 2019 Clásica de San Sebastián in 5th place, 6th place in

and 10th in the 2019 Grand Prix Cycliste de Montreal. Near the end of the season, he won the first

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of his career taking the victory in the

beating out the chasing group of

, Jakob Fuglsang and

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by +0:16. With this victory he became the first Dutch winner of the race since

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in 1981.

2020

The 2020 Cycling season was extremely modified by the

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and many races were either rescheduled or cancelled outright. His best result of the season was 4th in the

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. He entered the 2020 Tour, but for only the 2nd time in ten participations he did not finish the race.

2021

He finished 8th in the 2021 Liège-Bastogne-Liège and rode very strongly in the

. On stage 11 which included a double ascent of

Mollema was in contention for the stage win, but ended up finishing 3rd, crossing the line with teammate Kenny Elissonde as

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went on to win the stage. On stage 14 he joined a chaotic breakaway of fourteen riders, a breakaway that took over an hour to form. With 42 kilometers to go in the stage he rode clear of the surviving breakaway riders and rode solo all the way to the finish, claiming the second Tour de France stage victory of his career. In the Olympic road race he sprinted in the group contesting the minor medals behind winner

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, but came third in that group and fourth overall.

Major results

;2006 : 7th Overall

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::1st Stage 2 ;2007 : 1st Jersey yellow

Overall

: 1st

Overall

::1st Young rider classification ::1st Stage 6 : 3rd Overall

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::1st

Young rider classification : 4th Overall Tour du Haut-Anjou : 4th Overall

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: 4th Overall

: 4th

Internationale Wielertrofee Jong Maar Moedig The Internationale Wielertrofee Jong Maar Moedig was a professional cycling race held annually in Belgium between 1985 and 2019. It was first held in 1985 under the name Grand Prix Jerry Blondel. In 1987 it was renamed Trophée Cycliste Internati ...

: 10th Overall Settimana Ciclistica Lombarda : 10th

De Vlaamse Pijl De Vlaamse Pijl ( en, Flemish Arrow) is a Belgian road bicycle race held annually since 1968. The race starts and ends in Harelbeke. From 2005 until 2012, it was rated as a 1.2 event on the UCI Europe Tour, however in 2013 the race was no longer ...

;2008 : 6th Overall

: 7th Overall

;2010 : 3rd Overall

::1st Stage 6 : 5th Overall

: 8th

Giro del Piemonte The Giro del Piemonte, since 2009 known also as Gran Piemonte, is a semi classic European bicycle race held in the Apennine Mountains, Italy. The race first took place in 1906. Since 2005, the race has been organised as a 1.HC event on the UCI Eu ...

;2011 : 2nd Overall

::1st Combination classification : 2nd

Giro dell'Emilia The Giro dell'Emilia is a late season road bicycle race held annually in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. Since 2005, the race has been organised as a 1.HC event on the UCI Europe Tour, and since 2020 it's part of the UCI ProSeries calendar. The ...

: 3rd Overall

::1st

::Held

after Stage 9 ::Held Jersey white

after Stages 9–12 : 5th Overall Tour de Suisse : 5th

: 9th Overall

: 10th Overall

;2012 : 3rd Overall

: 5th

: 6th

: 7th

: 10th

;2013 : 1st Stage 17

: 2nd Overall Tour de Suisse ::1st Stage 2 : 2nd

: 3rd Overall

: 4th Overall

Critérium International The Critérium International was a two-day bicycle stage race held in France every spring from 1932 until 2016, typically the last weekend of March. It was formerly known as the Critérium National de la Route, first run in 1932. For many years ...

: 4th Overall

Tour of Norway The Tour of Norway is a road bicycle race held annually in Norway. It is considered as a successor to the stage race Ringerike GP, which is now a one-day race. It was started in 2011 as a result of the heightened interest in cycling in Norway, m ...

: 6th Overall

Tour Méditerranéen Tour or Tours may refer to: Travel * Tourism, travel for pleasure * Tour of duty, a period of time spent in military service * Campus tour, a journey through a college or university's campus * Guided tour, a journey through a location, directed ...

: 9th

: 10th

;2014 : 2nd

: 3rd Overall

::1st Stage 4 : 3rd Overall Tour de Suisse : 4th

: 6th Overall

: 7th

: 10th Overall

: 10th

Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec The Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec is a one-day professional bicycle road race held in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. Its first edition was on September 10, 2010, as the penultimate event in the 2010 UCI ProTour. The Grand Prix Cycliste de Québ ...

: 10th Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal ;2015 : 1st Jersey yellow

Overall

::1st Stage 1 ( TTT) : 1st

: 2nd Overall

: 2nd

: 4th Trofeo Andratx–Mirador d'es Colomer : 6th

: 6th

: 7th Overall

: 8th

La Drôme Classic La Drôme Classic ( en, The Drôme Classic) is an elite men's road bicycle racing event held annually in the Drôme region of France, held by the Ruoms Cyclisme Organisation. It is run as part of a weekend of racing in the south Ardèche, known as ...

;2016 : 1st

: 2nd Overall

::1st Stage 4 (

ITT ITT may refer to: Communication * Infantry-Tank Telephone, a device allowing infantrymen to speak to the occupants of armoured vehicles. Mathematics *Intuitionistic type theory, other name of Martin-Löf Type Theory *Intensional type theory B ...

) : 3rd Overall

: 8th

: 9th Overall

: 9th

;2017 : 1st Jersey blue

Overall

::1st Stage 15 :: Jersey red number

Combativity award The combativity award is a prize given in road bicycle racing Road bicycle racing is the cycle sport discipline of road cycling, held primarily on paved roads. Road racing is the most popular professional form of bicycle racing, in terms of numb ...

Stage 15 : 2nd Overall

Tour of Guangxi The Tour of Guangxi (officially known as the GREE-Tour of Guangxi for sponsorship purposes) is an annual professional cycling stage race held in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China. The race consists of multi-stage and is part of the U ...

: 3rd

: 4th Overall

: 5th Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal : 7th Overall Giro d'Italia : 9th Overall

;2018 : 1st

: 2nd Overall

::1st Stage 2 : 2nd

: 4th Overall

: 6th

: 7th Overall

: 8th Trofeo Serra de Tramuntana : 10th Trofeo Lloseta–Andratx :

Combativity award Stages 5, 11, 15 & Overall ;2019 : 1st Jersey rainbow

Team relay,

UCI Road World Championships The UCI Road World Championships are the annual world championships for bicycle road racing organized by the (UCI). The UCI Road World Championships consist of events for road race and individual time trial, and a mixed team relay. Events ...

: 1st

Team relay, UEC European Road Championships : 1st

: 1st

: 3rd Trofeo Campos, Porreres, Felanitx, Ses Salines : 3rd Trofeo Andratx–Lloseta : 4th Overall

Étoile de Bessèges The Étoile de Bessèges () is an early-season five-day road bicycle racing stage race held annually around Bessèges, in the Gard department of the Languedoc-Roussillon region of France. First organized in 1971 as a one-day race, it became a s ...

: 4th

: 5th Overall Giro d'Italia : 5th

: 5th

: 6th

: 7th

Milano–Torino Milano–Torino is a semi classic European single day cycling race, between the northern Italian cities of Milan and Turin over a distance of 199 kilometres. The event was first run in 1876 making it the oldest classic race in the world. The ev ...

: 10th Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal ;2020 : 4th

: 5th Overall

Route d'Occitanie The Route d'Occitanie is a road bicycle race with 4 stages held annually in Southern France. It was first held in 1977 and since 2005 it has been organised as a 2.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour. It is usually held a week before the Tour de Fran ...

: 6th Overall

: 8th Overall

;2021 : 1st

::1st Stage 14 :: Jersey red number

Stage 14 : 2nd Silver medal blank

Team relay,

: 2nd

GP Industria & Artigianato di Larciano The GP Industria & Artigianato di Larciano is a road bicycle race held annually in Larciano, Italy. After 2005, the race was organised as a 1.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour The UCI Continental Circuits are a series of road bicycle racing Road ...

: 3rd

Team relay, UEC European Road Championships : 3rd Overall Tour des Alpes-Maritimes et du Var ::1st Jersey green

Points classification ::1st Stage 1 : 4th Road race,

Olympic Games The modern Olympic Games or Olympics (french: link=no, Jeux olympiques) are the leading international sporting events featuring summer and winter sports competitions in which thousands of athletes from around the world participate in a multi ...

: 6th Overall Tour de la Provence : 7th

: 7th GP Miguel Induráin : 8th

: 10th

;2022 : 1st MaillotHolanda

Time trial In many racing sports, an athlete (or occasionally a team of athletes) will compete in a time trial against the clock to secure the fastest time. The format of a time trial can vary, but usually follow a format where each athlete or team sets off at ...

, National Road Championships : 4th

: 5th Overall Tour des Alpes-Maritimes et du Var : 7th

: 7th

Tre Valli Varesine The Tre Valli Varesine is a semi classic European bicycle race held in Varese, Italy. Since 2005, the race has been organised as a 1.HC event on the UCI Europe Tour. It is usually the first and most important race of Trittico Lombardo, which con ...

General classification results timeline

Classics results timeline

Major championship results timeline

References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Mollema, Bauke 1986 births Living people Dutch male cyclists Sportspeople from Groningen (city) Tour de Suisse stage winners Dutch Tour de France stage winners Dutch Vuelta a España stage winners UCI Road World Championships cyclists for the Netherlands Cyclists at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic cyclists of the Netherlands Cyclists at the 2020 Summer Olympics Cyclists from Groningen (province) UCI Road World Champions (elite men)