Jans Koerts

Koerts started his career at PDM–Concorde–Ultima in 1991. At the 2000 Vuelta a España, he won the Stage 3 mass sprint. In 2005 during stage four of the Trofeo Joaquim Agostinho Koerts crashed heavily breaking both ankles, his ribs and fractured his femur. He did not race again until Ster van Zwolle in March 2007. Following his crash he left Cofidis. In 2007 Koerts admitted to doping over a span of eleven years. In 1993 while at Festina–Lotus, he started taking testosterone under guidance from the team doctor.