Leif Hoste

Leif Hoste (born 17 July 1977) is a retired Belgian professional road racing cyclist, who last rode for UCI Professional Continental Team team . Born in Kortrijk, Hoste's career highlights included winning two stages and the overall title at the 2006 Three Days of De Panne, the 2001, 2006 and 2007 Belgian national time trial championships, and a second-place finish at the 2004, 2006 and 2007 one-day classic Tour of Flanders.

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

On 29 March 2013, the Belgian cycling federation began a doping case against Hoste. On 13 July 2014 it was confirmed by the UCI that Hoste had been banned for two years until 29 December 2015 for biological passport irregularities.

Major results

1998 1st Stage 1 Tour de l'Avenir 1st Stage 3 Circuito Montañés 1999 5th Overall Tour Trans-Canada 6th Grand Prix Eddy Merckx 9th Duo Normand 2000 1st Stage 3 Tour de Wallonie 3rd National Time Trial Championships 7th Grand Prix Eddy Merckx 2001

2002 9th Sparkassen Giro Bochum 2003 2nd National Time Trial Championships 2nd Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne 3rd Grand Prix Eddy Merckx 2004 2nd Tour of Flanders 2nd Overall Tour de l'Ain 3rd National Time Trial Championships 6th Brussels–Ingooigem 6th Druivenkoers Overijse 8th Grand Prix Eddy Merckx 2005 3rd Overall Eneco Tour of Benelux 2006

1st Overall Three Days of De Panne 1st Mountains competition 1st Stages 1 & 4 (ITT) 2nd Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne 2nd Tour of Flanders 2nd Paris–Roubaix (DSQ) 2nd Eindhoven Team Time Trial 5th E3 Prijs Vlaanderen 2007

2nd Tour of Flanders 3rd Overall Tour of Belgium 4th Overall Eneco Tour 7th Overall Tour of Qatar 2008 2nd National Time Trial Championships 6th Paris–Roubaix 7th Omloop Het Volk 2009 4th Paris–Roubaix 8th Overall Three Days of De Panne 2010 3rd National Time Trial Championships 8th Paris–Roubaix 2011 7th Dwars door Vlaanderen