Magnus Bäckstedt

Magnus Bäckstedt ( Linkoping , January 30 1975 ) is a Swedish former racing cyclist .

Content

 * 1 Biography
 * 2 Honours
 * 3 Results in major competitions
 * 4 External link

Biography
In Linköping was born Bäckstedt pro in 1996 at a small Belgian team, that after two years rather anonymous (he only won the Grand Prize Isbergues ) left for Gan halfway season that Crédit Agricole was. The more than 1.90 m long and 90 kilo Bäckstedt obviously missed the body in the mountains but also to bring a bit, but could on the other hand, huge flat speeding. He proved that with stage win in the Tour of Sweden, the couple Trial Duo Normand (with Jérôme Neuville ) and especially a stage in theTour de France , when he among others Maarten den Bakker defeated in the sprint.

Bäckstedt stayed another three years in French service drive, but due to lack of success, he moved from 2002 to the Danish Team Fakta . He won that year the GP Fayt-le-Franc, but it struck a year later, when he was in the Tour of Italy 's Inter Giro standings won. It earned him a contract with the Italian Alessio, where Bäckstedt flourished as a rider for one-day matches. After four days he already second in Gent-Wevelgem had become Bäckstedt surprisingly won Paris-Roubaix, the fastest being in a leading group of four.

From 2005 to 2007 he raced for Liquigas where he won the national road title in his last years. In 2008 he rode for Garmin-Chipotle, as teammate include David Zabriskie, Christian Vande Velde , David Millar and Julian Dean .

Honours [ edit ]
1992 1993 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2002 2003 2004 2007 2008
 * Swedish Champion time trial, Juniors
 * Swedish Champion time trial, Juniors
 * Swedish Champion road race, Juniors
 * Swedish Champion team time trial, Juniors
 * 4th stage Boland Bank Tour
 * 7th stage Boland Bank Tour
 * Prologue Boland Bank Tour
 * 5th stage Boland Bank Tour
 * Classification Boland Bank Tour
 * GP d'Isbergues
 * Duo Normand (with Jérôme Neuville )
 * Stage 4 Part B Tour of Sweden
 * 19th stage Tour de France
 * 29th - Het Volk, Lokeren (classic)
 * GP Fayt-le-Franc
 * 2nd stage Svenska Cykeltouren
 * Swedish Champion Individual Time Trial on the Road, Elite
 * Inter Giro Race Tour of Italy
 * Paris-Roubaix
 * Swedish champion on the road, Elite
 * 1st stage Tour of Italy (TTT)