Alban Lakata
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Date of birth | 25th June 1979 (age 41) |
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discipline | Mountain bike , cyclocross |
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Last updated: May 30, 2019 |
Alban Lakata (born June 25, 1979 in Lienz ) is an Austrian mountain bike rider .
Athletic career
In 2000 Alban Lakata, nicknamed Albanator , started a mountain bike marathon for the first time . At the 2004 European Mountain Bike Marathon Championships, he won the bronze medal. In 2008 he won the gold medal at the European Marathon Championships in Albstadt . In 2009 he just missed the world championship title in the MTB marathon, where he was only beaten by Roel Paulissen from Belgium.
In 2010 , 2015 and 2017, Lakata won the title at the UCI Mountain Bike Marathon World Championships .
In 2015 he was Austrian marathon champion for the fifth time.
At the 2018 Marathon World Championships , the then 39-year-old East Tyrolean was involved in a mass fall and ended up having to be content with twelfth place. Alban Lakata has been part of Team Bulls alongside Karl Platt since the 2019 season .
Sporting successes
- 2006
- Mountain bike marathon world cup in Mont Sainte-Anne
- 2007
- 2008
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European Champion - Marathon
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Austrian national champion - marathon
- Mountain Bike Marathon World Championships 2008 , 16th place
- 2009
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Austrian national champion - marathon
- Mountain bike marathon world championships 2009 , vice world champion
- 2010
- one stage Cape Epic (with Kevin Evans )
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Austrian national champion - marathon
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World champion - marathon
- 2011
- 2012
- Victory at the Bike Transalp , in a team with the German Robert Mennen
- Victory at the Leadville 100
- 2013
- 2015
- 2016
- Mountain bike marathon world championships 2016 , vice world champion
- 2017
Teams
- 2004 Cycling Team Tirol
- 2005 Specialized Factory Racing
- 2006 Specialized Factory Racing
- 2007 Trek VW
- 2008 Trek Marco Polo
- 2009 Topeak Ergon Racing Team
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- 2013 Topeak Ergon Racing Team
- 2019 Team Bulls
Web links
- Alban Lakata in the database of Radsportseiten.net
- Official website of Alban Lakata
Individual evidence
- ↑ Alban Lakata in an interview: winners and so on. In: sportaktiv.com. May 1, 2014, accessed November 12, 2015 .
- Jump up ↑ Lakata, silver for Geismayr and Kollmann-Forstner (September 15, 2018)
- ↑ Alban Lakata will be driving alongside Karl Platt in 2019 (January 1, 2019)
- ↑ Alban Lakata won the German Mennen Transalp (July 21, 2012)
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SURNAME | Lakata, Alban |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian mountain bike rider |
DATE OF BIRTH | June 25, 1979 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Lienz |