Alban Lakata

Alban Lakata

To person
Date of birth	25th June 1979 (age 41)
nation	Austria
discipline	Mountain bike , cyclocross
Most important successes
World championships UCI mountain bike marathon world champion 2010, 2015, 2017 European championships European champion marathon 2008, 2013 Austrian championships Austrian state champion marathon 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2015
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

• Black Forest Ultra Bike Marathon

2008

• European Champion - Marathon
• Austrian national champion - marathon
• Mountain Bike Marathon World Championships 2008 , 16th place

2009

• Austrian national champion - marathon
• Mountain bike marathon world championships 2009 , vice world champion

2010

• one stage Cape Epic (with Kevin Evans )
• Austrian national champion - marathon
• World champion - marathon

2011

• Austrian national champion - marathon
• Mountain Bike Marathon World Championships 2011 , 6th place

2012

• Victory at the Bike Transalp , in a team with the German Robert Mennen
• Victory at the Leadville 100

2013

• European Champion - Marathon

2015

• World champion - marathon
• Austrian national champion - marathon

2016

• Mountain bike marathon world championships 2016 , vice world champion

2017

• World champion - marathon

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

1. ↑ Alban Lakata in an interview: winners and so on. In: sportaktiv.com. May 1, 2014, accessed November 12, 2015 . 
2. Jump up ↑ Lakata, silver for Geismayr and Kollmann-Forstner (September 15, 2018)
3. ↑ Alban Lakata will be driving alongside Karl Platt in 2019 (January 1, 2019)
4. ↑ Alban Lakata won the German Mennen Transalp (July 21, 2012)