Alex Rasmussen

Alex Rasmussen

Alex Rasmussen (2010)
To person
Date of birth	June 9, 1984
nation	Denmark
discipline	Train / street
End of career	2016
doping
1.10.11–31.3.13	3 missed doping tests
Most important successes
Olympic games 2008 - team pursuit UCI track world championships 2010 - Scratch 2009 - team pursuit 2009 - two-man team driving 2005 - Scratch
Last updated: July 18, 2018

Alex Nicki Sylvester Rasmussen (born June 9, 1984 in Odense ) is a former Danish cyclist who is active on the road and track . He is considered one of the most successful track cyclists in Denmark in the 2000s.

Athletic career

Alex Rasmussen took third place in the Danish Junior Sprint Championship in 2000, at the age of 16 . From 2001 he regularly won Danish championship titles; By the end of 2015, Alex Rasmussen was at least 37 times Danish champion in various disciplines and age groups in track cycling, and he won two titles on the road.

In 2005 Rasmussen became world champion in scratch racing on the track in Los Angeles . In March 2007 he took third place with the Danish four-man team at the World Championships in Palma in the team pursuit : This was the first medal for a Danish four-man at world championships after 14 years ( WM bronze 1993). In the same year he became Danish road champion.

At the Olympic Games in Beijing in 2008 Alex Rasmussen won the silver medal with the Danish four-man track and finished sixth in the two-man team . In 2010, at the World Railroad Championships in Ballerup near Copenhagen , Rasmussen was world champion in scratch for the second time. At the UCI Track World Championships in 2014 he was runner-up in the team pursuit together with Casper von Folsach , Lasse Norman Hansen and Rasmus Christian Quaade .

At the end of 2016 Rasmussen ended his active cycling career.

Doping ban

In September 2011, Rasmussen was dismissed without notice from his HTC-Highroad team within 18 months for three violations of the registration requirements .; His future team, Team Garmin-Cervélo, also removed him from their line-up for 2011. He himself explained the missing tests as “sloppy”. At short notice he was removed from the Danish national team for the 2011 World Championships ; then, however, the Danish association dropped the proceedings against Rasmussen because he had not been informed of the allegations against him in due time. The UCI , the world cycling association , filed an objection. On July 4, 2012, he was subsequently banned by the CAS for 18 months. The ban was in effect from October 1, 2011 to March 31, 2013, which is why Rasmussen could not start at the Olympic Games in London . His contract with Garmin-Sharp was then terminated. After his suspension expired, he returned to Garmin-Sharp.

Private

Alex Rasmussen is vegan . His father is Claus Rasmussen , who took 15th place in the 1000 meter time trial at the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles .

successes

train 2001 Danish Champion (Elite) - 1000m time trial, team pursuit (with Mads Christensen , Morten Voss Christiansen and Dennis Rasmussen ) Danish champion (juniors) - sprint, 1000 meter time trial, team pursuit (with Mikkel Kristensen , Jakob Dyrgaard and Mads Christensen ) 2002 Junior World Championship - Scratch Danish Champion (Elite) - 1000m time trial Danish Champion (Juniors) - Sprint, 1000-meter time trial, points trial, team pursuit (with Casper Jørgensen , Kasper Linde Jørgensen and Jakob Dyrgaard ) 2003 European Rail Championships (U23) - Scratch Danish Champion (Elite) - 1000m time trial, team pursuit (with Casper Jørgensen , Michael and Jakob Dyrgaard ) Danish champion (U23) - individual pursuit 2004 European Champion (U23) - Scratch European Championship (U23) - two-man team driving (with Michael Berling ) Danish champion (elite) - 1000 meter time trial, single pursuit, two-man team event (with Michael Berling ), team pursuit (with Michael Berling , Casper Jørgensen and Jakob Dyrgaard ) Danish champion (U23) - individual pursuit 2005 World Champion - Scratch European Championship (U23) - Scratch, Madison (with Michael Mørkøv ) Danish Champion (Elite) - single pursuit, 1000 meter time trial, points trial, team pursuit (with Michael Berling , Casper Jørgensen and Jakob Dyrgaard ), two-man team event (with Michael Mørkøv ) Danish champion (U23) - individual pursuit 2006 Track Cycling World Cup 2005/06 Sydney - Madison (with Michael Mørkøv ), team pursuit (with Casper Jørgensen , Jens-Erik Madsen and Michael Mørkøv ) 2007 World Championship - Team Pursuit (with Casper Jørgensen , Jens-Erik Madsen and Michael Mørkøv ) Track Cycling World Cup 2006/07 Los Angeles - Madison (with Michael Mørkøv ) Six days of Bordeaux (with Michael Mørkøv ) 2008 2000 - Team Pursuit (with Michael Mørkøv , Casper Jørgensen , Jens-Erik Madsen and Michael Færk Christensen ) - Team pursuit (with Casper Jørgensen , Jens-Erik Madsen and Michael Færk Christensen ) Track Cycling World Cup 2007/08 overall ranking and run in Copenhagen - two-man team driving (with Michael Mørkøv ) Danish champion - single pursuit, two-man team driving (with Michael Mørkøv ), Six days of Grenoble (with Michael Mørkøv ) 2009 World Champion - team pursuit (with Casper Jørgensen , Jens-Erik Madsen and Michael Færk Christensen ), two-man team driving (with Michael Mørkøv ) Danish champion - two-man team driving (with Michael Mørkøv ) Six days of Copenhagen (with Michael Mørkøv ) Six days of Ghent (with Michael Mørkøv ) 2010 World Champion - Scratch Danish champion - two-man team driving (with Michael Mørkøv ) Six days of Berlin (with Michael Mørkøv ) Six days of Copenhagen (with Michael Mørkøv ) Six days of Fiorenzuola d'Arda (with Michael Mørkøv ) 2011 Danish champion - two-man team driving (with Michael Mørkøv ) Six days of Copenhagen (with Michael Mørkøv ) 2014 World Championship - Team Pursuit (with Casper von Folsach , Lasse Norman Hansen and Rasmus Christian Quaade ) 2015 Bremen six-day race with Marcel Kalz Six days in Copenhagen with Michael Mørkøv 2016 Six days in Copenhagen (with Jesper Mørkøv )

Street 2005 a stage from Stuttgart to Strasbourg 2006 Overall ranking and two stages of the Tour de Berlin 2007 Danish champion - road race 2008 Stage winner Ronde de l'Oise Prologue and three-stage tour of Qinghai Lake 2010 two stages Quatre Jours de Dunkerque Grand Prix Herning one stage tour of Andalusia 2011 Giro d'Italia team time trial TD Bank International Championship 2012 Giro d'Italia team time trial 2013 a stage tour of Bavaria 2014 two stages of Dookoła Mazowsza

Teams

• 2007 Odense Energi
• 2008 Team Designa Køkken
• 2009 Team Saxo Bank
• 2010 Team Saxo Bank
• 2011 HTC-Highroad (until September 15)
• 2012 Garmin-Sharp (until July 31)
• 2013 Garmin Sharp (from March 19)
• 2014 Riwal Platform Cycling Team
• 2015 Team TreFor-Blue Water
• 2016 Team ColoQuick

Web links

Commons : Alex Rasmussen  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Alex Rasmussen in the Radsportseiten.net database
• Alex Rasmussen in the ProCyclingStats.com database
• Alex Rasmussen in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Aldag fires Alex Rasmussen. In: radsport-news.com. September 15, 2011, accessed March 7, 2016 . 
2. ↑ Doping proceedings against Alex Rasmussen suspended. In: radsport-news.com. November 18, 2011, accessed June 19, 2017 . 
3. ↑ UCI appeals against Rasmussen's acquittal. In: radsport-news.com. December 25, 2011. Retrieved June 19, 2017 . 
4. ^ Daniel Benson & Peter Cossins: Rasmussen fired from Garmin-Sharp - Cyclingnews.com. In: cyclingnews.com. July 4, 2012, accessed March 7, 2016 . 
5. ↑ Vaughters gives Rasmussen a second chance. In: radsport-news.com. March 19, 2013. Retrieved June 19, 2017 . 
6. ↑ Alex Rasmussen - Calling Time on Professional Cycling. In: VeloVeritas. February 7, 2017, accessed July 18, 2018 .