Dan Frost

Dan Frost

To person
Date of birth	January 22, 1961
nation	Denmark
discipline	Railway (endurance) / road
End of career	1992
Most important successes
Olympic games 1988 - points race UCI track world championships 1986 - points race 1985 - points race
Last updated: June 23, 2019

Dan Frost (born January 22, 1961 in Frederiksberg ) is a former Danish cyclist who was particularly successful in track cycling . In 1988 he became Olympic champion in the points race .

Athletic career

Frost competed for the first time at the age of 13. In 1985 he won the Danish amateur title in road racing , in the same year he won the bronze medal in the amateurs' points race at the track cycling world championships in Bassano del Grappa . In the same discipline he became world champion in 1986 in Colorado Springs . At the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul , he won the gold medal in the points race. In 1990 he won the Danish championship in the individual time trial . In total he won 13 other Danish league titles during his cycling career in the team time trial in the team pursuit , in the individual pursuit and points race. After he had only achieved 15th place in the points race at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona , he announced his retirement from cycling.

various

From 2006 to 2013 Frost was sporting director for Team CSC (later Team Saxo-Bank and Team Saxo-Tinkoff), and in 2014 Team Sky . Since 2000 he has been running the travel agency Dan Frost Cykelrejser ApS , which specializes in bike tours. He also works for ASO , comments for Eurosport and DR1 and gives lectures. The cyclist Ken Frost is his brother.

successes

train

1981

• Danish amateur champion - individual pursuit

1982

• Danish amateur champion - points race

1983

• Danish amateur champion - scratch, points race, team pursuit (with Michael Marcussen , Jørgen Vagn Pedersen and Brian Holm )

1984

• Danish Amateur Champion - Team Pursuit (with Michael Marcussen , Jørgen Vagn Pedersen and Brian Holm )
• one stage Grand Prix François Faber

1985

• World Championship - points race
• Danish amateur champion - single pursuit, team pursuit (with Jan G. Nielsen , Lars Otto Olsen and Kenneth Lyngholm )

1986

• World Champion - points race
• Danish amateur champion - single pursuit, team pursuit (with Peter Clausen , Lars Otto Olsen and Kenneth Lyngholm )

1987

• Danish amateur champion - points race, team pursuit (with Ken Frost , Peter Clausen and Lars Otto Olsen )

1988

• Olympic champion - points race
• Danish Amateur Champion - Team Pursuit (with Ken Frost , Peter Clausen and Lars Otto Olsen )

1989

• Danish amateur champion - points race, team pursuit (with Peter Clausen , Jimmi Madsen and Jan Bo Petersen )

1990

• Danish Amateur Champion - Team Pursuit (with Ken Frost , Peter Clausen and Jesper Verdi )

Street

1980

• Danish amateur champion - team time trial

1985

• Danish amateur champion - road racing

1990

• Danish amateur champion - individual time trial

Web links

• Dan Frost in the Radsportseiten.net database
• Dan Frost in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Dan Frost's website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} About us. In: dan-frost.com. Retrieved June 23, 2019 .