Filip Meirhaeghe

Filip Meirhaeghe

Filip Meirhaeghe (2007)
To person
Date of birth	5th March 1971 (age 49)
nation	Belgium
discipline	Road , mountain bike
doping
2004	EPO
Most important successes
Olympic Games in Cross-Country 2000 World Champion - Cross Country (2003)
Last updated: September 25, 2018

Filip Meirhaeghe (born March 5, 1971 in Ghent ) is a former Belgian mountain biker and road cyclist .

Career

Filip Meirhaeghe became Belgian cross country champion for the first time in 1996 . He was able to repeat this title win in 1998, 2000 and 2001. A year later, he won the mountain bike event in Paris-Roubaix . He was also able to repeat this triumph in 2002. At the Mountain Bike World Championships in 1998 he won his first of two bronze medals, the second followed in 1999 .

At the Olympic Games in Sydney he was able to win the silver medal behind Miguel Martinez . At the next World Championships in 2002 and 2003 , Meirhaeghe became vice world champion in Kaprun and finally world champion in Lugano .

2004 doping ban

Shortly before the 2004 Olympics in Athens , he was positive for EPO tested and gave use to. During his 15-month ban, he wrote the book Positief about his previous career.

Since 2006 Meirhaeghe has contested road races for the Belgian Professional Continental Team Landbouwkrediet-Colnago and won the GP Rudy Dhaenens . On the mountain bike he was again Belgian cross-country champion. He ended his career after the 2009 season.

Palmarès - mountain bike

1994

• Belgian champion - downhill

1996

• Belgian champion - cross country

1997

• Paris – Roubaix (MTB)

1998

• Belgian champion - cross country

2000

• Belgian champion - cross country
• European Champion - Cross Country

2001

• Belgian champion cross country

2002

• Paris – Roubaix (MTB)
• Overall World Cup ranking

2003

• World Champion - Cross Country

2006

• Belgian champion - cross country

Palmarès street

2006

• GP Rudy Dhaenens

Individual evidence

1. ↑ velonews.com of July 29, 2004: Meirhaeghe tests positive, admits guilt, retires
2. ↑ bikesportnews.com: Filip Meirhaeghe starts his last season, accessed on March 10, 2014
3. ↑ standaard.be of September 15, 2005: Filip Meirhaeghe rekent in book 'Positief' af met dopingtrauma
4. ↑ cyclingnews.com from March 19, 2006: Meirhaeghe wins GP Rudy Dhaenens

Web links

Commons : Filip Meirhaeghe  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Filip Meirhaeghe in the Radsportseiten.net database