Jacob Piil

Jakob Piil at the HEW Cyclassics 2005

Jakob Storm Piil (born March 9, 1973 in Lyngby-Taarbæk ) is a former Danish cyclist .

The focus of Piil's cycling career was initially on the endurance disciplines on the track . At the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta he started in the team pursuit and in 2000 in Sydney with Jimmi Madsen in the two-man team . He contested a total of 29 six-day races , of which he won two.

Jakob Piil was Danish champion nine times in various disciplines on the road and track, including the 2001 national title holder in road racing . There were also five titles at the championships of the Nordic countries on the track and the road. In 2002 he won Paris – Tours . He started four times in the Tour de France ; In 2003 he decided the tenth stage for himself.

Before Piil switched to the Danish team CSC in 2001 , he drove for the teams RDM (1997), Acceptcard (1998–1999) and Memory Card (2000). In the 2007 season, Piil drove for the T-Mobile team , after which he ended his career.

successes

Street

1995

• two stages of Cinturón a Mallorca

1997

• Danish champion - team time trial

1999

• Sweden tour
• USPRO Championship

2000

• Danish champion - team time trial

2001

• Grand Prix d'Ouverture La Marseillaise
• Overall victory and two stage victories in the Friedensfahrt
• Danish champion - road race

2002

• a stage of the peace journey
• Overall victory and a stage victory on the Tour of Denmark
• Paris Tours

2003

• a stage Tour de France

2006

• one stage Settimana Internazionale (team time trial)

train

1994

• Danish champion - team pursuit
• Danish champion - points race

1995

• Danish Master - Madison (with Lars Otto Olsen )

1997

• Danish Master - Madison (with Michael Sandstød )
• 1st place six days in Grenoble (with Tayeb Braikia )

1998

• Danish champion - team pursuit

2000

• Danish Master - Madison (with Jimmi Madsen )

2005

• 1st place six days in Copenhagen (with Jimmi Madsen )

Teams

• 1997 RDM-Asfra
• 1998–1999 Accept Card Pro Cycling
• 2000–2006 Memory Card-Jack & Jones (from 2001 CSC-Tiscali , from 2003 CSC )
• 2007 T-Mobile team

Web links

• Jakob Piil in the Radsportseiten.net database
• Jakob Piil in the Tour de France database(French / English )
• Jakob Piil in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jacob Storm Piil. Kultur-buch.de, accessed on December 24, 2013 . 
2. ^ Pascal Sergent, Guy Crasset, Herve Dauchy: Wereld Encyclopedie Wielrennen . Eecloonaar, Eeklo 2001, p. 1474 (Flemish).