László Bodrogi

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László Bodrogi at the Four Days of Dunkirk 2009

László Bodrogi [ ˈlaːsloː ˈbodroɡi ] (born December 11, 1976 in Budapest ) is a former French- Hungarian cyclist .

Career

Bodrogi, who began cycling in France at the age of 13 when his family lived in Besançon for some time , rode for the French team CC Étupes and the Hungarian team FTC during his time in the U23 age group . In 1996 he became the Hungarian road racing champion for the first time. A year later he drew attention to himself with second place at Paris-Roubaix (U23) and winning the silver medal in the U23 individual time trial at the road cycling world championship in San Sebastián and was able to stand as a stagiaire in the Festina-Lotus team with the professionals debut. Nevertheless, he was unable to find a place with the professionals in 1998, but remained successful and, in addition to the bronze medal in the individual time trial at the European road championship, he won two one-day races and the Hungarian championship in the individual time trial.

After Bodrogi had won the Tour de Gironde stage race in 1999 , he signed a contract as a stagiairebis at the end of the season with the French team Saint Quentin-Oktos-MBK and switched to the Italian team Mapei-Quick Step at the beginning of the 2000 season . In the following years he was able to secure the title of Hungarian champion in the individual time trial five times in succession (2000-2004), won stages in the Tour de l'Avenir (2000 and 2001), the Tour of Sweden (2001) and the Denmark Rundfahrt (2002) and won the Belgian couple time trial Grand Prix Eddy Merckx together with Fabian Cancellara in 2002 . In the same year he also achieved his most prestigious success to date by winning the prologue near Paris-Nice . In addition, he was always able to place extremely well in individual time trials, not least with third place at the road world championship in 2000 in Plouay .

In 2003 and 2004 Bodrogi drove for the Belgian team Quick Step-Davitamon and continued his career quite successfully with a stage win at the Three Days of De Panne (2004) and the championship titles mentioned.

For the 2005 season Bodrogi moved to the French team Crédit Agricole and won the overall ranking of the Tour of Luxembourg in his first season there . In 2006 he was not only again Hungarian champion in both disciplines, but also won the individual time trial at the Tour of Austria . A year later, he won the silver medal in the individual time trial at the road cycling world championship in Stuttgart and won the Chrono des Nations . In the 2008 season he won the mountain classification of the Tour of Luxembourg and once again the Hungarian championship in the individual time trial.

After the end of the 2012 season, Bodrogi ended his racing career. During his career he competed three times - in 1996 , 2004 and 2008 - László Bodrogi competed in the Olympic Games, in road races and in the individual time trial. His best place was a 21st place in 2004 in Athens in the individual time trial. He took part in the Tour de France three times ; In 2002 he achieved his best overall ranking with 62nd place.

Bodrogi, who is married to a French woman and lives in Ney , took French citizenship in 2007 . In 2010 he took part in the French time trial championship for the first time and finished third.

Palmarès

1996

  • HungaryHungary Hungarian champion - road race

1997

  • HungaryHungary Hungarian champion - individual time trial

1998

1999

2000

2001

2002

2003

  • HungaryHungary Hungarian champion - individual time trial

2004

2005

2006

  • HungaryHungary Hungarian champion - road race
  • HungaryHungary Hungarian champion - individual time trial
  • one stage tour of Austria

2007

2008

Teams

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b 69th Paris-Nice: Prologue - Ungar Bodrogi 28 hundredths before Rous ( Memento of August 8, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Mon Histoire on laszlo-bodrogi.com ( Memento from October 11, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Bodrogi, László
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH December 11, 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Budapest , Hungary