Lennie Kristensen

Lennie Kristensen

To person
Full name	Lennie Lange Kristensen
Date of birth	May 16, 1968
nation	Denmark
discipline	Road, mountain bike
Driver type	helper
To the team
Current team	End of career
function	driver
Societies)
1995-1997	Giant
Team (s)
1999-2002 2003	Fact CSC
Most important successes
Mountain bike European champion 1997
Last updated: January 10, 2012

Lennie Kristensen (born May 16, 1968 in Silkeborg ) is a former Danish cyclist in the field of road cycling and mountain biking .

Career

Kristensen began his cycling career on the road and on a mountain bike. As a mountain biker, he was able to achieve the Danish amateur championship title in 1992 . Two years later he was third in the same competition. He was also able to confirm these successes as a professional in the Dutch Giant team and in 1996 won the bronze medal at the Danish championship. In the following year he was even crowned European champion and came second in the national championships. With another bronze medal in 1999 in the same race, he ended his career as a mountain biker in order to concentrate fully on his road career.

Kristensen had already made his first mark on the streets in 1989 with the silver medal at the Danish amateur championships. He also showed his qualities in the individual time trial and achieved a podium place at the amateur championship in this discipline in 1990. In the following years, however, he switched more to mountain biking, only after the end of his professional career there in 1998 did he celebrate success again on the racing bike and in 1999 also signed his first contract as a professional road cyclist with the Danish team Fakta . Kristensen achieved his first professional victory in February 1999 at the Tour de Langkawi in Malaysia , where he won the prologue. The following year he and his teammates won bronze at the Danish championship in the team time trial . In the Tour de Normandie he won the fourth stage, in his home race, the Tour of Denmark , he just missed another victory in second place on the first day and was fifth overall. Kristensen's 2002 season was characterized by second places, so he had to give way to a different driver at the GP de Wallonie , Rund um die Hainleite , one stage of the Luxembourg Tour , the Tour of Austria and the Danish Championship. During his time at Fakta, which ended in 2002, he also took top positions in some criteria in Denmark.

For the 2003 season Kristensen moved to Team CSC . In his first outing for the new team in January at the Tour Down Under in Australia , he just missed the overall victory against the simultaneous Mikel Astarloza . He also came second in the mountain classification. After no further successes, Kristensen ended his active career at the end of 2003.

successes

Mountain bike

1992

• Danish amateur champion

1994

• Third Danish amateur championship

1996

• Third Danish championship

1997

• European champion
• Second Danish championship

1999

• Third Danish championship

Street

1989

• Second Danish amateur championship

1990

• Third Danish amateur championship ( time trial )

1999

• Winner prologue time trial Tour de Langkawi

2000

• Third Danish Championship ( team time trial )
• Winner fourth stage of the Tour de Normandie

2002

• Second Danish championship

Web links

• Lennie Kristensen in the Radsportseiten.net database
• Profile of Lennie Kristensen on the-sports.org