Magnus Backstedt

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Magnus Backstedt Road cycling
Magnus Bäckstedt (2011)
Magnus Bäckstedt (2011)
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Nickname Big Magnus or Magnus Maximus
Date of birth 30th January 1975 (age 45)
nation SwedenSweden Sweden
discipline Street
End of career 2012
Last updated: November 11, 2018
Backstedt (2011)
Honorary paving stone for Magnus Bäckstedt in Roubaix for his victory in 2004
Big Magnus among other cyclists (2011)

Magnus Bäckstedt (born January 30, 1975 in Linköping ) is a former Swedish cyclist . In 1998 he was the first Swede to win a stage of the Tour de France and in 2004 he was the only Swede to win the classic Paris – Roubaix ( as of 2018 ).

Athletic career

Magnus Bäckstedt began his sporting career at the age of three as a skier and was a member of the national team as a student. To compensate, he did training on the bike and finally switched to cycling at the age of twelve. In 1992 and 1993 he won several national junior titles. In 1994 he started at the World Road Championships in the team time trial and finished fourth with the Swedish team ( Jan Karlsson , Magnus Knutsson and Magnus Astroem ). In 1995 he won two stages of the Boland Bank Tour , and the following year he won the overall ranking of this tour.

In 1996 Bäckstedt received his first contract with Collstrop . In 1997 he won the Grand Prix d'Isbergues . In 1998 he won the 242-kilometer 19th stage of the Tour de France from La Chaux-de-Fonds to Autun . This made him the first Swede to win a stage on the Tour. In the same year he was seventh at Paris – Roubaix . In 2002 he won Le Samyn , and in 2003 he was the Swedish champion in the relay, a cycling discipline especially held in the Scandinavian countries, and in the individual time trial . In 2007 he won the national road race title.

His greatest sporting success was the Paris – Roubaix victory in 2004. Bäckstedt won the race in the sprint of a four-man breakaway group that formed ten kilometers from the finish. With this victory he thwarted the ambitions of Johan Museeuw , who had won the race for the fourth time and wanted to become the sole record holder. Bäckstedt is the only Swede to date to have won this classic. In 2005 he finished fourth in Paris – Roubaix .

After he announced the end of his cycling career for the first time in 2009, but then returned as a racing driver, he finally retired from active cycling in 2013.

Miscellaneous

With a height of 193 centimeters and a racing weight of 90 to 95 kilograms, Bäckstedt was one of the largest and most imposing riders in professional cycling, which is why he was also called Big Magnus or Magnus Maximus , behind whom you drive like “behind the bus”.

Bäckstedt is married to the former British cyclist Megan Hughes , lives in Wales and is now writing his name Backstedt ( as of 2018 ). Their daughter Elynor started in 2018 as a junior at the road world championships . His younger daughter Zoë is also active as a racing driver and is already internationally successful.

Since his retirement from competitive cycling, Bäckstedt has been active in a variety of ways: as a commentator on television, manager of amateur cycling teams, and as an entrepreneur in various areas. So he had a coffee brand Magnus Maximus produced. He is also active as a triathlete and triathlon trainer.

successes

1992
  • MaillotSue.PNG Swedish Junior Champion - Individual Time Trial
1993
  • MaillotSue.PNG Swedish Junior Champion - individual time trials, road races, individual time trials (team competition), team time trials
1995
1996
1997
1998
2002
2003

MaillotSue.PNG Swedish champion - individual time trial, relay race

2004
2007
  • MaillotSue.PNG Swedish champion - road race
2008

Grand Tour placements

Grand Tour 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008
Maglia Rosa Giro d'Italia - - - - - 70 DNF - - - DNF
Yellow jersey Tour de France 79 DNF 123 - - - DNF DNF DNF - DNF
Golden jersey Vuelta a España - - - - - - - 112 111 128 -
Legend: DNF: did not finish , abandoned or withdrawn from the race due to timeout.

Placements among the monuments of cycling

Monument to cycling 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008
Milan – Sanremo 140 - - DNF - - 140 DNF DNF - DNF
Tour of Flanders - - 79 DNF - - 66 61 - - 42
Paris – Roubaix 7th DNF 19th DNF - - 1 4th - 47 DNF
Liège – Bastogne – Liège
Lombardy tour
Legend: DNF: did not finish , abandoned or withdrawn from the race due to timeout.

Teams

Web links

Commons : Magnus Bäckstedt  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Phil Jones meets Magnus Bäckstedt. In: brother.co.uk. August 25, 2016, accessed November 11, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Backstedt blisters sprint. In: eurosport.com. November 4, 2004, accessed November 11, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Richard Abraham: Magnus Backstedt announces retirement. Cycling Weekly, June 7, 2013, accessed February 24, 2014 .
  4. ↑ Storia di Magnus Backstedt. In: museociclismo.it. Retrieved November 11, 2018 .
  5. ^ Thorsten Knobbe: Spectacle of top sport. LIT Verlag Münster, 2000, ISBN 978-3-825-85061-6 , p. 178 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  6. ↑ Elynor Bäckstedt. In: procyclingstats.com. Retrieved September 24, 2018 .
  7. ^ Anna Lewis: This family of four cyclists have all won titles around the world. In: walesonline.co.uk. August 10, 2017. Retrieved November 11, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Richard Tyler: Backstedt returns to competitive racing. In: Cycling News. February 7, 2018, accessed November 11, 2018 .
  9. ↑ Magnus Backstedt: "I'm not one of these guys who sit at 23kph". In: 220triathlon.com. November 26, 2013, accessed November 11, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Backstedt, Magnus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Backstedt, Magnus (English spelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH January 30, 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Linkoping , Sweden