Marcus Ljungqvist

Marcus Ljungqvist (2008)

Per Marcus Ljungqvist (born October 26, 1974 in Falun ) is a former Swedish cyclist and current sports director.

Career in sport

Marcus Ljungqvist started his professional career in 1998 after becoming Swedish road racing champion in 1996 with the Italian cycling team Cantina Tollo . In his first year he won the Tour of Sweden . In 1999 he won a stage of the Tour de Langkawi and took part in the Tour de France for the first time in the summer . At the beginning of the following season he moved to the Danish team Fakta . In his second year there, he was the fastest to master a stage of the Rhineland-Palatinate Tour . Ljungqvist had his most successful year by far in 2002: first he won the two French one-day races Route Adélie and Paris-Camembert and later he won the Tour of Luxembourg . In 2003 he made a one-year guest appearance at Crédit Agricole and then moved to Alessio-Bianchi . At the UCI Road World Championships in Madrid in 2005 , he finished fourth and thus achieved the best placement of a Swedish cyclist at world championships to date.

Since 2006, Ljungqvist went for the Danish ProTour - Team CSC . After the 2009 season, he retired from professional cycling after becoming Swedish road racing champion again. Overall, Ljungqvist was Swedish champion six times, in the road race, in the time trial and in the relay. He was also twice Nordic champion in the individual time trial.

In 2004 and 2008 Ljungqvist started at the Olympic Games in road racing . In 2004 he was ranked 14th in Athens and 57th in Beijing in 2008 .

Ljungqvist works for the cycling team Sky ProCycling as sporting director (as of December 2013).

successes

1996

• Swedish champion - road race

1998

• Overall ranking Tour of Sweden
• Swedish champion - individual time trial

1999

• Swedish champions - individual time trial (team competition)

2000

• Swedish champions - relay

2001

• Swedish champion - road race

2002

• Route Adélie
• Paris – Camembert
• Overall ranking Tour of Luxembourg

2008

• one stage Tour of Poland (team time trial)

2009

• Swedish champion - road race

Teams

• 1998–1999 Cantina Tollo-Alexia Alluminio
• 2000–2001 team fact
• 2002 EDS fact
• 2003 Crédit Agricole
• 2004 Alessio-Bianchi
• 2005 Liquigas-Bianchi
• 2006-2007 Team CSC
• 2008 Team CSC-Saxo Bank
• 2009 Team Saxo Bank

Web links

• Marcus Ljungqvist in the Radsportseiten.net database
• Marcus Ljungqvist in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Marcus Ljungqvist in the Tour de France database(French / English )
• Marcus Ljungqvist's website. Retrieved December 26, 2013 . 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ljungqvist slutar som cykelproffs. Eurosport.com, October 9, 2009, accessed December 26, 2013 . 
2. ↑ Marcus Ljungqvist. (No longer available online.) Sky Pro Cycling, archived from the original on November 25, 2013 ; Retrieved December 26, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.