Martin Toft Madsen

Martin Toft Madsen

Martin Toft Madsen with his 2017 championship medal
To person
Date of birth	February 20, 1985
nation	Denmark
discipline	Street
Driver type	Time trial
To the team
Current team	BHS-PL Concrete Bornholm
function	driver
Last updated: August 6, 2019

Martin Toft Madsen (born February 20, 1985 in Birkerød ) is a Danish cyclist .

Athletic career

From 2016 to 2018, Martin Toft Madsen was the Danish time trial champion three times in a row . In 2017 he also won the renowned Chrono des Nations time trial competition .

On July 26, 2018, Toft Madsen tried to improve Bradley Wiggins' hour record of June 7, 2015 over 54.526 kilometers on the Velodromo Bicentenario in Aguascalientes, Mexico (altitude around 1880 meters) . He covered 53.63 kilometers in 60 minutes, so that he was 896 meters short of Wiggins' record. With that, however, he achieved the second-longest distance covered in the hour and a new Danish hour record.

successes

Street

2016

• Danish champion - individual time trial

2017

• Chrono des Nations
• Danish champion - individual time trial

2018

• Danish champion - individual time trial
• Hafjell Grand Prix
• Chrono Champenois
• Duo Normand (with Rasmus Christian Quaade )
• Chrono des Nations

2019

• one stage tour of Denmark

Teams

• 2015 Team Almeborg-Bornholm
• 2016 Team Almeborg-Bornholm
• 2017 BHS-Almeborg-Bornholm
• 2018 BHS-Almeborg-Bornholm
• 2019 BHS-Almeborg-Bornholm
• 2020 BHS-PL Beton Bornholm

Web links

Commons : Martin Toft Madsen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Martin Toft Madsen in the Radsportseiten.net database
• Martin Toft Madsen in the ProCyclingStats.com database
• UCI Hour Record - Aguascalientes (MEX) / Martin Toft Madsen. In: uci.ch. July 25, 2018, accessed August 1, 2018 . 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Toft Madsen misses the hourly world record, but drives the second best distance. In: rad-net.de. July 27, 2018, accessed August 1, 2018 .