Michaël D'Almeida

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Michaël D'Almeida Road cycling
Michaël D'Almeida - World Championship bronze in time trial (2020)
Michaël D'Almeida - World Championship bronze in time trial (2020)
To person
Nickname 3rd September 1987
nation FranceFrance France
discipline train
Driver type Short term
Most important successes
Olympic games
2016 Bronze medal-2008OB.svg - team sprint
2012 Silver medal-2008OB.svg - team sprint
UCI track world championships
2015 World Champion - team sprint
Last updated: June 8, 2018

Michaël D'Almeida (born September 3, 1987 in Évry ) is a French track cyclist and specialist in short-term disciplines. He is a two-time world champion in the team sprint.

Athletic career

In 2003 Michaël D'Almeida recorded his first major success when he became French sprint runner-up for youngsters . In 2005 he achieved three third places in the national championships, in the sprint, in the 1-km time trial and in the team sprint . In 2005 he became Junior European Champion in Team Sprint with Kévin Sireau and Alexandre Volant , in 2007 Team Sprint European Champion (U23) with Grégory Baugé and Didier Henriette .

In 2008 D'Almeida won both the European Track Championships and the French championships in the 1 km time trial. In the same year he was runner-up in the same discipline in Manchester ; He was able to repeat this success in 2010 . In addition, he was able to achieve podium places in several World Cup races . At the UCI Track World Championships 2011 in Apeldoorn , he was world champion in the team sprint, together with Baugé and Kévin Sireau . In January 2012, the World Cycling Federation Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) announced that D'Almeida had been stripped of his world championship title in the 2011 team sprint because his teammate Baugé had repeatedly violated the reporting requirements of the World Doping Agency WADA .

At the 2012 Olympic Games in London , Michaël D'Almeida won the team sprint silver medal together with Kévin Sireau and Grégory Baugé. In 2015 he was again world champion in the team sprint, with the world anti-doping agency

In 2016 D'Almeida was nominated for participation in the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro . Together with Pervis and Baugé he won the bronze medal in the team sprint, in the Keirin he finished eleventh. In 2018 and 2019 he won silver and bronze medals at World and UEC European Rail Championships .

Others

Michaël D'Almeida has been driving for Union Sportive de Créteil since 2006 , a club that has produced successful track sprinters such as Daniel Morelon , Pierre Trentin Grégory Baugé and Fabrice Colas .

He has been a Knight of the French National Order of Merit since 2013 .

successes

2005
2006
2007
2008
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2018
2019
2020

Web links

Commons : Michaël D'Almeida  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bauge and French sprinters have to hand in World Cup gold on radsport-news.com v. January 6, 2012
  2. ^ Aurélien Billot: Légion d'honneur: Lavillenie et Karabatic recalés. In: sport24.lefigaro.fr. January 2, 2013, accessed June 8, 2018 (fr_FR).
personal data
SURNAME Almeida, Michaël D '
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French track cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd September 1987
PLACE OF BIRTH Evry