Michaël D'Almeida
Michaël D'Almeida - World Championship bronze in time trial (2020) | |
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Nickname | 3rd September 1987 |
nation | France |
discipline | train |
Driver type | Short term |
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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
- Junior World Championship - team sprint (with Kévin Sireau and Alexandre Volant )
- Junior European Champion - Team Sprint (with Kévin Sireau and Alexandre Volant )
- 2006
- French champion - team sprint (with Grégory Baugé and Rémi Rano )
- 2007
- Track Cycling World Cup in Sydney - 1000 meter time trial
- European Champion (U23) - Team Sprint (with Grégory Baugé and Didier Henriette )
- 2008
- World Championship - 1000 meter time trial
- Track Cycling World Cup in Sydney - 1000 meter time trial
- European Champion (U23) - 1000-meter time trial
- European Championship (U23) - Sprint, Keirin
- French champion - 1000 meter time trial
- 2010
- World Championship - 1000 meter time trial, team sprint (with Kévin Sireau and Grégory Baugé )
- Track Cycling World Cup in Cali - team sprint (with Kévin Sireau and Grégory Baugé )
- European Championship - Team Sprint (with Kévin Sireau and François Pervis )
- 2011
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World Champion - Team Sprint (with Kévin Sireau and Grégory Baugé )(title revoked) - Track Cycling World Cup in Manchester - team sprint (with Kévin Sireau and Grégory Baugé )
- Track Cycling World Cup in Beijing - team sprint (with Kévin Sireau and François Pervis )
- 2012
- Olympic Games - Team Sprint (with Kévin Sireau and Grégory Baugé )
- World Championship - 1000 meter time trial, team sprint (with Kévin Sireau and Grégory Baugé )
- French champion - 1000 meter time trial
- 2013
- World Championship - Team Sprint (with Julien Palma and François Pervis )
- European Championship - Team Sprint (with Grégory Baugé and François Pervis )
- 2014
- World Championship - Team Sprint (with World Anti-Doping Agency)
- European Championship - Team Sprint (with Kévin Sireau and Grégory Baugé )
- 2015
- World Champion - Team Sprint (with Kévin Sireau and Grégory Baugé )
- French champion - 1000 meter time trial
- 2016
- Olympic Games - Team Sprint (with François Pervis and Grégory Baugé )
- 2018
- European Championship - Team Sprint (with François Pervis , Quentin Lafargue and Sébastien Vigier )
- French champion - 1000 meter time trial
- 2019
- World Championship - Team Sprint (with Quentin Lafargue , Sébastien Vigier and Grégory Baugé )
- World Championship - 1000 meter time trial
- European Championship - 1000 meter time trial
- 2020
- World Championship - 1000 meter time trial
Web links
- Michaël D'Almeida in the Radsportseiten.net database
- Michaël D'Almeida in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- US Créteil Cyclisme website
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bauge and French sprinters have to hand in World Cup gold on radsport-news.com v. January 6, 2012
- ^ Aurélien Billot: Légion d'honneur: Lavillenie et Karabatic recalés. In: sport24.lefigaro.fr. January 2, 2013, accessed June 8, 2018 (fr_FR).
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Almeida, Michaël D ' |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French track cyclist |
DATE OF BIRTH | 3rd September 1987 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Evry |