Michał Kwiatkowski

Michał Kwiatkowski

Michał Kwiatkowski at the Grand Prix de Fourmies 2015
To person
Nickname	Kwiato
Date of birth	June 2, 1990
nation	Poland
discipline	Street
To the team
Current team	Ineos
function	driver
Societies)
2007–2008 2008–2009 2009–2010	TKK Pacific MG Kvis Norda Pacific Aeronautica Militare Amica Chips
Team (s)
2010–2011 2011–2012 2012–2015 2016–	Caja Rural Radioshack Etixx-Quick Step Team Sky
Most important successes
Road World Champion 2014 Milan – Sanremo 2017 Amstel Gold Race 2015 E3 Harelbeke 2016 Strade Bianche 2017 Tirreno – Adriatico 2018
Last updated: March 14, 2018

Michał Kwiatkowski [ ˈmixaw kfjatˈkɔfski ] (born June 2, 1990 in Chełmża ) is a Polish cyclist who became world champion in road racing in 2014.

Career

Kwiatkowski achieved his first international victory in 2007 in the junior class at the International Cycling Cup in Grudziądz , where he also won the overall standings. In the same year he also won a stage and the overall classification as well as a section of the Giro della Lunigiana at the International Peace Tour . With these victories, he was able to win the overall ranking of the Junior Cycling World Cup .

At the European Road Cycling Championships in Sofia , Kwiatkowski won the silver medal in the individual time trial and gold in the road race. The next year he was successful at the Trofeo Città di Ivrea . At the International Peace Tour he won three stages and the overall ranking. At the Trofeo Karlsberg he was successful on two sections and was able to win the overall ranking. Furthermore, Kwiatkowski was European and world champion in the individual time trial in 2008. At the European championship in track cycling in Pruszków he won the bronze medal in the points race .

After Kwiatkowski won a stage in the Tour of Slovakia in 2009 , he finally switched to the Professional Continental Team Caja Rural . After a season without race wins, Kwiatkowski switched to radio shack in 2011 . There he took third place in the Three Days of West Flanders , the Three Days of De Panne and the Tour du Poitou-Charentes .

In 2012 Kwiatkowski signed a contract with the Belgian UCI ProTeam Omega Pharma Quick Step , where he was able to achieve his greatest successes as a professional cyclist. In the same year he took part in the Giro d'Italia 2012 for this . The following season he was also the Polish elite road champion and world champion in the team time trial . The 2013 Tour de France , during which he ten days the white jersey was best young rider, he finished eleventh. In 2014 he also won the Algarve Tour and the one-day race Strade Bianche . A little later he finished the one- day races Walloon Arrow and Liège – Bastogne – Liège, each of which was one of the classics , in third place.

At the end of the 2014 season, Kwiatkowski achieved his greatest success to date and became world champion in road racing in Ponferrada after he was able to break away from the field in a descent seven kilometers from the finish and then overtake a leading group on the last climb.

After finishing second in the overall ranking at the Algarve Tour and Paris – Nice , he succeeded in winning his first one-day race of the UCI WorldTour in April 2015 at the Amstel Gold Race in a sprint of a group of almost 20 people. His second victory in a World Tour one-day race in 2016 at E3 Harelbeke in a two-man sprint ahead of Peter Sagan .

Kwiatkowski on the 17th stage of the Tour de France 2018

In the 2017 season, Kwiatkowski won three one-day races of the WorldTour: In the Strade Bianche , he pulled away from a top group of seven on the finish slope. He won Milan – Sanremo in a three-man sprint ahead of Peter Sagan and Julian Alaphilippe . He won the Clásica San Sebastián in a five-man sprint. With Tirreno-Adriatico 2018 Kwiatkowski won his first stage race of the WorldTour.

Cycling academy

Kwiatkowski founded a cycling academy together with the local sports university in Toruń .

successes

2007

• European Champion - Road Race (Juniors)

2008

• European Champion - Individual Time Trial (Juniors)
• World Champion - Individual Time Trial (Juniors)

2009

• Polish Champion - Road Race (U23)

2012

• Prologue Driedaagse van West-Vlaanderen

2013

• Team time trial and youth competition Tirreno – Adriatico
• Polish champion - road race
• World champion - team time trial

2014

• Trofeo Serra de Tramuntana
• Overall ranking and two stages in Volta ao Algarve
• Strade Bianche
• Team time trial Tirreno – Adriatico
• Scoring Vuelta al País Vasco
• Prologue Tour de Romandie
• Polish champion - individual time trial
• a stage and points classification Tour of Britain
• World Championship - Team Time Trial
• World Champion - Road Race

2015

• Prologue and junior competition Paris – Nice
• Amstel Gold Race
• World Championship - Team Time Trial

2016

• E3 Harelbeke
• Team time trial Vuelta a España

2017

• Strade Bianche
• Milan – Sanremo
• Polish champion - individual time trial
• Clásica San Sebastián
• World Championship - Team Time Trial

2018

• Overall evaluation, points evaluation and two stages Volta ao Algarve
• Overall ranking Tirreno-Adriatico
• Prologue and team time trial Critérium du Dauphiné
• Polish champion - road race
• Overall classification, points classification, best Pole and two stages of the Tour of Poland

2019

• Scoring Paris – Nice

Important placements

Monuments of cycling

Monument to cycling	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019
Milan – Sanremo	-	-	-	-	67	40	1	11	3
Tour of Flanders	-	-	40	-	-	27	-	28	-
Paris – Roubaix	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Liège – Bastogne – Liège	-	-	92	3	21st	36	3	29
Lombardy tour	-	-	-	73	54	-	-	-

Grand Tours

Grand Tour	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019
Giro d'Italia	136	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Tour de France	-	11	28	DNF	-	57	49	83
Vuelta a España	-	-	-	-	DNF	-	43

Legend: DNF: did not finish , abandoned or withdrawn from the race due to timeout.

Awards

• International Flanders of the Year (2014)
• Golden Cross of Merit of the Republic of Poland (2014)
• Poland cyclist of the year 2014

Individual evidence

1. ↑ radsport-news.com of September 28, 2014: Kwiatkowski did not get involved in any games in Ponferrada
2. ↑ Kwiatkowski breaks the classic spell in Valkenburg. radsport-news.com, April 19, 2015, accessed March 26, 2016 . 
3. ↑ Kwiatkowski cheers, Sagan surrenders to his fate. radsport-news.com, March 25, 2016, accessed March 26, 2016 . 
4. ↑ Kwiatkowski surprised himself with a second victory. In: radsport-news.com. March 4, 2017. Retrieved October 17, 2017 . 
5. ^ "Kwiatkowski with the dying swan" on the Milan-Sanremo victory. In: radsport-news.com. March 18, 2017. Retrieved October 17, 2017 . 
6. ↑ - Kwiatkowski completes perfect Sky preparatory work in San Sebastian. In: radsport-news.com. July 17, 2017. Retrieved October 17, 2017 . 
7. ↑ Kwiatkowski founds a cycling academy in his hometown. radsport-news.com, October 14, 2013, accessed on March 23, 2016 . 
8. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from October 16, 2014 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
9. ↑ Wolfgang Brylla: Gold Cross of Merit for World Champion Kwiatkowski. radsport-news.com, October 23, 2014, accessed October 24, 2014 . 
10. ↑ Kwiatkowski and Pawłowska are Poland's cyclists of the year. radsport-news.com, January 26, 2015, accessed January 26, 2015 . 

Web links

Commons : Michał Kwiatkowski  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Michał Kwiatkowski in the ProCyclingStats.com database
• Michał Kwiatkowski in the Radsportseiten.net database
• Michał Kwiatkowski in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Michał Kwiatkowski in the database of CyclingQuotient.com (English)