Michael Blaudzun

Michael Blaudzun at the prologue of the Tour de Romandie 2007

Michael Blaudzun (born April 30, 1973 in Herning ) is a former Danish cyclist .

Blaudzun turned pro at Novell in 1995 . Before moving to CSC in 2001 , he drove for Rabobank and the Telekom team, among others . The water carrier drove the Tour de France three times and finished it twice. In 1998 he started at the International Peace Tour and finished 15th in the overall ranking.

At the end of 2008 Michael Blaudzun ended his active cycling career. In December 2010 he was introduced by Michael Rasmussen as the future sporting director of the new Christina-Watches team , after he had already held this position with the Designa Kokken team the year before.

Michael Blaudzun is the son of the cyclist and world champion in the team pursuit Verner Blaudzun .

successes

1996

• Sweden tour
• a stage Rhineland-Palatinate tour

1999

• one stage and overall ranking Herald Sun Tour

2001

• Hesse tour
• Danish champion - individual time trial

2003

• Danish champion - individual time trial

2004

• Danish champion - road race

2005

• Grand Prix SATS
• Danish champion - individual time trial

2006

• one stage Settimana Internazionale (team time trial)
• one stage Giro d'Italia (team time trial)
• Team time trial Eindhoven

2007

• Team time trial Eindhoven

Teams

• 1995 Novell
• 1996-1997 Rabobank
• 1998 Team Telekom
• 1999 Home-Jack & Jones
• 2000 MemoryCard-Jack & Jones
• 2001–2002 Team CSC-Tiscali
• 2003-2008 Team CSC

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Maik Märtin: 50 years of Course de la Paix . Agency Construct, Leipzig 1998, p. 230 .
2. ↑ Blaudzun is to become the sporting director of the Rasmussen team on radsport-news.com

Web links

• Michael Blaudzun in the Radsportseiten.net database
• Michael Blaudzun in the Tour de France database(French / English )