Michael Mørkøv

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Michael Mørkøv Road cycling
Michael Mørkøv - World Champion in Madison (2020)
Michael Mørkøv - World Champion in Madison (2020)
To person
Full name Michael Mørkøv Christensen
Date of birth April 30, 1985
nation DenmarkDenmark Denmark
discipline Road / train
Driver type Sprinter (road) / endurance (rail)
To the team
Current team Deceuninck-Quick-Step
function driver
Team (s)
2005–2008
2009–2015
2016–2017
2018- 		Team GLS
Saxo / Tinkoff
Team Katusha
Quick Step / Deceunnick
Most important successes
Olympic games
2008 silver team pursuit
UCI track world championships
2009 World Champion team pursuit, two-man team driving
UEC European Rail Championships
2019 European Champion 2016 two-man team driving
Last updated: October 21, 2019
European Champion in Madison 2019: Mørkøv (l.) With Lasse Norman Hansen

Michael Mørkøv Christensen (born April 30, 1985 in Kokkedal , Fredensborg municipality ) is a Danish cyclist who competes in races on track and road .

Athletic career

Michael Mørkøv started his career in 2005 with the Danish Continental Team GLS . In his first season he was fourth at Fyen Rundt . In 2006 he was second in the second part of the Olympia's Tour and fourth in the German one-day race around the Elm .

In March 2006 he won his first gold medal at the track cycling World Cup in Sydney in the team pursuit under his national coach Heiko Salzwedel . He won a second gold medal in Madison with Alex Rasmussen .

At the 2006/07 Track Cycling World Cup in Sydney in November 2006 , Mørkøv was second in the team pursuit and in Madison (with Alex Rasmussen ). In Los Angeles in January 2007 he won the Madison together with Rasmussen and was second with the Danish four-man track. Winning the bronze medal in a four-man team at the track cycling world championships in Palma in March 2007 was the first medal for a Danish four-man team since 1993.

At the Olympic Games in Beijing in 2008 Mørkøv won silver in the team pursuit with Alex Rasmussen, Casper Jörgensen, Jens-Erik Madsen and Michael F. Christensen with a new national record of 3: 56.831, the third fastest time in team driving so far. Together with Rasmussen, he became vice world champion in two-man team driving in 2008 . The following year he won the world championship title in both team pursuit and two-man team driving .

Since 2010 Mørkøv has been driving increasingly on the road. By 2017 he had done six grand tours . His greatest individual success on the road was the victory in the mass sprint of the 6th stage of the Vuelta a España 2013 . Above all, however, he became an important part of the sprint train, especially the Deceuninck-Quick-Step team, and as such is involved in the victories of the sprint specialists.

In 2018, he and Lasse Norman Hansen won the two-man team event at the track World Cup in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines . In 2019 he became Danish road racing champion and, together with Norman Hansen, European champion in two-man team driving.

successes

train

2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2015
2017
2018
2019
2020

Street

Michael Mørkøv at the Four Days of Dunkirk 2009
2008
2013
2015
2018
  • MaillotDinamarca.svg Danish champion - road race
2019
2019
  • MaillotDinamarca.svg Danish champion - road race

Grand Tour placements

Grand Tour 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
Maglia Rosa Giro d'Italia 129 155 - - - - - - 107 -
Yellow jersey Tour de France - - 93 - 134 - DNF - - 152
Red jersey Vuelta a España - - - 128 - - - - 148 -
Legend: DNF: did not finish , abandoned or withdrawn from the race due to timeout.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Quick-Steps sprint train is the key to Viviani's success. In: radsport-news.com. July 10, 2019, accessed March 6, 2020 .

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personal data
SURNAME Mørkøv, Michael
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mørkøv Christensen, Michael (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH April 30, 1985
PLACE OF BIRTH Kokkedal, Fredensborg Municipality