Michael Valgren

Michael Valgren
	Michael Valgren (2014)
To person
Full name	Michael Valgren Andersen
Date of birth	February 7, 1992
nation	Denmark
discipline	Street
To the team
Current team	NTT Pro Cycling
function	driver
Most important successes
	Amstel Gold Race 2018
	Last updated: October 3, 2018

Michael Valgren Andersen (born February 7, 1992 ) is a Danish cyclist .

Athletic career

Valgren won as a U23 driver a. a. 2012 and 2013 in his age group Liège – Bastogne – Liège and a stage of the Tour de l'Avenir 2013. From the 2014 season he received his first contract with a UCI WorldTeam , the Danish team Tinkoff-Saxo . In his first year with this team, he was Danish road racing champion and won the Tour of Denmark .

At the Amstel Gold Race 2016 , he missed his first victory in a UCI WorldTour race after he was beaten by his runaway Enrico Gasparotto in a two-man sprint. In the summer of the same year, he repeated his overall victory in the Tour of Denmark in 2016 .

At the beginning of the 2018 season, Valgren had his greatest success to date: he won the WorldTour race Omloop Het Nieuwsblad by pulling 2.5 kilometers away from a group of twelve. At the Amstel Gold Race he won his second WorldTour race by winning a two-man sprint against Roman Kreuziger , with whom he attacked from the top group in the final of the race.