Mikhail Borisovich Ignatiev

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Mikhail Borisovich Ignatiev Road cycling
(2011)
(2011)
To person
Date of birth May 7, 1985
nation RussiaRussia Russia
discipline Road / rail (endurance)
End of career 2014
Most important successes
Olympic games
  • Gouden medaille.svg - Points race
Last updated: July 20, 2018

Michail Borissowitsch Ignatjew ( Russian Михаил Борисович Игнатьев ; born May 7, 1985 in Leningrad ) is a former Russian cyclist who competed in races on track and road cycling .

Athletic career

In his first years in international cycling, Mikhail Ignatiev was very successful on the track and on the road. In 2002 and 2003 he was four times junior world champion and three times European champion (juniors and U23) on the track and twice junior world champion on the road. In 2002, he became Junior World Champion in the individual time trial in Zolder, Belgium, and defended this title the following year. In 2004 he had his greatest success to date: at the Olympic Games in Athens , when he was 19, he relegated reigning Olympic champions Joan Llaneras and Guido Fulst to their places in the points run on the track .

From 2004 Ignatjew for Lokomotiv and from 2006 mainly competed in road races. At the 2005 road cycling world championships in Madrid , he was time trial champion in the U23 class. Between 2006 and 2008 Ignatjew drove for the Russian Continental Team Team Tinkoff Credit Systems . In his first year there he won the Clásica Memorial Txuma and two stages as well as the overall ranking at the Volta a Lleida . In autumn 2007 he became U23 time trial runner- up in Salzburg . In the same year he had other successes, such as stage wins in the Mediterranean Tour , the Burgos Tour , the Rothaus Regio Tour and the prologue success at the Ster Elektrotoer . He also won the Trofeo Laigueglia . In 2010 he became the Russian champion in the individual time trial and won a stage from Tirreno-Adriatico . , with his team he won the team time trial of the Settimana Internazionale in 2013 .

Ignatiev started ten times in major country tours . He drove them all to the end, but could never place in the top hundred.

Honors

Ignatiew was honored with the induction into the Hall of Fame of the European cycling association Union Européenne de Cyclisme .

successes

Street

2002
2003
2005
2006
2007
2010
2013

train

2002
  • Jersey rainbow.svg World Champion Team Pursuit (Juniors)
  • Jersey rainbow.svg World Champion points race (Juniors)
  • European champion Junior European Champion - points race
2003
2004
2005

Grand Tour placements

Grand Tour 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012
Maglia Rosa Giro d'Italia 127 140 162 131 - 143
Yellow jersey Tour de France - - 137 - 145 -
Red jersey Vuelta a España - 104 - 146 - 171

Teams

Web links

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