Mickaël Bourgain

Mickaël Bourgain

Mickaël Bourgain
To person
Date of birth	May 28, 1980
nation	France
discipline	Train (short term)
Most important successes
Olympic games 2008 - sprint 2004 - team sprint (with Laurent Gané and Arnaud Tournant )
Last updated: November 8, 2016

Mickaël Bourgain (born May 28, 1980 in Boulogne-sur-Mer ) is a former French cyclist . He was four times world champion in team sprint on the track and won two bronze medals at the Olympic Games.

Mickaël Bourgain was internationally active as a track cyclist from 1999, when he took first place in both the sprint and team sprint (with Arnaud Tournant and Vincent Le Quellec ) at the Track Cycling World Cup in Cali .

Bourgain won his four world titles in the team sprint : 2004 in Melbourne (with Laurent Gané and Arnaud Tournant), 2006 in Bordeaux with Arnaud Tournant and Grégory Baugé , 2007 in Palma also with Tournant and Baugé and in 2009 with Baugé and Kévin Sireau . In 2005, in Los Angeles, he was also runner-up in the sprint world championship.

Mickaël Bourgain drove for the Équipe Cofidis from 1999 to 2009 , when his contract was not renewed. He switched to the “AVC Aix-en-Provence” team to prepare for the 2012 Olympic Games in London . There he started the road race , which he did not finish. In the Keirin, he finished eighth. In 2013 he ended his cycling career.

successes

1999

• Track Cycling World Cup in Cali - sprint, team sprint (with Arnaud Tournant and Vincent Le Quellec )

2003

• French champion - 1000 meter time trial

2004

• Olympic Games - Team Sprint (with Laurent Gané and Arnaud Tournant )
• World Champion - Team Sprint (with Laurent Gané and Arnaud Tournant )
• Track Cycling World Cup in Aguascalientes - Sprint, Keirin, Team Sprint (with Laurent Gané and Arnaud Tournant )
• French master - Keirin

2005

• World Championship - Sprint
• Track Cycling World Cup in Manchester - Sprint
• Track Cycling World Cup in Los Angeles - Sprint
• French master - Keirin

2006

• World Champion - Team Sprint (with Arnaud Tournant and Grégory Baugé )
• Track Cycling World Cup in Los Angeles - team sprint (with Grégory Baugé and François Pervis )

2007

• World Champion - Team Sprint (with Arnaud Tournant and Grégory Baugé )
• World Championship - Sprint
• Track Cycling World Cup in Sydney - Sprint

2008

• Olympic Games - Sprint
• World Championship - Sprint

2009

• World Champion - Team Sprint (with Grégory Baugé and Kévin Sireau )
• Track Cycling World Cup in Beijing - team sprint (with Kévin Sireau and François Pervis )

2011

• World Championship - Sprint
• European Championship - Team Sprint (with Kévin Sireau and François Pervis )

Web links

Commons : Mickaël Bourgain  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Mickaël Bourgain in the Radsportseiten.net database
• Mickaël Bourgain's weblog
• Mickaël Bourgain in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Laprovence.com: "Mickaël Bourgain à l'AVC Aix" (French)
2. ↑ Cycling News: France fills one Olympic road spot with track sprinter - Cyclingnews.com. In: cyclingnews.com. July 5, 2012, accessed November 8, 2016 .