Mie Bekker Lacota

Mie Bekker Lacota

To person
Date of birth	November 10, 1988
nation	Denmark
discipline	Road / track bike
To the team
Current team	End of career
function	driver
End of career	2007/2014
Most important successes
UCI track world championships 2007 - points race UCI Road World Championships for Juniors 2005 - road racing UCI Track World Championships for Juniors 2006 - points race UEC European Road Championships (U23) 2006 - road racing, individual time trial UEC European Rail Championships 2005 - points race (juniors)
Last updated: March 14, 2017

Mie Bekker Lacota (born November 10, 1988 in Greve ) is a former Danish cyclist who was successful on track and road.

Athletic career

Lacota was initially active as a cyclist until 2007 and was able to win numerous national championship titles in just a few years. In 2005 she won at the Road World Championship title in the junior road race as well as at the 2006 Junior Track World Championships in the points race . At the 2007 World Track Championships in Palma , she was runner-up in the points race under the Danish national coach Heiko Salzwedel . She was European champion three times, in 2005 in Fiorenzuola d'Arda in the points race on the track and in 2006 in Valkenburg in the individual time trial and in the road race. She has been Danish champion nine times in various cycling disciplines. In 2005 she won the juniors race around the Henninger Tower ahead of her compatriot Trine Schmidt .

In 2007 Mie Bekker Lacota became a professional and signed up for the “Team Flexpoint”, where Luise Keller , Mirjam Melchers and Trine Schmidt were among others . She won the Omloop Het Volk race . After only one season as a professional, Mie Bekker Lacota ended her active cycling career to begin a teacher training course.

In 2014, Bekker Lacota briefly returned to active cycling and became a member of the BMS Ladies Team . In the meantime she had studied, worked part-time for the Danish cycling association Dansk Cyklist Forbund and had become a mother.

successes

train

2003

• Danish Junior Champion - Single Pursuit

2004

• Danish Junior Champion - Single Pursuit

2005

• Junior European Champion - points race

2006

• Junior World Champion - points race
• Danish Junior Champion - Single Pursuit
• Danish champion - scratch, single chase, sprint

2007

• Danish champion - sprint

Street

2005

• Junior World Champion - Road Race
• Junior World Championship - Individual Time Trial
• Danish Junior Champion - Individual Time Trial

2006

• Junior European Champion - road races, individual time trials
• Danish Champion - Team Time Trial (with Trine Schmidt and Anette Berg )
• Danish Junior Champion - Individual Time Trial

2007

• Omloop Het Volk

Web links

• Mie Bekker Lacota in the ProCyclingStats.com database
• Mie Bekker Lacota in the Radsportseiten.net database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Feltet.dk: Mie Lacota tilbage på cycle Feltet.dk. In: feltet.dk. March 12, 2014, accessed June 22, 2015 (dk).