Miguel Alzamora
Miguel Alzamora Riera (born February 17, 1974 in Artà ) is a former Spanish cyclist , world champion in two-man team driving (1997) and two-time Olympic athlete (2000, 2004).
Career
Miguel Alzamora grew up in Artà on the Spanish Balearic island of Mallorca .
He became world champion in two-man team driving for the first time in 1997 at the track cycling world championships , together with his compatriot Joan Llaneras . In the 2000 season, Alzamora rode for a year for the Amica Chips-Tacconi Sport road cycling team . Three times he was Spanish champion on the track and won multiple races in the UCI Track Cycling World Cup .
Alzamora competed twice at the Olympic Games: in 2000 , he competed in the team pursuit and finished twelfth with Toni Tauler , Isaac Gálvez and José Francisco Jarque . At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens , Greece , he finished sixth with Llaneras.
Today, Miguel Alzamora runs a bicycle shop in his hometown of Artà, is president of the Club Ciclista Artanenc and is involved in organizing cycling events. (As of 2016)
successes
- 1997
- Track cycling world champion in Madison (with Joan Llaneras )
- 1999
- a stage Cinturón a Mallorca
- 2000
- 2002
- 2006
Web links
- Miguel Alzamora in the Radsportseiten.net database
- Miguel Alzamora in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Club Ciclista Artanenc. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on May 17, 2014 ; Retrieved December 27, 2013 (Catalan). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
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SURNAME | Alzamora, Miguel |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Alzamora Riera, Miguel |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Spanish cyclist |
DATE OF BIRTH | 17th February 1974 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Artà |