Mikkel Bjerg

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Mikkel Bjerg Road cycling
Mikkel Bjerg as U23 world champion 2018
Mikkel Bjerg as U23 world champion 2018
To person
Date of birth 3rd November 1998 (age 21)
nation DenmarkDenmark Denmark
discipline Road / rail (endurance)
Driver type Time trial
To the team
Current team UAE Team Emirates
Societies)
Roskilde Cykle Ring
Most important successes
UCI Road World Championships (U23)
2017, 2018, 2019 World Champion - individual time trial
Last updated: December 19, 2018

Mikkel Bjerg (born November 3, 1998 in Copenhagen ) is a Danish cyclist who is active on the road and track .

Athletic career

Mikkel Bjerg started cycling with the Roskilde Cykle Ring . Due to a knee injury, he had to stop training and switched to swimming . After a 14-month break from injury, he started cycling again and was the Danish junior champion in the individual time trial in 2016 .

In the same year Bjerg also made international attention when he at the Junior World Championships second place in the individual time trial finished the juniors. He won the Aubel-Thimister-La Gleize race and a stage of the Tour de l'Abitibi .

In 2017 Bjerg became U23 world champion in the individual time trial and vice-European champion in the U23. In the Chrono des Nations he finished second behind his compatriot Martin Toft Madsen . He also started on the track and became Danish champions in the team pursuit with Casper von Folsach , Casper Pedersen and Rasmus Christian Quaade . For the following season Bjerg signed a contract with Hagens Berman Axeon . In 2018 he was again U23 time trial world champion .

On October 4, 2018, Mikkel Bjerg improved the Danish hour record at the Thorvald Ellegaard Arena in Odense . He covered 53.730 kilometers in one hour and thus improved Martin Toft Madsen's record from July of that year. Unofficially, he drove it to Bradley Wiggins the second longest distance in 60 minutes; but since there were no representatives of the World Cycling Federation UCI on site, this attempt remained unofficial at international level. In October 2017, the then 18-year-old had already improved the Danish record to 52.311 kilometers.

Private

Mikkel Bjerg is in a relationship with the Danish road champion from 2016, Emma Norsgaard Jørgensen (as of 2018).

successes

Street

2016
2017
2018
2019

train

2017
2018
  • MaillotDinamarca.svg Danish champion - 1000 meter time trial, single pursuit

Teams

Web links

Commons : Mikkel Bjerg  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Ung dansker fyldt med selvtillid før titelforsvar: Jeg er den bedste - TV 2. In: sport.tv2.dk. September 24, 2018, accessed October 4, 2018 (Danish).
  2. ↑ 2018 World Cycling Championships: Mikkel Bjerg again U23 world time trial champion (September 24, 2018)
  3. ↑ Mikkel Bjerg sætter dansk time record. In: dr.dk. October 4, 2018, accessed October 4, 2018 (Danish).
  4. ↑ Bussi misses the hour record - Bjerg sets the Danish record. In: rad-net.de. October 9, 2017, accessed October 4, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Bjerg, Mikkel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH November 3, 1998
PLACE OF BIRTH Copenhagen