Vladimir Miholjević

Vladimir Miholjević at the prologue of the Giro d'Italia 2010 in Amsterdam

Vladimir Miholjević (born January 18, 1974 in Zagreb ) is a former Croatian cyclist .

Athletic career

Vladimir Miholjević began his career in 1997 with the Slovenian cycling team KRKA-Telekom Slovenije . In 1998, 2000 and 2012 he was Croatian national champion in road racing, and in 2012 in the individual time trial . In 2000 he won the Tour du Doubs . In 2002 he moved to the Italian racing team Alessio , made his only tour start in 2003 and finished 50th, at the Giro d'Italia he competed eight times. From 2005 to 2009 Miholjević drove for the ProTour team Liquigas .

At the end of the 2012 season, Miholjević retired after becoming national road champion for the third time.

successes

1998

• Overall ranking and two stages of the Tour of Croatia
• Croatian champion - road race

2000

• Overall ranking and one stage of the Istrian Spring Trophy
• Croatian champion - road race
• Tour du Doubs

2001

• Poreč Trophy 1

2007

• Giro d'Italia team time trial

2012

• Croatian champion - individual time trial
• Croatian champion - road race

Placement in the Grand Tours

Grand Tour	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012
Giro d'Italia	-	24	31	DNF	65	21st	53	25th	31	-
Tour de France	50	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Vuelta a España	-	78	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

Legend: DNF: did not finish , abandoned or withdrawn from the race due to timeout.

Teams

• 1997-2001 KRKA-Telekom Slovenije
• 2002 Alessio
• 2003 Alessio
• 2004 Alessio-Bianchi
• 2005 Liquigas-Bianchi
• 2006 Liquigas
• 2007 Liquigas
• 2008 Liquigas
• 2009 Liquigas
• 2010 Acqua & Sapone-D'Angelo & Antenucci
• 2011 Acqua & Sapone
• 2012 Acqua & Sapone

Web links

Commons : Vladimir Miholjević  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Vladimir Miholjević in the Radsportseiten.net database
• Vladimir Miholjević in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Vladimir Miholjević in the Tour de France database(French / English )