Magnus Bäckstedt
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Full name | Magnus Bäckstedt |
Nickname | Magnus Maximus Big Maggy[1] |
Born | Linköping, Sweden | 30 January 1975
Height | 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in)[2] |
Weight | 94 kg (207 lb; 14 st 11 lb)[2] |
Team information | |
Current team | Retired |
Discipline | Road |
Role | Rider |
Rider type | Classics specialist |
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2002–2003 | Team Fakta |
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2009 | MagnusMaximusCoffee.com |
2012 | Team UK Youth |
2013 | MG-Maxifuel |
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Magnus Bäckstedt (born 30 January 1975)[2] is a Swedish former professional road bicycle racer. His most notable achievement in cycling is winning Paris–Roubaix in 2004.
Early life
Born in Linköping, Östergötland Bäckstedt began as a skier, selected for the national team when he was 14.[3]
Career
Bäckstedt began his professional career in 1996,[4] riding for Collstrop before moving to Palmans in 1997. In 1998, having switched to You have called {{Contentious topics}}
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In 2002 and 2003 he rode for Team Fakta where he was the strongest rider in 2003. When Fakta closed he went to You have called {{Contentious topics}}
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- {{Contentious topics/list}} and {{Contentious topics/table}} show which topics are currently designated as contentious topics. They are used by a number of templates and pages on Wikipedia. in 2008.[7] He was eliminated in that year's Tour de France for being too slow. He said:
- I had been going OK, and on that stage we decided to make it hard from the start because we were close enough to yellow to get the jersey. The first 60km were up and down, but I was going fine. Then there was this fourth-category climb and about halfway up I was suddenly short of breath. It was like I shut down from the waist down. I went straight out of the back. I calmed down and got back on top of it. There was 100km to go, but I went OK. I could see the numbers on the power meter and they were normal for the kind of effort you need to get to the finish on your own inside the time limit. I think I would have made it too, but there was a real steep hill just before the finish and my breathing and legs went again. I ended up four minutes outside the cut-off.[8]
Bäckstedt announced his retirement from professional cycling on 6 February 2009, citing a desire to focus on managing his developmental cycling team, Cyclesport.se-MagnusMaximusCoffee.com. Bäckstedt said he will also continue as a consultant with his former Garmin-Slipstream team. The Swede had struggled with a number of health issues during his career, including a serious knee injury, melanoma, and a separated shoulder and broken collarbone.[9]
On 13 November 2010, Bäckstedt announced at the UK Youth Centenary Gala that he would be coming out of retirement to lead the UK Youth Cycling Team along with Nigel Mansell and his sons.[10]
Bäckstedt rode for the MG Maxifuel team in 2013. Prior to round 8 of the Pearl Izumi Tour Series at Canary Wharf on 6 June 2013, he once again announced he was retiring and that the race would be his final one in professional road racing, his intention being to continue competing in triathlon and Ironman Triathlon events.
Personal life
Bäckstedt is married to British former cyclist Megan Hughes. They live in Wales,[11] moving there from Zulte, Belgium.[2] They have two daughters.[12] His elder daughter, Elynor, won bronze in the Team Pursuit at the 2018 UCI Junior track championships and bronze at the 2018 and 2019 UCI world championships in the junior women's time trial.[13][14][15][16] Younger daughter Zoë made her World Championships debut at the 2021 World Championships in Flanders, Belgium, where she won the gold medal in the Junior Women's Road Race and the silver medal in the Junior Women's Individual Time Trial.
Bäckstedt said: "We used to come back here [to Wales] every time I had a break. I prefer it to Belgium. You can ride 30 miles between villages here, whereas in Belgium you were stopping for traffic lights."[11]
His sister Cecilia is also a racing cyclist.[17]
Bäckstedt runs a coffee business with franchises in the United States and Sweden. Proceeds from the business support Swedish cycling.[12] In 2013 he joined Declan Quigley to commentate on the Tour of Britain for Eurosport.
Major results
- 1995
- Boland Bank Tour
- 1st Stages 4 & 7
- 1996
- 1st Overall Boland Bank Tour
- 1st Prologue & Stage 5
- 2nd GP D'Isbergues
- 1997
- 1st GP D'Isbergues
- 3rd Overall Boland Bank Tour
- 1998
- 1st Stage 19 Tour de France
- 2nd Overall Tour of Sweden
- 1st Stage 4b
- 1st Sprints competition Four Days of Dunkirk
- 1st Duo Normand (with Jérôme Neuville)
- 7th Paris–Roubaix
- 1999
- 3rd Overall Tour Down Under
- 2000
- 2nd Road race, National Road Championships
- 9th Vattenfall Cyclassics
- 2002
- 1st Road race, National Road Championships
- 1st Le Samyn
- 2003
- National Road Championships
- 1st Time trial
- 2nd Road race
- 1st Intergiro classification Giro d'Italia
- 2nd Nokere Koerse
- 2nd GP d'Ouverture la Marseillaise
- 3rd GP Herning
- 4th Ronde van Noord-Holland
- 2004
- 1st Paris–Roubaix
- 2nd Gent–Wevelgem
- 2nd CSC Classic
- 2005
- 4th Paris–Roubaix
- 8th Overall Tour of Qatar
- 2007
- National Road Championships
- 1st Road race
- 2nd Time trial
- 2008
- 1st Stage 1 (TTT) Giro d'Italia
- 8th Overall Three Days of De Panne
References
- ^ Abraham, Richard (7 June 2013). "Magnus Backstedt announces retirement". Cycling Weekly. Retrieved 2 August 2013.
- ^ a b c d e L'Équipe, France, 12 April 2004.
- ^ Vélo, Venezuela, undatec cutting.
- ^ Lequipe.fr
- ^ "Letour.fr". Archived from the original on 2008-11-04. Retrieved 2008-11-29.
- ^ A cycling word for an old-style, tough Belgian rider who does best in the worst conditions.
- ^ "Backstedt Bound for Slipstream-Chipotle - LondonCycleSport Events". Archived from the original on November 22, 2007. Retrieved August 7, 2007.
{{cite web}}
: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ Cyclingweekly.co.uk
- ^ Velonews.com Archived 2009-02-08 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Simon_MacMichael on November 15, 2010 – 19:41 (2010-11-15). "Magnus Backstedt to return to racing with help of Nigel Mansell and sons". road.cc. Retrieved 2012-01-01.
{{cite web}}
: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ a b Cycling Weekly, UK, 22 November 2003.
- ^ a b Pezcyclingnews.com
- ^ @Maggy_PR (16 August 2018). "Not sure I could be much prouder. @EBackstedt6 and her team mates pull off a bronze at THE Junior World Champs" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
- ^ "Tissot Live Timing".
- ^ "Final Results". Retrieved 13 April 2020.
- ^ "UCI Road World Championships - Women Junior Individual Time Trial-". Tissot Timing. Retrieved 13 April 2020.
- ^ Siteducyclisme.net
External links
- Magnus Bäckstedt at Cycling Archives
- Official website
- Danish Cycle Union profile
- Velobios profile