Mikhail Ignatiev (cyclist)
.JPG) Ignatiev at the 2011 Tour de Romandie |
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| Full name | Mikhail Borisovich Ignatiev | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 7 May 1985 Leningrad, Soviet Union |
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| Height | 1.76 m (5 ft 9 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 67 kg (150 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Current team | Team Katusha | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Discipline | Road Track |
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| Role | Rider | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rider type | Time trialist/Breakaway specialist | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 2004–2005 | Lokomotiv | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 2006–2008 2009– |
Tinkoff Restaurants Team Katusha |
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| Olympic Points Race (2004) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Mikhail Borisovich Ignatiev (Russian: Михаил Борисович Игнатьев) (born 7 May 1985) is a Russian professional track and road bicycle racer. He currently rides for UCI ProTour team Team Katusha, as well as participating in various track events. He is known as a time trial specialist, and also has a reputation for making the breakaway in road races and trying, often with success, to solo to victory.
Career
In 2004 Ignatiev achieved his biggest success to date, winning a gold medal in the points race at the Athens Olympics. On the road, Ignatiev came to prominence with his ability in the individual time trial. In 2002 and 2003, he was the World Junior Champion, while in 2005 he became the World Under 23 Champion.
Ignatiev signed his first professional contract in 2006, when he started riding for the Tinkoff Restaurants cycling team. This team competed mainly in Russia, but Ignatiev made a big impact during a series of Spanish races in the middle part of the season.
When Tinkoff Credit Systems was established from Tinkoff Restaurants in 2007, Ignatiev moved to Marina di Massa, Italy. Early in the 2007 cycling season, Ignatiev made a name for himself by winning a stage of the Tour Méditerranéen and the Trofeo Laigueglia with successful late attacks. He continued his form throughout the season and won two time trials, the Prologue in Ster Elektrotoer, Stage 4 of the Regio-Tour and the first stage of Vuelta a Burgos.
In the 2009 cycling season he moved to UCI World Tour Team Katusha, a newly-formed Russian cycling team, sponsored by Itera, Gazprom and Rostechnologies. In his first season he achieved some greatest results having taken two podiums at 2009 Tour de France.
Palmarès
- 2002
- 1st, Junior World Championships, individual time trial
- 1st, Junior World Track Championships, points race
- 1st, Junior World Track Championships, team pursuit
- 1st, Junior European Track Championships, points race
- 2003
- 1st, Junior World Championships, individual time trial
- 1st, Junior World Track Championships, madison
- 1st, Junior World Track Championships, team pursuit
- 1st, Junior European Track Championships, team pursuit
- 2004
- Olympic gold medal, points race
- 2005
- 1st, Under 23 World Championships, individual time trial
- 2006 – Tinkoff Restaurants
- 1st, Clasica Internacional "Txuma"
- 1st, General Classification, Volta a Lleida
- 1st, Stage 1, Volta a Lleida
- 1st, Stage 2, Volta a Lleida
- 1st, European Track Championships, individual pursuit
- 2nd, Under 23 World Championships, individual time trial
- 2007 – Tinkoff Credit Systems
- 1st, Trofeo Laigueglia
- 1st, Stage 3, Tour Méditerranéen
- 1st, Prologue, Ster Elektrotoer
- 1st, Stage 4, Regio-Tour
- 1st, Stage 1, Vuelta a Burgos
- 2nd, GP d'Ouverture La Marseillaise
- 5th, Tour du Haut Var
- 3rd, 2007 UCI Track Cycling World Championships - Men's Points Race
- 1st, Fuga Gilera classification, Giro d'Italia
- 2nd, Under 23 World Championships, individual time trial
- 2009 – Katusha
- 2nd, Stage 5, Tour de France
- 3rd, Stage 18, Tour de France, individual time trial
- 2010 – Katusha
- 1st, Stage 6, Tirreno–Adriatico
- 2011 – Katusha
- 1st
National Individual Time Trial Champion - Combativity award
Stage 16 Tour de France - 2012 – Katusha
- 3rd Overall, Driedaagse van West-Vlaanderen
- 2013 – Katusha
- 1st
Sprints classification Tour of Turkey
External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Mikhail Ignatiev |
- Team profile
- Mikhail Ignatiev on Sport-Topics.Ru
- Mikhail Ignatiev (cyclist) at Trap-Friis.dk. Archive copy at the Wayback Machine (archived 24 May 2011)
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