Michael Valgren
 Valgren at the 2015 Tour de France | ||||||||||||||
| Personal information | ||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Michael Valgren Hundahl | |||||||||||||
| Born | Michael Valgren Andersen 7 February 1992 , Denmark | |||||||||||||
| Height | 1.79 m (5 ft 10+1⁄2 in) | |||||||||||||
| Weight | 71 kg (157 lb; 11 st 3 lb) | |||||||||||||
| Team information | ||||||||||||||
| Current team | EF Education–EasyPost | |||||||||||||
| Discipline | Road | |||||||||||||
| Role |
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| Professional teams | ||||||||||||||
| 2011–2013 | Glud & Marstrand–LRØ | |||||||||||||
| 2014–2016 | Tinkoff–Saxo[1] | |||||||||||||
| 2017–2018 | Astana[2] | |||||||||||||
| 2019–2020 | Team Dimension Data[3][4] | |||||||||||||
| 2021– | EF Education–Nippo | |||||||||||||
| Major wins | ||||||||||||||
| Stage races
One-day races and Classics | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Michael Valgren Hundahl (né Andersen; born 7 February 1992) is a Danish professional road racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam EF Education–EasyPost.[5] In 2018, Valgren won Omloop Het Nieuwsblad and the Amstel Gold Race.[6][7]
Career[]
He became a professional in 2011 at the age of just 19 riding for the Danish continental team Glud & Marstrand–LRØ, where he won two editions of the U23 Liège–Bastogne–Liège and several other noticeable wins.
In 2014 he entered the WorldTour, when he joined Tinkoff–Saxo. He made an immediate impact, as he won the Danish National Road Race Championships and the Danmark Rundt.[8]
He has ridden the Tour de France 6 times (2015 to 2020) as well as the 2014 Vuelta a Espana. 2018 served as a breakout year seeing him win the classics Omloop Het Nieuwsblad and the Amstel Gold Race.[9]
In November 2020, Valgren signed a two-year contract with the EF Education–Nippo team.[10]
Major results[]
Valgren (front) riding in the 2018 Tour of Flanders
- 2009
- 2nd Time trial, National Junior Road Championships
- 3rd Overall Grand Prix Général Patton
- 1st Stage 1
- 6th Overall Trofeo Karlsberg
- 8th Overall Niedersachsen-Rundfahrt der Junioren
- 2010
- National Junior Road Championships
- 2nd Time trial
- 3rd Road race
- 10th Time trial, UCI Juniors Road World Championships
- 10th Overall Liège–La Gleize
- 2011
- 4th Himmerland Rundt
- 2012
- 1st Liège–Bastogne–Liège Espoirs
- 2nd Eschborn–Frankfurt City Loop U23
- 6th Overall Kreiz Breizh Elites
- 8th Overall Coupe des nations Ville Saguenay
- 2013
- 1st
Overall Flèche du Sud
- 1st
Young rider classification - 1st Stage 3
- 1st
- 1st Liège–Bastogne–Liège Espoirs
- 1st Stage 3 Tour de l'Avenir
- 2nd Eschborn–Frankfurt City Loop U23
- 9th Overall Thüringen Rundfahrt der U23
- 10th GP Herning
- 2014
- National Road Championships
- 1st
Road race - 3rd Time trial
- 1st
- 1st Overall Danmark Rundt
- 1st Young rider classification
- 1st
- 3rd Overall Four Days of Dunkirk
- 4th Overall Tour des Fjords
- 4th Japan Cup
- 2015
- 1st Young rider classification Dubai Tour
- 2016
- 1st
Overall Danmark Rundt
- 1st Stage 3
- National Road Championships
- 2nd Road race
- 2nd Time trial
- 2nd Amstel Gold Race
- 2017
- 2nd Overall Danmark Rundt
- 6th Overall BinckBank Tour
- 6th E3 Harelbeke
- 2018
- 1st Amstel Gold Race
- 1st Omloop Het Nieuwsblad
- 2nd Bretagne Classic
- 4th Tour of Flanders
- 7th Road race, UCI Road World Championships
- 8th Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal
- 9th Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec
- 2019
- 4th Bretagne Classic
- 5th Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal
- 6th Road race, UCI Road World Championships
- 6th Chrono des Nations
- 10th Overall BinckBank Tour
- 2021
- 1st Coppa Sabatini
- 1st Giro della Toscana
- 3rd
Road race, UCI Road World Championships - 4th Road race, National Road Championships
Grand Tour general classification results timeline[]
| Grand Tour | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Giro d'Italia
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Has not contested during his career | |||||||
 Tour de France
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— | DNF | 77 | 61 | 44 | 75 | 73 | 53 |
 Vuelta a España
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128 | — | — | — | — | — | 33 | — |
Classics results timeline[]
| Monument | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Milan–San Remo | — | — | — | 35 | 97 | — | 99 | 52 |
| Tour of Flanders | — | — | — | 11 | 4 | 102 | 21 | DNF |
| Paris–Roubaix | — | — | — | — | — | — | NH | DNF |
| Liège–Bastogne–Liège | DNF | DNF | 14 | — | 19 | DNF | DNF | 58 |
| Giro di Lombardia | — | — | — | — | — | 40 | — | |
| Classic | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 |
| Omloop Het Nieuwsblad | — | — | — | 30 | 1 | 45 | 21 | — |
| Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne | — | — | — | 54 | 89 | DNF | 44 | — |
| Strade Bianche | — | — | — | 36 | — | 45 | 30 | — |
| E3 Harelbeke | — | — | — | 6 | 14 | 39 | NH | — |
| Dwars door Vlaanderen | — | — | — | — | DNF | 29 | 45 | |
| Gent–Wevelgem | — | — | — | 33 | 26 | DNF | 93 | — |
| Amstel Gold Race | 123 | 22 | 2 | 35 | 1 | 53 | NH | 13 |
| La Flèche Wallonne | DNF | DNF | 96 | DNF | 50 | 100 | — | 46 |
| Bretagne Classic | — | 45 | 16 | 33 | 2 | 4 | — | 22 |
| Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec | — | 125 | 99 | — | 9 | 19 | NH | |
| Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal | — | 33 | 23 | — | 8 | 5 | ||
| — | Did not compete |
|---|---|
| DNF | Did not finish |
| NH | Not held |
References[]
- ^ "Michael Valgren Andersen " Tinkoff-Saxo". Procyclingstats.com. Retrieved 3 June 2014.
- ^ "Michael Valgren og Jesper Hansen skifter til Astana" (in Danish). Danmarks Radio. 1 August 2016. Retrieved 1 August 2016.
- ^ "Dimension Data finalise 2019 roster". Cyclingnews.com. Immediate Media Company. 22 November 2018. Retrieved 4 January 2019.
- ^ "NTT Pro Cycling Team". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 3 January 2020. Retrieved 3 January 2020.
- ^ "EF Education - Nippo". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 1 January 2021. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
- ^ "Uitslag – Résultat – Result" (PDF). KBWB-RVLB.com. Royal Belgian Cycling League. 24 February 2018. Retrieved 24 February 2018.
- ^ "Michael Valgren takes impressive victory at Amstel Gold Race 2018". Cycling Weekly. Retrieved 15 April 2018.
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 31 March 2015. Retrieved 17 March 2015.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ "Valgren: Dimension Data will shoot with one missile, hopefully that will be me". cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 19 February 2019.
- ^ Benson, Daniel (13 November 2020). "Michael Valgren signs for EF Pro Cycling". Cyclingnews.com. Future plc. Retrieved 13 November 2020.
External links[]
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Michael Valgren. |
- Michael Valgren at ProCyclingStats
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- Living people
- Danish male cyclists
- Danmark Rundt winners
- People from Thisted Municipality
- Olympic cyclists of Denmark
- Cyclists at the 2020 Summer Olympics