Fredrik Kessiakoff
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| Full name | Fredrik Carl Wilhelm Kessiakoff | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 17 May 1980 Nacka, Sweden | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 62 kg (137 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Current team | Astana Qazaqstan Team | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Discipline | Road Mountain biking (former) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Rider | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| 2000–2002 | Crescent | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 2004 | Siemens-Cannondale | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 2007 | Cannondale-Vredestein | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 2008 | Full Dynamix-IT | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 2009 | Fuji–Servetto | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 2010 | Garmin–Transitions | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 2011–2014 | Astana | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Grand Tours
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Fredrik Carl Wilhelm Kessiakoff (born 17 May 1980) is a Swedish former professional road bicycle racer.[1] Kessiakoff turned to road racing in 2009, having had a successful career as a professional mountain biker for many years, winning the Swedish national championship 4 times, and finishing third at the 2006 World Mountain biking championships. He twice represented Sweden at the Olympics. Kessiakoff retired in 2014.[2]
Career achievements
[edit]Major results
[edit]Mountain biking
- 2002
- 1st Swedish Championships U23
- 1st Overall Swedish Cup
- 2003
- 2nd Swedish Championships
- 2004
- 1st Swedish Championships
- 2005
- 1st World Cup Marathon, Falun, Sweden
- 1st Sunshine Cup, Cyprus
- 4th World Championships
- 2nd Absa Cape Epic (with Christoph Sauser)
- 2006
- 1st Swedish Championships
- 1st Nordic Championships
- 1st Overall Bundesliga, Germany
- 1st Int Italia, Nalles, Italy
- 3rd Team Relay European Championships
- 3rd World Championships
- 4th European Championships
- 2007
- 1st World Cup Final
- 1st Swedish Championships
- 3rd European Championships
- 4th World Championships
- 2008
- 1st Sunshine Race, Cyprus
- 1st Swedish Championships
- 5th World Championships
- 7th European Championships
Road racing
- 2009
- 4th Overall Tour de Langkawi
- 6th GP Lugano
- 6th Giro dell'Emilia
- 9th Overall Tour de Romandie
- 2011
- 1st Overall Tour of Austria
- 1st Stage 2
- 2012
- 1st Stage 11 (ITT) Vuelta a España
- 1st Stage 7 (ITT) Tour de Suisse
- Tour de France
- Held
King of the Mountains jersey from stage 8 to 10 and stage 12 to 16.
- Held
- 2nd Giro dell'Emilia
- 3rd Milano–Torino
- 5th UCI World Time Trial Championship
- 9th Overall Tour du Haut-Var
- 10th Giro di Lombardia
Grand Tour general classification results timeline
[edit]| Grand Tour | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 |
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 Giro d'Italia
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50 | — | — | — | 90 | — |
 Tour de France
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— | — | — | 40 | DNF | — |
 Vuelta a España
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72 | — | 34 | 61 | — | — |
| — | Did not compete |
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| DNF | Did not finish |
References
[edit]- ^ Gregor Brown (1 September 2009). "Garmin announces Hunter and Van Summeren in 2010 team". Cycling News. Retrieved 1 September 2009.
- ^ "Kessiakoff announces retirement from cycling". 9 December 2014.
External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Fredrik Kessiakoff.
- Profile at Astana official website
- Fredrik Kessiakoff at Cycling Archives (archived)
- Official website
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Categories:
- 1980 births
- Living people
- Swedish male cyclists
- People from Nacka Municipality
- Marathon mountain bikers
- Cross-country mountain bikers
- Tour de Suisse stage winners
- Swedish Vuelta a España stage winners
- Olympic cyclists for Sweden
- Cyclists at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Cyclists at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Cape Epic cyclists
- Sportspeople from Stockholm County
- 21st-century Swedish sportsmen