László Bodrogi
Bodrogi during the time trials at the 2011 UCI Road World Championships
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| Full name | László Bodrogi | |||||||||||||||
| Born |
December 11, 1976 Budapest, Hungary |
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| Height | 1.87 m (6 ft 2 in) | |||||||||||||||
| Weight | 79 kg (174 lb) | |||||||||||||||
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| Current team | Team Novo Nordisk | |||||||||||||||
| Discipline | Road and track | |||||||||||||||
| Role | Rider | |||||||||||||||
| Rider type | Time-trialist | |||||||||||||||
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| 1991 | FTC | |||||||||||||||
| 1992 | BVSC-Intertraverz | |||||||||||||||
| 1993 | KSI | |||||||||||||||
| 1994 | Stollwerck-FTC | |||||||||||||||
| 1995–1996 | AC Bisontine | |||||||||||||||
| 1997–1998 | VC Vaux-en-Velin | |||||||||||||||
| 1999 | CCC Étupes | |||||||||||||||
| 1999 | Saint-Quentin-Oktos-MBK (stagiaire) | |||||||||||||||
| Professional team(s) | ||||||||||||||||
| 2000–2002 | Mapei–Quick-Step | |||||||||||||||
| 2003–2004 | Quick-Step–Davitamon | |||||||||||||||
| 2005–2008 | Crédit Agricole | |||||||||||||||
| 2009–2010 | Team Katusha | |||||||||||||||
| 2011–2012 | Team Type 1–Sanofi Aventis | |||||||||||||||
| Major wins | ||||||||||||||||
 National Road Race Champion (2003, 2004, 2006) National Time-Trial Champion (2002, 2006, 2007, 2008)Tour of Austria (2006) Tour de Luxembourg (2005) GP Eddy Merckx (2002) |
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László Bodrogi (born 11 December 1976 in Budapest, Hungary) is a French former professional road bicycle racer from Hungary, specializing in the individual time trial.
László was born in 1976 in Budapest, Hungary. His father, László Bodrogi, managed his career from his childhood.
In the nineties, Hungarian bicycle manufacturer Schwinn-Csepel (successor of Csepel) was his main sponsor. In turn, he was the main athlete of the company. Among other products, he tested and raced the Schwinn-Csepel magnesium alloy road frame. He competed in various Hungarian teams, including FTC (1991), BVSC-Intertraverz (1992), KSI (1993) and Stollwerck-FTC (1994).
In 1995, after his father got a job as a doctor in France, László settled down in France and started training in the AC Bisontine team. He quit his university studies to devote his life to his sports career. After a fruitful season in 1996, he was invited to VC Lyon (VC Vaux-en-Velin), the youth team of Festina. After Festina was shaken by the doping scandals of the Tour de France, Laszlo got little attention from the team. He moved on to CCC Étupes in 1999.
In 2000, he started his professional cycling career in Mapei–Quick-Step and won the bronze in the world championship. In 2007, he scored the best result of the Hungarian cycling history by winning the silver medal in the same discipline after Fabian Cancellara.
He raced in the Tour de France in 2005 and finished in 119th place. To date, he is the only Hungarian cyclist to participate in the Tour.
After gaining French citizenship in 2008, he rides for France now. Consequently, he resigned from participating in the Hungarian championship. Between 1997 and 2008, he won the national road champion title three and the individual time trial champion title ten times.
He suffered a leg injury at the Tour of Germany in 2008, resulting in an 8-month recovery period. After Credit Agricole ceased sponsoring its cycling team, László joined the Katusha team. In 2010, he started preparing for the world championship, although the riders are not qualified yet.
He lives with his family in Ney. He is married to a French woman, Catherine, and has two children.
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