Magnus Bäckstedt
Bäckstedt in 2011
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| Personal information | |
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| Full name | Magnus Bäckstedt |
| Nickname | Magnus Maximus Big Maggy |
| Born |
30 January 1975 Linköping, Sweden |
| Height | 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in) |
| Weight | 94 kg (207 lb; 14.8 st) |
| Team information | |
| Current team | Team UK Youth |
| Discipline | Road |
| Role | Rider |
| Rider type | Classics specialist |
| Professional team(s) | |
| 1996–1997 | Collstrop-Palmans |
| 1998–2001 | GAN |
| 2002–2003 | Team Fakta |
| 2004 | Alessio–Bianchi |
| 2005–2007 | Liquigas–Bianchi |
| 2008–2009 | Slipstream–Chipotle |
| 2009 | MagnusMaximusCoffee.com |
| 2012 | Team UK Youth |
| 2013 | MG-Maxifuel |
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Magnus Bäckstedt (born 30 January 1975) is a former Swedish professional road bicycle racer. His most notable achievement in cycling is winning Paris–Roubaix in 2004.
Born in Linköping, Östergötland, Sweden, Bäckstedt began as a skier, selected for the national team when he was 14.
Bäckstedt began his professional career in 1996, riding for Collstrop before moving to Palmans in 1997. In 1998, having switched to GAN, Bäckstedt came seventh in 1998 Paris–Roubaix and won the 19th stage of the 1998 Tour de France between La Chaux-de-Fonds and Autun.
In 2002 and 2003 he rode for Team Fakta where he was the strongest rider in 2003. When Fakta closed he went to Alessio–Bianchi, where he won the 2004 Paris–Roubaix. The two favourites, Peter van Petegem and Johan Museeuw dropped out after crashes, leaving Bäckstedt to sprint on the track at Roubaix against two others. The manager of Crédit Agricole, Roger Legeay, had predicted that Bäckstedt would one day win the race. He said: "He's not a flahute. He's not especially the fastest, but after 260km on the cobbles, it's often the rider who feels freshest who wins."
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