Thomas Lövkvist

Thomas Löfkvist

Löfkvist at the 2009 Eneco Tour prologue
Personal information
Full name	Karl Thomas Henry Löfkvist
Nickname	Gotland
Born	(1984-04-04) 4 April 1984 (age 33) Visby, Sweden
Height	1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)
Weight	70 kg (150 lb; 11 st)
Team information
Current team	Retired
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Rider type	All-rounder
Professional team(s)
2004–2007	FDJeux.com
2008–2009	Team High Road
2010–2012	Team Sky
2013–2014	IAM Cycling
Major wins
Grand Tours Giro d'Italia 1 TTT stage Stage races Circuit des Ardennes (2003) Circuit de la Sarthe (2004) Deutschland Tour Points classification (2008) Young riders classification (2008) Tirreno–Adriatico Young riders classification (2009) Tour Méditerranéen (2013) One-day races and Classics Monte Paschi Eroica (2009) National Road Race Championships (2006) National Time Trial Championships (2004)

Grand Tours

Stage races

One-day races and Classics

Thomas Löfkvist (born 4 April 1984) is a Swedish former professional road bicycle racer who last rode for the UCI Professional Continental team IAM Cycling. Since 2015 Thomas Löfkvist is general manager of Swedish professional cycling team Team Tre Berg–PostNord. He became the youngest Swedish professional road bicycle racer when he started his professional bicycling career in FDJeux.com at the age of 19 in 2004. Lövkvist is a good time trialist and has recently improved his climbing abilities, winning the Monte Paschi Eroica in 2009 with a powerful attack during the steep final kilometer ascent. He has previously used, both within and outside of the cyling world, the surname spelling 'Lövkvist'. Beginning with the cycling season of 2010 he is using his legal surname Löfkvist throughout.

As a junior, Lövkvist was the European mountain bike champion. Aged 19 he won the Individual Time Trial and the Overall Classification of the prestigious Circuit des Ardennes. Lövkvist also finished sixth and wore the leader's jersey in the 2003 Tour de l'Avenir. Following this results he turned professional for the French team FDJeux.com in 2004.

Lövkvist's first professional season turned out to be a very successful one. The week after turning 20 he won the last stage of Circuit de la Sarthe with a 171 km breakaway, covering 150 alone after getting rid of Christophe Moreau. The stage win also gave him the Overall Classification, drawing comparisons with Tour de France winners Bernard Hinault and Greg LeMond, who also won the race at the age of 20. Lövkvist finished 10 seconds ahead of Franck Bouyer, who four days later earned his revenge by beating Lövkvist in the French semi-classic Paris–Camembert. Later in the season he also won the Swedish National time trial championships and participated in the 2004 Summer Olympics. In the 2004 Tour de l'Avenir he won the last stage and finished second overall on the same time of the winner, Sylvain Calzati.