Magnus Bäckstedt

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**Magnus Bäckstedt**
Personal information
Full name	Magnus Bäckstedt
Nickname	Magnus Maximus
Date of birth	January 30, 1975 (age 32)
Country	Sweden
Height	1.93 m
Weight	94 kg
Team information
Current team	Liquigas
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Rider type	Classics specialist
Professional team(s)
1996 1997 1998 1999-2001 2002-2003 2004 2005-present	Collstrop Palmans GAN Crédit Agricole Team Fakta Alessio-Bianchi Liquigas
Major wins
Paris-Roubaix (2004) Tour de France, 1 stage

Infobox last updated on:
February 8, 2007

Magnus Bäckstedt (born January 30, 1975 in Linköping, Östergötland) is a Swedish professional road bicycle racer for UCI ProTour team Liquigas. His greatest achievement was winning the Paris-Roubaix in 2004. Since Bäckstedt stands at 193cms tall and weighs in at 94kgs, he is one of the biggest riders in professional cycling, and has earnt the nickname 'Big Magnus'.

Bäckstedt started his professional career in 1996 riding for Collstrop before moving to the Palmans team in 1997. It was in 1998 when, having switched to GAN, Bäckstedt made his breakthrough. He secured a seventh placing in Paris-Roubaix and later that year followed up on the success with victory on 19th stage of the 1998 Tour de France between Chaux-de-Fonds and Autun. GAN was renamed Crédit Agricole from the 1999 season and Bäckstedt would ride in the team until 2001 without re-creating the great results of 1998.

In 2002 and 2003 he rode for Team Fakta where he was the strongest rider in the 2003 season. When Team Fakta closed down he went to Alessio-Bianchi where he finally saw major success return with the win of the 2004 Paris-Roubaix. In 2005 he moved to Liquigas-Bianchi, and on the 7th stage of the 2005 Tour de France, from Lunéville to Karlsruhe, he was second.

[edit] Palmarès

2005

Tour de France - 2nd, stage 7

2004

Paris-Roubaix
Gent-Wevelgem - 2nd place
CSC Classic - 2nd place

2003

Sweden National Time Trial Champion
Giro d'Italia - Intergiro Competition Winner
Sweden National Championships - 2nd place
Nokere-Koerse - 2^nd place
GP d'Ouverture la Marseillaise - 2nd place

2002

Sweden National Champion
GP Fayt le Franc

2000

Sweden National Championships - 2nd place

1998

Tour de France - Stage 19 winner
Tour of Sweden - 1 stage
Four days of Dunkirk - Sprints Competition winner
Postgiro - - 2nd overall; Stage 4B winner

1997

GP D'Isbergues

1997

Boland Bank Tour - 1st overall; 2 stage wins
GP D'Isbergues - 2nd place

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Riders on Liquigas
Michael Albasini \| Magnus Bäckstedt \| Manuel Beltrán \| Leonardo Bertagnolli \| Patrick Calcagni \| Eros Capecchi \| Kjell Carlström \| Dario Cataldo \| Francesco Chicchi \| Mauro Da Dalto \| Danilo di Luca \| Francesco Failli \| Antonio Murilo Fisher \| Enrico Gasparotto \| Roman Kreuziger \| Aleksandr Kuschynski \| Vladimir Miholjevic \| Matej Mugerli \| Vincenzo Nibali \| Andrea Noè \| Luca Paolini \| Franco Pellizotti \| Roberto Petito \| Filippo Pozzato \| Manuel Quinziato \| Alessandro Spezialetti \| Guido Trenti \| Alessandro Vanotti \| Charlie Wegelius \| Frederik Willems
Manager
Roberto Amadio