Kjell Carlström
Finnish road bicycle racer
- Rider (retired)
- Directeur sportif
- National Road Race Championships (2000, 2004, 2011)
Kjell Carlström (born 18 October 1976) is a Finnish former professional road racing cyclist, who competed as a professional between 2002 and 2011. He won the Finnish national road race title in 2000, 2004 and 2011.[1]
He raced in the Tour de France in 2005, 2006 and 2007. His best performance in the Tour de France was a second place stage finish on stage 8 in the 2006 race. In December 2011 he announced his retirement after his contract with Team Sky was not renewed and he was unable to find a new team.[2]
Starting in 2013, he became one of the directeurs sportifs at IAM Cycling. After the team disbanded, he moved to a similar position at Israel–Premier Tech, where he presently works as the team's general manager.[3]
Major results
- 2003
- 1st Stage 7 Tour of Queensland
- 2004
- 1st
Road race, National Road Championships - 1st Overall UNIQA Classic
- 1st Stage 2
- 2005
- 1st Stage 3 UNIQA Classic
- 2007
- 2nd Road race, National Road Championships
- 2008
- 1st Stage 3 Paris–Nice
- 2nd Road race, National Road Championships
- 3rd Klasika Primavera
- 2009
- 1st Road race, National Road Championships
- 2010
- 2nd Road race, National Road Championships
- 2011
- 1st Road race, National Road Championships
References
- ^ "Kjell Carlström". Cycling Archives. Retrieved 5 May 2014.
- ^ "Carlström facing retirement after 10 years". Cycling News. Future Publishing Limited. 29 December 2011. Retrieved 6 January 2012.
- ^ "Israel Start-Up Nation". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 1 January 2021. Retrieved 3 January 2021.
External links
- Profile at Team Sky official website
- Profile at Liquigas official website
- Kjell Carlström at Cycling Archives
- Kjell Carlström at ProCyclingStats
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- Antti Raita (1912–1913)
- Juho Jaakonaho (1914–1915)
- Juho Jaakonaho (1921)
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- Thor Porko (1930)
- Raul Hellberg (1931)
- Thor Porko (1936)
- Paul Backman (1946)
- Torvald Högström (1951)
- Nils Henriksson (1952)
- Anders Ruben Forsblom (1953–1954)
- Paul Nyman (1955–1956)
- Ole Wackström (1957)
- Paul Nyman (1958)
- Unto Hautalahti (1960–1961)
- Antero Lumme (1962–1965)
- Unto Hautalahti (1966)
- Kalevi Eskelinen (1969)
- Mauno Uusivirta (1970)
- Tapani Vuorenhela (1971)
- Harry Hannus (1972–1974)
- Kari Puisto (1975–1976)
- Harry Hannus (1978–1979)
- Patrick Wackström (1980–1981)
- Harry Hannus (1982)
- Kari Myyryläinen (1983)
- Harry Hannus (1984)
- Kari Myyryläinen (1985–1986)
- Jari Lähde (1988)
- Kimmo Karhu (1989)
- Esa Skyttä (1995)
- Joona Laukka (1996)
- Miika Hietanen (1997)
- Esa Skyttä (1998)
- Miika Hietanen (1999)
- Kjell Carlström (2000)
- Christian Selin (2001)
- Jukka Heinikainen (2002)
- Jussi Veikkanen (2003)
- Kjell Carlström (2004)
- Jussi Veikkanen (2005–2006)
- Matti Pajari (2007)
- Jussi Veikkanen (2008)
- Toni Liias (2009)
- Jussi Veikkanen (2010)
- Kjell Carlström (2011)
- Jarkko Niemi (2012)
- Jussi Veikkanen (2013–2014)
- Samuel Pökälä (2015)
- Jesse Kaislavuo (2016)
- Matti Manninen (2017)
- Anders Bäckman (2018)
- Arto Vainionpää (2019)
- Antti-Jussi Juntunen (2020)
- Joonas Henttala (2021)
- Anders Bäckman (2022)
- Antti-Jussi Juntunen (2023)
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