Michał Kwiatkowski
.JPG) Kwiatkowski at the 2015 Grand Prix de Fourmies | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Michał Kwiatkowski | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nickname | Flowerman, Kwiatek,[1] Kwiato, Flower Power, Kwiatpolski | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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2 June 1990 Działyń, Poland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.76 m (5 ft 9 1⁄2 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 68 kg (150 lb; 10.7 st) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Current team | Team Sky | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Discipline | Road | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Rider | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rider type | All-rounder | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 2009 | MG Kvis – Norda Pacific | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2010 | Caja Rural | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2011 | Team RadioShack | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2012–2015 | Omega Pharma–Quick-Step[2] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2016– | Team Sky | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Michał Kwiatkowski (Polish pronunciation: [ˈmixaw kfjatˈkɔfski], born 2 June 1990) is a Polish professional road bicycle racer for UCI ProTeam Team Sky.[3] Kwiatkowski is seen as a strong all rounder, with good sprinting, time-trialling and climbing abilities allowing him to win both stage races and one day classics. His talent was shown in early career winning the World Junior Time Trial. In 2014, Kwiatkowski became the world champion of elite men's road race at the age of 24. He was also a member in the Omega Pharma-Quick-Step World Team Time Trial winning team in 2013.
Career
Early career
Kwiatkowski is a double European champion (road race 2007, time trial 2008). In 2009 he became national road champion in the under-23 category. He also won a stage of the Tour de Slovaquie. He turned professional in 2010 with Caja Rural and in 2011 joined Team RadioShack, and placed third overall in the Driedaagse van West-Vlaanderen, the Three Days of De Panne and the Tour du Poitou-Charentes.
Omega Pharma-Quick Step (2012–2015)
Kwiatkowski moved to Omega Pharma–Quick-Step for the 2012 season. He impressed in his first year with the team, winning the prologue of Driedaagse van West-Vlaanderen. He also finished second overall in his home race, the Tour de Pologne, and eighth overall in the Eneco Tour.
2013
Kwiatkowski began the 2013 season in excellent form, placing second overall in the Volta ao Algarve. He then finished fourth overall in Tirreno-Adriatico, and won the young rider classification, after proving one of the strongest climber in the race. He finished fourth at the summit finish of Prati di Tivo to take the overall race lead from team-mate Mark Cavendish, before surrendering it the next day. Kwiatkowski then rode a strong classics campaign, placing fourth in the Amstel Gold Race and fifth in La Flèche Wallonne. In June, he won his senior National Road Race Championships for the first time.
Kwiatkowski's excellent form saw him selected to ride the Tour de France. He wore the white jersey – of young rider classification leader – in the first week after coming third on Stage 2 and fourth on Stage 3, both reduced bunch sprints. On Stage 7 he came in fourth again. On Stage 9 (a high mountain stage) he reached the podium once again. With a strong ITT he was able to regain the white jersey of the young rider classification on Stage 11, but lost the lead shortly after to Nairo Quintana.[4] Even though he lost the white jersey, he still managed to finish 11th in his Tour debut.[5]
2014
In 2014, Kwiatkowski won the Italian Classic Strade Bianche. He followed a strong attack from Peter Sagan with 20 kilometers to go and the pair cooperated well until Kwiatkowski dropped Sagan on the final climb to Siena.[6] He placed on the third step of the podium in the Liège–Bastogne–Liège as well as in La Flèche Wallonne and fifth in Amstel Gold Race.
In September, he grabbed the leader's jersey of the Tour of Britain by winning the fourth Stage in a select group sprint of 6 riders.[7] Overall he placed second in the general classification and first in the points classification.[8]
Later that same month he became the first Polish cyclist to win the UCI Road Race World Championship. Kwiatkowski made a solo attack about seven km from the finish line on a downhill section. Despite a late chase, he was able to hold the lead and coast across the finish line, winning the rainbow jersey.[9] After the race, Kwiatkowski posted his winning ride on Strava, which helped determine his statistics for the event. He climbed 5 106 meters and burned 6 338 kilocalories during the course of 6:29:45,[10] producing an average power of 240 watts with an average heartbeat of 148 beats per minute.[11] He rode his first race in the rainbow jersey at Il Lombardia and finished 77th.[12]
2015
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Being reigning world champion, Kwiatkowski tended to start the 2015 year with a less aggressive approach than 2014 for the bigger race later on.[13] He used Volta ao Algarve and Paris–Nice as warm up races to prepare for the classics campaign, finishing second overall in both events. In April, Kwiatkowski earned a prestigious victory at the Amstel Gold Race. After the last climb of the Cauberg, he had to work to join a small group led by Philippe Gilbert. Before the finish line, a regrouping of about fifteen riders formed and Kwiatkowski outsprinted them to add the Dutch classic to his palmares.[14]
He abandoned the 2015 Tour de France during Stage 17.[15]
On 27 September 2015, Team Sky announced the signing of Kwiatkowski for the 2016 season.[16]
Team Sky (2016-)
2016
On 25 March 2016, Kwiatkowski won his first cobbled classic, E3 Harelbeke, by outsprinting Peter Sagan after the pair broke away from an elite group with 30km remaining.[17]
Palmares
- 2007
- 1st
European Junior Road Race Championships - 2nd European Junior Time Trial Championships
- 2008
- 1st European Junior Time Trial Championships
- 1st
World Junior Time Trial Championships - 3rd European Junior Track Championships – Points Race
- 2009
- 1st
National U23 Road Race Championships - 1st Stage 2 Tour de Slovaquie
- 4th Memorial Henryka Lasaka
- 4th Gran Premio della Liberazione
- 7th Giro del Mendrisiotto
- 10th Puchar Uzdrowisk Karpackich
- 2010
- 4th Overall Szlakiem Grodów Piastowskich
- 7th Overall Volta ao Alentejo
- 2011
- 3rd Overall Driedaagse van West-Vlaanderen
- 3rd Overall Three Days of De Panne
- 3rd Overall Tour du Poitou-Charentes
- 6th Grand Prix de Wallonie
- 2012
- 1st Prologue Driedaagse van West-Vlaanderen
- 2nd Overall Tour de Pologne
- 8th Overall Eneco Tour
- 2013
- 1st
World Team Time Trial Championships - 1st National Road Race Championships
- 2nd National Time Trial Championships
- 2nd Overall Volta ao Algarve
- 4th Overall Tirreno–Adriatico
- 1st
Young rider classification - 1st Stage 1 (TTT)
- 1st
- 4th Amstel Gold Race
- 5th La Flèche Wallonne
- 5th Grand Prix de Wallonie
- 11th Overall Tour de France
- Held after Stages 2–7, 11–14
- Held
- 2014
- 1st World Road Race Championships
- 1st National Time Trial Championships
- 1st
Overall Volta ao Algarve
- 1st Stages 2 & 3 (ITT)
- 1st Trofeo Serra de Tramuntana
- 1st Strade Bianche
- 1st Prologue (ITT) Tour de Romandie
- 1st Stage 1 (TTT) Tirreno–Adriatico
- 2nd Overall Tour of the Basque Country
- 1st Points classification
- 1st
- 2nd Overall Tour of Britain
- 1st
Points classification - 1st Stage 4
- 1st
- 3rd
World Team Time Trial Championships - 3rd La Flèche Wallonne
- 3rd Liège–Bastogne–Liège
- 5th Amstel Gold Race
- 7th Trofeo Ses Salines
- Tour de France
- Held after Stages 8–9
- Held
- 2015
- 1st Amstel Gold Race
- 2nd
World Team Time Trial Championships - 2nd Overall Paris–Nice
- 1st Young rider classification
- 1st Prologue (ITT)
- 1st
- 2nd Overall Volta ao Algarve
- 4th Dwars door Vlaanderen
- 8th World Road Race Championships
- 8th Overall Tour of the Basque Country
- Tour de France
Combativity award Stages 2 & 12
- 2016
- 1st E3 Harelbeke
- 2nd Trofeo Pollenca-Port de Andratx
- 2nd Trofeo Serra de Tramuntana
- 8th Overall Tirreno–Adriatico
Grand Tour results timeline
| Grand Tour | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 |
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 Giro d'Italia |
136 | — | — | — |
| Points classification | 74 | — | — | — |
| Youth classification | 37 | — | — | — |
| Tour de France |
— | 11 | 28 | WD |
| Points classification | — | 8 | 32 | — |
| Mountains classification | — | — | 26 | — |
| Youth classification | — | 3 | 3 | — |
 Vuelta a España |
— | — | — | |
| Points classification | — | — | — | |
| Youth classification | — | — | — | |
WD = Withdrew; In Progress = IP
Classics results timeline
| Year | Milan–San Remo | E3 Harelbeke | Gent–Wevelgem | Tour of Flanders | Paris–Roubaix | Amstel Gold Race | La Flèche Wallonne | Liège–Bastogne–Liège | Clásica de San Sebastián | Paris–Tours | Giro di Lombardia | Road World Championships |
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| 2011 | – | – | 75th | – | – | – | – | – | – | 82nd | DNF | 31st |
| 2012 | – | – | – | – | – | DNF | DNF | DNF | – | – | – | – |
| 2013 | DNF | 82nd | – | 40th | – | 4th | 5th | 92nd | – | – | DNF | DNF |
| 2014 | DNF | – | – | – | – | 5th | 3rd | 3rd | – | – | 77th | 1st |
| 2015 | 67th | – | – | – | – | 1st | 33rd | 21st | – | – | 54th | 8th |
| 2016 | 40th | 1st | - | 27th | - | DNF | - |
DNF = Did not finish; – = Did not compete
National championships timeline
| Year | Road race | Time trial |
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| 2011 | – | 21st |
| 2012 | 16th | 2nd |
| 2013 | |
2nd |
| 2014 | 21st | |
| 2015 | 57th | – |
Personal awards
- International Flandrien of the Year: 2014[18]
- Gold Cross of Merit (Krzyż Zasługi): 2014[19]
References
- ↑ "Michal Kwiatkowski". Omega Pharma–Quick-Step. Decolef. Retrieved 10 July 2013.
- ↑ Philippon, Alexandre (5 August 2011). "Omega Pharma – Quick Step recrute Golas" [Omega Pharma – Quick Step recruits Golas]. Velochrono.fr (in French) (Velochrono). Retrieved 4 January 2012.
Ce vendredi, la future équipe Omega Pharma – Quick Step a officialisé la venue de Michal Kwiatkowski pour 2012, mais aussi celle d’un autre Polonais, Michal Golas. [This Friday, the future Omega Pharma – Quick Step has formalized the arrival of Michal Kwiatkowski for 2012, but also that of another Pole, Michal Golas]
- ↑ "Omega Pharma-Team Sky (SKY) – BEL". UCI World Tour. Union Cycliste Internationale. Retrieved 3 January 2014.
- ↑ Peter Cossins (13 July 2013). "Froome crowned king of Mont Ventoux". Cyclingnews.com (Future plc). Retrieved 16 October 2013.
- ↑ "Tour de France 2013: final race details and standings". The Guardian (Telegraph Media Group Limited 2014). 21 July 2013. Retrieved 29 September 2014.
- ↑ "Michal Kwiatkowski takes Strade Bianche from Peter Sagan". VeloNews (Competitor Group, Inc.). 8 March 2014. Retrieved 31 August 2014.
- ↑ Barry Ryan (10 September 2014). "Kwiatkowski wins stage 4 in Tour of Britain". Cyclingnews.com (Future plc). Retrieved 11 September 2014.
- ↑ "Kittel wins final Tour of Britain stage". Cyclingnews.com (Future plc). 14 September 2014. Retrieved 28 September 2014.
- ↑ "World Championships: Michal Kwiatkowski wins road race gold". Cyclingnews.com (Future plc). 28 September 2014. Retrieved 28 September 2014.
- ↑ "Worlds shorts: Kwiatkowski's ride on Strava, Cancellara, and Lefevere". Cyclingnews.com (Future plc). 29 September 2014. Retrieved 29 September 2014.
- ↑ "Power meter analysis: Kwiatkowski’s World Champs win". Cycling Weekly (IPC Media Sports & Leisure network). 6 October 2014. Retrieved 6 October 2014.
- ↑ "Results: 2014 Il Lombardia". VeloNews (Competitor Group, Inc.). 5 October 2014. Retrieved 6 October 2014.
- ↑ "Kwiatkowski sets sights on Tour de France". Cyclingquotes. 10 January 2015.
- ↑ "Kwiatkowski sprints to first victory in rainbow jersey in Amstel Gold Race". VeloNews (Competitor Group, Inc.). 19 April 2015. Retrieved 19 April 2015.
- ↑ Clarke, Stuart (23 July 2015). ""It was hard to abandon Tour de France in rainbow stripes," says Kwiatkowski". Cycling Weekly (Time Inc. UK). Retrieved 24 July 2015.
- ↑ http://www.skysports.com/cycling/news/12040/10007401/michal-kwiatkowski-signs-for-team-sky-from-etixx-quick-step
- ↑ http://www.cyclingnews.com/races/e3-harelbeke-2016/results/
- ↑ "Kwiatkowski Won International Flandrien Award 2014". Etixx–Quick-Step (Etixx–Quick-Step). 16 October 2014. Retrieved 16 October 2014.
- ↑ "To podziękowanie nie tylko od prezydenta, ale od całej Polski.". 20 October 2014. Retrieved 20 October 2014.
External links
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- Michał Kwiatkowski profile at Cycling Quotient
- Michał Kwiatkowski profile at ProCyclingStats
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