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Alex Nicki Rasmussen (born 9 June 1984) is a Danish former professional racing cyclist, who rode professionally between 2009 and 2016 for the , , , , and teams. Primarily specialising in
track cycling Track cycling is a bicycle racing sport usually held on specially built banked tracks or velodromes using purpose-designed track bicycles. History Track cycling has been around since at least 1870. When track cycling was in its infancy, it wa ...
, Rasmussen was also proficient in road racing, winning the
Danish National Road Race Championships The Danish National Road Race Championships were created in 1987. Men U23 Women See also *Danish National Time Trial Championships *National Road Cycling Championships National road cycling championships are held annually by host natio ...
in 2007.


Career

He was the 2005 Scratch World Champion. Together with Michael Mørkøv, Rasmussen won the Danish Madison Championships six times in a row, and as such, are nicknamed the 'Par nummer syv' (Pair number seven). On 15 September 2011, his contract with was terminated for missing a doping control, at which time the team was made aware of two previous controls he had missed before he joined them. Rasmussen was also removed from the Danish UCI Championships team, and faced criminal prosecution. However, on 17 November, Rasmussen was cleared of the charges due to a procedural error on the part of the UCI. His previously signed contract with for the 2012 season, nullified upon news of the whereabouts violations, was again honored. The UCI appealed this decision to the
Court of Arbitration for Sport The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS; french: Tribunal arbitral du sport, ''TAS'') is an international body established in 1984 to settle disputes related to sport through arbitration. Its headquarters are in Lausanne, Switzerland and its co ...
in December 2011, with the original decision being overturned on 4 July 2012. As a result, Rasmussen was given a backdated 18-month ban, meaning that he would be suspended until April 2013. His contract with the renamed squad was also terminated. On 19 March 2013, re-signed Rasmussen for the remainder of the 2013 season. Rasmussen left following the 2013 season, and subsequently announced plans to re-enter
track cycling Track cycling is a bicycle racing sport usually held on specially built banked tracks or velodromes using purpose-designed track bicycles. History Track cycling has been around since at least 1870. When track cycling was in its infancy, it wa ...
. Rasmussen joined for the 2014 season.


Major results


Road

;2006 : National Under-23 Championships ::1st Time trial ::3rd Road race : 1st Overall
Tour de Berlin The Tour de Berlin was a road bicycle race held annually between 1953 and 2016 in Germany. From 2007 to its demise, the race was organised as a 2.2U event on the UCI Europe Tour The UCI Continental Circuits are a series of road bicycle racing com ...
::1st Stages 2 & 3 (ITT) : 3rd GP Herning : 9th Time trial, UEC European Under-23 Championships ;2007 : 1st Road race, National Championships : 2nd
Colliers Classic Colliers Classic (also known as ''Grand Prix Aarhus'') is a semi classic European bicycle race held in Aarhus, Denmark. Since 2005, the race has been organised as a 1.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour The UCI Continental Circuits are a series of r ...
: 5th Overall
Tour de Bretagne Tour de Bretagne Cycliste, also known as the Tour de Bretagne trophée des granitiers and formerly known as Ruban Granitier Breton, is an annual early season professional cycling stage race held in late April and early May in Brittany, France. T ...
: 6th Overall
Boucles de la Mayenne The Boucles de la Mayenne is a road bicycle race held annually in the Mayenne department and Pays de la Loire region in France. It was first held in 1975 and from 2006 until 2019, it was organised as a 2.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour. The race b ...
::1st Points classification ;2008 :
Tour of Qinghai Lake The Tour of Qinghai Lake is an annual professional road bicycle racing stage race held in the Qinghai province of China since 2002, named after Qinghai Lake. The race is sanctioned by the International Cycling Union (UCI) as a 2.HC race as part of ...
::1st Points classification ::1st Prologue, Stages 1, 3 & 9 : 1st Stage 3
Ronde de l'Oise The Ronde de l'Oise is a cycling stage race held annually in the department of Oise in France. It was founded in 1954 and in 2007 became part of the UCI Europe Tour The UCI Continental Circuits are a series of road bicycle racing competitions whi ...
: 3rd
Rogaland GP Tour des Fjords (known as the Rogaland Grand Prix until 2012) was a road bicycle race held annually between 2008 and 2018 in the region of western Norway. The race merged with the Tour of Norway The Tour of Norway is a road bicycle race held an ...
: 4th Duo Normand (with
Jens-Erik Madsen Jens-Erik Madsen (born 30 March 1981) is a Danish former professional racing cyclist. Major results ;1999 : 1st Road race, National Junior Road Championships ;2000 : National Track Championships ::1st Team pursuit ::3rd Under-23 individual pu ...
) ;2009 : 2nd Time trial, National Championships : 4th Giro del Capo Challenge 4 : 4th Profronde van Fryslan ;2010 : 1st GP Herning :
Four Days of Dunkirk The Four Days of Dunkirk (french: Quatre Jours de Dunkerque) is road bicycle race around the Nord-Pas de Calais region of northern France. Despite the name of the race, since the addition of an individual time trial in 1963, the race has been h ...
::1st Stages 1 & 3 : 1st Stage 4 (ITT)
Vuelta a Andalucía The Vuelta a Andalucía (Tour of Andalusia) or Ruta del Sol (Route of the Sun) is a regional Spanish road bicycle race first held in 1925. Since 2005, it has been a 2.1 category race on the UCI Europe Tour. The race became a part of the new UCI P ...
: 2nd Time trial, National Championships : 10th Designa Grand Prix ;2011 : 1st
Philadelphia International Championship The Philadelphia International Championship was an annual bicycle race held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was described as "America's top international cycling classic, and one of the richest and most prestigious one day races outside of Euro ...
: 1st Stage 1 ( TTT) Giro d'Italia : 4th Time trial, National Championships ;2012 : 1st Stage 4 ( TTT) Giro d'Italia : 2nd
Grand Prix de Denain Grand Prix de Denain is a professional cycle road race held in Denain, France. For 10 years from 2005 the race was organized as a 1.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour The UCI Continental Circuits are a series of road bicycle racing competitions whi ...
;2013 : 1st Stage 1
Bayern–Rundfahrt The International Bayern Rundfahrt ( en, Tour of Bavaria) was a stage race cycling race held each year in Bavaria, Germany, between 1980 and 2015. The race was held as an amateur race between 1980 and 1988, and from 2005 to 2015, the race was orga ...
: 4th Time trial, National Championships ;2014 : Dookoła Mazowsza ::1st Stages 3 & 4 : 2nd
Skive–Løbet Skive Løbet is a professional single-day cycling race held annually in Denmark. It is part of the UCI Europe Tour The UCI Continental Circuits are a series of road bicycle racing competitions which were introduced in 2005 by the Union Cycliste I ...


Grand Tour general classification results timeline


Track

;2001 : National Championships ::1st Kilo ::1st Team pursuit : National Junior Championships ::1st Kilo ::1st Sprint ::1st Team pursuit ;2002 : 1st Kilo, National Championships : National Junior Championships ::1st Kilo ::1st Points race ::1st Sprint ::1st Team pursuit : 3rd Scratch, UCI World Junior Championships ;2003 : National Championships ::1st Kilo ::1st Team pursuit : 1st Individual pursuit, National Under-23 Championships : 3rd Scratch, UEC European Under-23 Championships ;2004 : UEC European Under-23 Championships ::1st Scratch ::2nd Madison (with Michael Berling) : National Championships ::1st Individual pursuit ::1st Kilo ::1st Madison (with Michael Berling) ::1st Team pursuit : 1st Individual pursuit, National Under-23 Championships ;2005 : 1st Scratch, UCI World Championships : UEC European Under-23 Championships ::1st Madison (with Michael Mørkøv) ::1st Scratch : National Championships ::1st Individual pursuit ::1st Kilo ::1st Madison (with Michael Berling) ::1st Points race ::1st Team pursuit : 1st Individual pursuit, National Under-23 Championships ;2006 : National Championships ::1st Individual pursuit ::1st Kilo ::1st Madison (with Michael Mørkøv) ::1st Team pursuit ;2007 : National Championships ::1st Individual pursuit ::1st Madison (with Michael Mørkøv) ::1st Points race ::1st Team pursuit : 1st
Six Days of Grenoble The Six Days of Grenoble (french: Six jours cyclistes de Grenoble) is a six-day track cycling race held annually in Grenoble lat, Gratianopolis , commune status = Prefecture and commune , image = Panorama grenoble.png ...
(with Michael Mørkøv) : 2nd
Six Days of Copenhagen The Six Days of Copenhagen is a six-day track cycling race held annually in Copenhagen, Denmark. The event was first held in 1934. The event is held at the Ballerup Super Arena Ballerup Super Arena (formerly Siemens Arena) is a multi-purpose i ...
(with Michael Mørkøv) : 3rd Team pursuit, UCI World Championships ;2008 : National Championships ::1st Individual pursuit ::1st Madison (with Michael Mørkøv) : 1st
Six Days of Grenoble The Six Days of Grenoble (french: Six jours cyclistes de Grenoble) is a six-day track cycling race held annually in Grenoble lat, Gratianopolis , commune status = Prefecture and commune , image = Panorama grenoble.png ...
(with Michael Mørkøv) : 2nd Team pursuit,
Summer Olympics The Summer Olympic Games (french: link=no, Jeux olympiques d'été), also known as the Games of the Olympiad, and often referred to as the Summer Olympics, is a major international multi-sport event normally held once every four years. The inau ...
: UCI World Championships ::2nd Team pursuit ::3rd
Madison Madison may refer to: People * Madison (name), a given name and a surname * James Madison (1751–1836), fourth president of the United States Place names * Madison, Wisconsin, the state capital of Wisconsin and the largest city known by this ...
: 2nd
Six Days of Copenhagen The Six Days of Copenhagen is a six-day track cycling race held annually in Copenhagen, Denmark. The event was first held in 1934. The event is held at the Ballerup Super Arena Ballerup Super Arena (formerly Siemens Arena) is a multi-purpose i ...
(with Michael Mørkøv) ;2009 : UCI World Championships ::1st Team pursuit ::1st
Madison Madison may refer to: People * Madison (name), a given name and a surname * James Madison (1751–1836), fourth president of the United States Place names * Madison, Wisconsin, the state capital of Wisconsin and the largest city known by this ...
(with Michael Mørkøv) : 1st Madison, National Championships (with Michael Mørkøv) : 1st
Six Days of Ghent The Six Days of Ghent ( nl, Zesdaagse Vlaanderen-Gent) is a six-day track cycling race held annually in Ghent, Belgium. It takes place in the Kuipke velodrome in Ghent's ''Citadelpark''. The 2006 event from 21 November to 26 November was marred ...
(with Michael Mørkøv) : 1st
Six Days of Copenhagen The Six Days of Copenhagen is a six-day track cycling race held annually in Copenhagen, Denmark. The event was first held in 1934. The event is held at the Ballerup Super Arena Ballerup Super Arena (formerly Siemens Arena) is a multi-purpose i ...
(with Michael Mørkøv) ;2010 : 1st Scratch, UCI World Championships : 1st Madison, National Championships (with Michael Mørkøv) : 1st
Six Days of Copenhagen The Six Days of Copenhagen is a six-day track cycling race held annually in Copenhagen, Denmark. The event was first held in 1934. The event is held at the Ballerup Super Arena Ballerup Super Arena (formerly Siemens Arena) is a multi-purpose i ...
(with Michael Mørkøv) : 3rd
Six Days of Ghent The Six Days of Ghent ( nl, Zesdaagse Vlaanderen-Gent) is a six-day track cycling race held annually in Ghent, Belgium. It takes place in the Kuipke velodrome in Ghent's ''Citadelpark''. The 2006 event from 21 November to 26 November was marred ...
(with Michael Mørkøv) : 3rd
Six Days of Rotterdam The Six Days of Rotterdam is a six-day track cycling race held annually in Rotterdam, the Netherlands at the Rotterdam Ahoy Rotterdam Ahoy (formerly known as Ahoy Rotterdam or simply as Ahoy) is a convention centre and multi-purpose indoor ar ...
(with Michael Mørkøv) ;2011 : 1st
Six Days of Copenhagen The Six Days of Copenhagen is a six-day track cycling race held annually in Copenhagen, Denmark. The event was first held in 1934. The event is held at the Ballerup Super Arena Ballerup Super Arena (formerly Siemens Arena) is a multi-purpose i ...
(with Michael Mørkøv) ;2012 : 2nd
Six Days of Copenhagen The Six Days of Copenhagen is a six-day track cycling race held annually in Copenhagen, Denmark. The event was first held in 1934. The event is held at the Ballerup Super Arena Ballerup Super Arena (formerly Siemens Arena) is a multi-purpose i ...
(with Michael Mørkøv) ;2014 : 2nd Team pursuit, UCI World Championships : 2nd
Six Days of Copenhagen The Six Days of Copenhagen is a six-day track cycling race held annually in Copenhagen, Denmark. The event was first held in 1934. The event is held at the Ballerup Super Arena Ballerup Super Arena (formerly Siemens Arena) is a multi-purpose i ...
(with Michael Mørkøv) : 3rd
Six Days of Rotterdam The Six Days of Rotterdam is a six-day track cycling race held annually in Rotterdam, the Netherlands at the Rotterdam Ahoy Rotterdam Ahoy (formerly known as Ahoy Rotterdam or simply as Ahoy) is a convention centre and multi-purpose indoor ar ...
(with Michael Mørkøv) ;2015 : 1st
Six Days of Copenhagen The Six Days of Copenhagen is a six-day track cycling race held annually in Copenhagen, Denmark. The event was first held in 1934. The event is held at the Ballerup Super Arena Ballerup Super Arena (formerly Siemens Arena) is a multi-purpose i ...
(with Michael Mørkøv) : 2nd
Six Days of Rotterdam The Six Days of Rotterdam is a six-day track cycling race held annually in Rotterdam, the Netherlands at the Rotterdam Ahoy Rotterdam Ahoy (formerly known as Ahoy Rotterdam or simply as Ahoy) is a convention centre and multi-purpose indoor ar ...
(with Michael Mørkøv) ;2016 : 1st
Six Days of Copenhagen The Six Days of Copenhagen is a six-day track cycling race held annually in Copenhagen, Denmark. The event was first held in 1934. The event is held at the Ballerup Super Arena Ballerup Super Arena (formerly Siemens Arena) is a multi-purpose i ...
(with
Jesper Mørkøv Jesper Mørkøv (born 11 March 1988) is a Danish male track and road cyclist, who last rode for UCI Continental team . He competed in the points race and madison events at the 2013 UCI Track Cycling World Championships. He is the brother of rac ...
)


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Cycling Base: Alex Rasmussen

Cycling Quotient: Alex Rasmussen
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Rasmussen, Alex Cyclists at the 2008 Summer Olympics Danish male cyclists Doping cases in cycling Danish sportspeople in doping cases Olympic cyclists for Denmark Olympic silver medalists for Denmark UCI Track Cycling World Champions (men) 1984 births Living people Olympic silver medalists in cycling Medalists at the 2008 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Odense Cyclists from the Region of Southern Denmark Danish track cyclists