Klaus Nielsen

Klaus Nielsen
	Nielsen competing in the 2008 Olympics
Personal information
Full name	Klaus Nielsen
Born	8 January 1980 (age 44); Køge, Denmark
Height	1.76 m (5 ft 9+1⁄2 in)
Weight	66 kg (146 lb)
Team information
Current team	Team ALB-Gold Mountainbike
Discipline	Mountain biking
Role	Rider
Rider type	Cross-country
Professional team
2006–	Team ALB-Gold Mountainbike

Klaus Nielsen (born 8 January 1980 in Køge) is a Danish professional mountain biker.^[1] He has won four Danish national championship titles in both men's cross-country and marathon races, and also represented his nation Denmark, as a 28-year-old senior, at the 2008 Summer Olympics.^[2] Nielsen currently trains and races professionally for Germany's Team ALB-Gold Mountain Bike Team.

Nielsen qualified for the Danish squad, along with his teammate Jakob Fuglsang, in the men's cross-country race at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing by receiving one of the nation's two available berths for his team from the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI), based on his top-ten performance at the World Cup series and Mountain Biking World Series.^[3]^[4] With one lap to go, Nielsen struggled to keep his form throughout a 4.8-km sturdy, treacherous cross-country course, and instead pulled off directly from the race by taking the thirty-first spot.^[5]^[6]^[7]

References

^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Klaus Nielsen". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 28 October 2013.
^ Price, Harlan (4 September 2008). "Nielsen appointed Danish Champion after Andersen positive". Cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 28 October 2013.
^ "Nielsen replaces Riis Anderson on Danish cycling team". ESPN. 29 July 2008. Retrieved 27 October 2013.
^ Gjesse Hansen, Jens (29 July 2008). "Klaus Nielsen klar til OL" [Klaus Nielsen ready for Olympics] (in Danish). DR Forsiden. Retrieved 28 October 2013.
^ "Men's Cross-Country Race". Beijing 2008. NBC Olympics. Archived from the original on 19 August 2012. Retrieved 21 December 2012.
^ ""Unbeatable" Absalon wins his second gold". Agence France-Presse. Velo News. 22 August 2008. Archived from the original on 29 October 2013. Retrieved 24 October 2013.
^ Jones, Rob (21 August 2008). "French dominate the rest of the World". CNN-IBN. Archived from the original on 29 October 2013. Retrieved 27 October 2013.