Filip Meirhaeghe
Filip Meirhaeghe (born 5 March 1971 in Ghent) is a retired Belgian racing cyclist. His primary focus was in mountain bike racing, however, he has also taken part in elite road, cyclo-cross and track cycling. He has won four Mountain Bike World Championships medals, one Olympic medal and a total of eleven mountain bike World Cup events. In the final years of his racing career he raced for the bicycle manufacturer Specialized Bicycle Components on the mountain bike and for the professional team Domina Vacanze-Elitron on the road.
Filip Meirhaeghe at the start of Omloop het Volk in 2007. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Filip Meirhaeghe | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 5 March 1971 Ghent, Belgium | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Current team | Retired | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Discipline | Road, Mountain bike | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Rider | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Silver medal 2000 Summer Olympics (Mountain bike) UCI MTB Cross Country World Championship (2003) UCI Mountain Bike World Cup (2002) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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