Magnus Bäckstedt

Magnus Bäckstedt is a Swedish former professional road racer born in Linköping, who began as a skier and was selected for the national ski team at fourteen. He turned professional in 1996 and won the nineteenth stage of the 1998 Tour de France between La Chaux-de-Fonds and Autun. His biggest victory came in 2004, when he won Paris-Roubaix for Alessio-Bianchi by outsprinting three rivals on the track at Roubaix after the favourites Peter Van Petegem and Johan Museeuw dropped out following crashes. He later rode for Liquigas-Bianchi and for Slipstream-Chipotle in 2008, the year he was eliminated from the Tour de France for finishing outside the time limit.