caption fullname ridertype updated birth_place weight height discipline proteams birth_date proyears role image article_title name currentteam
nielsen competing in the 2008 olympics klaus nielsen cross-country october 26 , 2013 køge , denmark 66 kg lb 0 on 1.76 0 on mountain biking team alb-gold mountainbike 8 january 1980 2006 -- rider klaus nielsen.jpg klaus nielsen
 klaus nielsen team alb-gold mountainbike
klaus nielsen

klaus nielsen -lrb- born january 8 , 1980 in køge -rrb- is a danish professional mountain biker .
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 .
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 international cycling union -lrb- uci -rrb- , based on his top-ten performance at the world cup series and mountain biking world series .
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 .
