Jonas Ljungblad
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Jonas Ljungblad is a Swedish
Sweden
Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

 road racing cyclist, currently riding for Continental Team Differdange
Continental Team Differdange
Continental Team Differdange is a continental cycling team based in Luxembourg that participates in UCI Continental Circuits races. The team was founded in 2006.-Major results:2006...

. He began his professional career with the Amore & Vita team in 2002 as a young helper but after spending a season with Team Bianchi
Team Bianchi
Team Bianchi was a makeshift team that was put together from the remnants of the Coast team in time for the 2003 Tour de France.Team Coast had been unable to pay the salaries of their riders and Bianchi took over the team and the role of title sponsor. Coast had recently signed Jan Ullrich...

 his career began to skyrocket with a very successful Australian excursion in 2004 winning the Tour of Queensland and the Herald Sun Tour
Herald Sun Tour
The Herald Sun Tour is an Australian professional bicycle race held in Melbourne and provincial Victoria sanctioned by the Union Cycliste Internationale . The first tour was held in October 1952 as a six day event and it is held annually in October. It is named after the Herald Sun, Melbourne's...

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In 2005 he acquired his biggest victory to date, winning the Swedish national championship. This, along with his win in the Route d'Vendee, attracted the attention of Unibet.com Cycling Team
Unibet.com Cycling Team
Cycle Collstrop was a Swedish UCI Professional Continental cycling team. It was the successor to Unibet.com, which was mainly sponsored by the online gambling website Unibet.com and as a continuation of the MrBookmaker.com cycling team...

 who hired him to be a helper to the likes of Baden Cooke
Baden Cooke
Baden Cooke is an Australian professional racing cyclist for UCI ProTour team .Cooke began competitive cycling at 11. He completed secondary school at Galen College in Wangaratta, Victoria....

 and Frank Vandenbroucke
Frank Vandenbroucke (cyclist)
Frank Vandenbroucke , was a Belgian professional road racing cyclist. He was the great hope of Belgian cycling in the 1990s but a remarkable talent which appeared in his adolescence in athletics and then in cycle racing dissipated in a succession of drugs problems, rows with teams, suicide...

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Palmares

2002
  • Herald Sun Tour stage 3

2004
  • Tour of Queensland overall and stage 5 and 7
  • Herald Sun Tour overall and stage 7
  • Tour de Slovénie stage 4

2005
  • Tour du Lac Léman
  • Tour de Vendée
  • National Road Championship
  • Melbourne - Warrnambool

2006
  • Tour de Luxembourg
    Tour de Luxembourg
    Tour de Luxembourg is an annual stage race in professional road bicycle racing held in Luxembourg. The Tour de Luxembourg is classified as a 2.HC, the highest rating below the ProTour, by the Union Cycliste Internationale , the sport's governing body. In 2006, the Tour was part of the UCI Europe...

     stage 3

2011
  • 3rd Tartu GP
    Tartu GP
    The Tartu GP is a one-day road cycling race in Tartu, Estonia. It was first run in 2001 and became part of the UCI Europe Tour as a 1.1 event in 2005. The most successful rider is Jaan Kirsipuu with three consecutive victories.- Past winners :...

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