Gustav Larsson

Gustav Erik Larsson (born 20 September 1980) is a Swedish former professional road racing cyclist, who rode professionally between 2001 and 2016 for nine different teams. Larsson specialised as a time trialist, winning the Swedish National Time Trial Championships seven times between 2006 and 2015, and won silver medals at the Beijing Olympics in 2008 and the 2009 World Championships in Mendrisio.

Professional career
On the international scene he represented Team Saxo Bank, and in Sweden he represented Skoghalls CK-Hammarö. Gemla-born Larsson began cycling when he was 14 years and, having shown great talent and dedication, turned pro just 7 years later. Team was his first employer, and when the team shut down in 2005 he moved on to Team. He rode for one year for Française des Jeux before moving again to the Swedish-Belgian team, which had gained a wild card to the UCI ProTour in 2006. But just as the 2007 season started the team ran into trouble with the Amaury Sport Organisation who made it clear that Unibet.com would not be invited to Paris–Nice or the Tour de France. Other major race organizers followed suit, which resulted in Unibet.com not getting any major invitations. The team shut down shortly thereafter. showed interest in Larsson, and he rode for them in 2008. After the 2008 season, it was reported that Larsson had signed with Caisse d'Epargne for 2009, but he continued with Team Saxo Bank. He remained with the team until the end of 2011, when he moved to. Larsson left at the end of the 2012 season, and joined the new Swiss-based team  team for the 2013 season. Larsson signed for the team for the 2015 season.

In March 2015 Larsson made an attempt on the hour record at a Revolution meeting at Manchester Velodrome. He failed to beat Rohan Dennis' world record of 52.491 km but his distance of 50.016 km was a new Swedish hour record.

Personal life
He resides in Monaco with his wife Veronica Andrèasson, who also competed as a road racing cyclist. The couple own Vélo Monaco, a cycling holiday organisation.

Major results



 * 2001
 * 1st Stage 4b Grand Prix Guillaume Tell
 * 2nd Time trial, National Road Championships


 * 2002
 * 1st Jersey yellow.svg Overall Okolo Slovenska
 * 1st Young rider classification
 * 1st Stage 5 (ITT)
 * 1st Stage 4 Brandenburg–Rundfahrt
 * 2nd Time trial, National Road Championships
 * 2nd Overall Grand Prix Guillaume Tell
 * 1st Stage 5a
 * 3rd Overall Ringerike GP
 * 1st Stage 1
 * 4th Time trial, UEC European Under-23 Road Championships


 * 2004
 * 4th Time trial, UCI Road World Championships


 * 2006
 * 1st MaillotSuecia.PNG Time trial, National Road Championships


 * 2007
 * National Road Championships
 * 1st MaillotSuecia.PNG Time trial
 * 3rd Road race
 * 3rd Overall Eneco Tour
 * 3rd Duo Normand (with Víctor Hugo Peña)
 * 5th Overall Tour Down Under
 * 6th Chrono des Nations
 * 7th Overall Tour de Luxembourg
 * 8th Overall Deutschland Tour


 * 2008
 * 2nd Silver medal olympic.svg Time trial, Olympic Games
 * 2nd Time trial, National Road Championships
 * 2nd Overall Critérium International
 * 4th Overall Danmark Rundt
 * 1st Stage 5 (ITT)
 * 5th Time trial, UCI Road World Championships
 * 5th Overall Tour of California
 * 5th Overall Sachsen Tour
 * 6th Overall Tirreno–Adriatico


 * 2009
 * 1st Overall Tour du Poitou Charentes et de la Vienne
 * 1st Stage 3 (ITT)
 * 2nd Silver medal blank.svg Time trial, UCI Road World Championships
 * 2nd Overall Tour of Missouri
 * 7th Overall Tour de Luxembourg
 * 10th Japan Cup


 * 2010
 * National Road Championships
 * 1st MaillotSuecia.PNG Time trial
 * 2nd Road race
 * 1st Jersey yellow.svg Overall Tour du Limousin
 * 1st Stage 2 (ITT)
 * 1st Stage 21 (ITT) Giro d'Italia
 * 1st Stage 1 (ITT) Vuelta a la Comunidad de Madrid
 * 4th Chrono des Nations
 * 7th Overall Vuelta a Andalucía
 * 10th Time trial, UCI Road World Championships


 * 2011
 * 1st MaillotSuecia.PNG Time trial, National Road Championships
 * 2nd Chrono des Nations


 * 2012
 * 1st MaillotSuecia.PNG Time trial, National Road Championships
 * 1st Stage 1 (ITT) Paris–Nice
 * 8th Chrono des Nations


 * 2013
 * 1st MaillotSuecia.PNG Time trial, National Road Championships
 * 2nd Chrono des Nations
 * 5th Overall Tour du Poitou-Charentes
 * 8th Overall Tour Méditerranéen
 * 9th Time trial, UCI Road World Championships


 * 2014
 * 4th Overall Tour of Norway


 * 2015
 * 1st MaillotSuecia.PNG Time trial, National Road Championships
 * 9th Overall Bayern–Rundfahrt
 * 9th Overall Tour of Norway


 * 2016
 * 3rd Time trial, National Road Championships