Miguel Oliveira (motorcyclist), Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Miguel Oliveira (motorcyclist)

Portuguese motorcycle racer

Date of Birth: 04-Jan-1995

Place of Birth: Almada, Setúbal District, Portugal

Profession: motorcycle racer

Nationality: Portugal

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

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Miguel Ângelo Falcão de Oliveira (born 4 January 1995) is a Portuguese motorcycle racer, competing in the MotoGP World Championship for KTM Tech3, a satellite-team to KTM Factory Racing.He finished as runner-up in the 2018 Moto2 World Championship. At the 2015 Italian Grand Prix, Oliveira achieved the first World Championship victory for a Portuguese rider.He gained extensive experience in Moto3, having competed for the Estrella Galicia 0,0 team in 2012, the Mahindra Racing team in 2013 and 2014 and finishing runner-up with the Red Bull KTM Ajo team in 2015. Oliveira's father, a former motorcycle racer, always supported his son's love of racing and gave him his first quad-bike when he was four years old.
He started racing in the national championship at nine years old, in the Portuguese MiniGP Championship in 2004, winning the Young Promise of the Year award in Portugal.
His first successes came in 2005 when he won the Portuguese MiniGP championship and Metrakit World Festival in Spain.
In 2006 he repeated his earlier success and in 2007 he won the Mediterranean PreGP 125 Trophy.
In 2009 he was third in the Spanish championship, and in 2010 battled Maverick Viñales for the title, eventually finishing runner-up by just two points and progressed to become the first full-time Portuguese rider to reach the world championship.