Bernhard Eisel

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Bernhard Eisel Road cycling
Bernhard Eisel (2018)
Bernhard Eisel (2018)
To person
Date of birth 17th February 1981 (age 39)
nation AustriaAustria Austria
discipline Street
height 183 cm
Racing weight 74 kg
End of career 2020
Team (s)
2001–2002
2003–2006
2007–2011
2012–2015
2016–2019 		Mapei-Quick Step
FDJeux.com
T-Mobile / High Road / Columbia / HTC
Sky ProCycling
Team Dimension Data
Most important successes
Gent – ​​Wevelgem 2010
a stage Tour de Suisse 2005
Last updated: January 14, 2020

Bernhard Eisel (born February 17, 1981 in Voitsberg ) is a former Austrian cyclist .

Career

Bernhard Eisel became a professional with the Mapei cycling team in 2001 . In 2006, he finished fourth in the Paris-Roubaix cobblestone race , a monument to cycling .

After the native of Styria in 2007 the UCI ProTeam T-Mobile joined, he became one of the most important helpers in the sprint train of Mark Cavendish , with which he jumped in the following years in different teams. He achieved his greatest individual success at the classic Gent-Wevelgem , which he won in 2010 in a sprint of a six-person leading group.

Outside of active cycling, Eisel is involved in the professional cycling association Cyclistes Professionnels Associés .

In September 2017, the electoral candidate was elected to the UCI Athletes Commission.

In April 2018, Bernhard Eisel had to undergo surgery because of a brain hemorrhage. It was suspected that it was a long-term consequence of a serious fall in the Tirreno-Adriatico stage race in mid-March. However, he returned to cycling just a few months later and took part in the Tour of Poland.

In January 2020 Eisel announced his retirement as a racing cyclist.

Bernhard Eisel lives with his wife Tanja Eisel in Carinthia and is a father of three.

Awards

In 2006, 2010 and 2011 Eisel was voted “ Cyclist of the Year ” in Austria .

successes

1997
gold European Youth Olympic Festival - road races, individual time trials
2003
one stage Tour du Limousin
one stage Grand Prix Erik Breukink
2005
two stages Algarve tour
one stage Tour de Suisse
2006
one stage tour of Qatar
one stage Algarve tour
a stage three days from De Panne
2007
one stage Algarve tour
Lancaster Classic
Reading Classic
2008
one stage Algarve tour
Paris – Bourges
2010
Gent – ​​Wevelgem
2017
Mountain classification Arctic Race of Norway

Grand Tour placements

Grand Tour 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
Maglia Rosa Giro d'Italia DNF - - - - - - - - 152 - 138 143 - - - -
Yellow jersey Tour de France - 131 143 108 121 143 150 156 161 146 - 126 - 171 153 - -
Red jersey Vuelta a España - - DNF DNF - - - DNF - - - - - - - - -
Legend: DNF: did not finish , abandoned or withdrawn from the race due to timeout.
Eisel at the Tour de France 2011

Web links

Commons : Bernhard Eisel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bernie Eisel: 'The gang is back together with Mark Cavendish'. cyclingweekly.co.uk, January 28, 2016, accessed May 8, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Eisel calls for rider unity in cases of extreme weather. cyclingsnews.com, March 31, 2015, accessed May 8, 2016 .
  3. ^ Vos and Eisel elected onto the UCI Athletes' Commission. In: uci.ch. September 24, 2017, accessed October 1, 2017 .
  4. ^ Cycling professional Bernhard Eisel operated on for cerebral haemorrhage. Retrieved April 25, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Tour of Poland overall classification. Retrieved August 5, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Eisel is retiring. In: radsport-news.com. January 14, 2020, accessed January 14, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Eisel voted Austria's cyclist of the year radsport-news.com, January 25, 2011.
  8. ↑ Eisel once again Austria's cyclist of the year radsport-news.com, January 20, 2012.
personal data
SURNAME Eisel, Bernhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH 17th February 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH Voitsberg