Bert Grabsch

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Bert Grabsch Road cycling
Bert Grabsch (2009)
Bert Grabsch (2009)
To person
Date of birth June 19, 1975
nation GermanyGermany Germany
discipline Street
Driver type Time trial
End of career 2013
Societies)
1986–1988
1989–1996
since 2017
BSG Chemie Piesteritz
SC DHfK Leipzig
Brandenburger SC Süd 05
Team (s)
1997–1998
1999–2000
2001–2006
2007–2011
2012–2013
Agro-Adler Brandenburg
Cologne
Phonak
HTC-Highroad
Omega Pharma-Quick Step
Most important successes

UCI Time trial world champion 2008
one stage Vuelta a España 2007
Sachsen Tour 2008

Last updated: August 3, 2011

Bert Grabsch (born June 19, 1975 in Lutherstadt Wittenberg ) is a former German cyclist .

Career

Bert Grabsch grew up in Seegrehna near Lutherstadt Wittenberg . At first he played soccer and was then lured into cycling by his older brother Ralf , who has since become a professional cyclist as well. In 1986 he started cycling training at BSG Chemie Piesteritz . In 1989 he moved to SC DHfK Leipzig .

In 1997 he became a professional with the Agro-Adler Brandenburg cycling team . In 1999 he moved to Team Cologne and in 2001 to the Phonak Cycling Team . From 2007 to 2011 he drove for the German team T-Mobile and its American successor team Highroad . After its dissolution, Grabsch moved to the Belgian Omega Pharma-Quickstep team for the 2012 season .

At the road world championships in 2008 in Varese , Italy, Grabs recorded the greatest success of his career to date, when he was superior with over 40 seconds ahead of the second world champion in the individual time trial . In the years 2007 to 2009 and 2011 he was each German time trial champion. At the Olympic Games in London in 2012 he finished eighth in the time trial.

After the end of the 2013 season, Bert Grabsch ended his professional career.

In his new place of residence in Brandenburg an der Havel , he has been an amateur in the cycling department of Brandenburger SC Süd 05 since October 15, 2017 .

successes

2000
Hel van het Mergelland
2002
one stage tour of Burgos
2005
Around the Hainleite
2007
German champions German time trial champion
a stage Vuelta a España
2008
German champions German time trial champion
one stage tour of Austria
Overall ranking and a stage of the Saxony Tour
World champion in the individual time trial World champion in the individual time trial
2009
a stage Dauphiné Libéré
German champions German time trial champion
2011
German champions German time trial champion
one stage tour of Austria

Placement in the Grand Tours

Bert Grabsch in the individual time trial at the 2012 Olympic Games
Grand Tour 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013
Maglia Rosa Giro d'Italia 61 - - - - - - - - - - -
Yellow jersey Tour de France - - 81 103 107 105 - 134 169 - 125 -
Red jersey Vuelta a España - - 86 - - DNF - DNF - 136 - -
Legend: DNF: did not finish , abandoned or withdrawn from the race due to timeout.

Teams

Personal

Bert Grabsch lived for a few years in Switzerland in various places in the Kreuzlingen district ( Canton Thurgau ), including Bottighofen , Tägerwilen , on Lake Constance .

He had previously completed a commercial apprenticeship, worked for two years in a cycling shop and completed a two-year marketing course at the Swiss Marketing Academy in 2017 . In the summer of 2017, he and his family moved from Tägerwilen to Brandenburg an der Havel , where he has been working in a cycling business since September, which he intends to take over as the owner from January 1, 2018.

Grabsch is married and has two daughters (* ~ 2004 and ~ 2011).

Individual evidence

  1. Grabsch: "I was down very often this year". October 28, 2013. Retrieved October 29, 2013 .
  2. New member at BSC Süd 05 . Retrieved October 31, 2017
  3. Profile Bert Grabsch on XING . Retrieved August 27, 2017.
  4. Manfred Hönel, Peter Stein: Cycling World Champion becomes Brandenburger In: Märkische Allgemeine , Lokalsport, August 12, 2017. Retrieved on August 27, 2017.

Web links

Commons : Bert Grabsch  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files