Björn Schröder

Björn Schröder at the Four Days of Dunkirk 2010

Björn Schröder handing over a new training bike

Björn Schröder (born October 27, 1980 in Berlin ) is a German racing cyclist .

After Schröder won the German U23 mountain championships in 2002 , he became a professional with Team Wiesenhof in 2003 . There he won two stages of the Circuit des Mines in the first year , where he also won the jersey of the best sprinter and won the mountain classification of the Rhineland-Palatinate Tour .

In 2006 he moved to the UCI ProTeam Milram , where he stayed until the end of the 2010 season. For this team he competed in the Tour de France in 2006 and 2008 , the Giro d'Italia in 2010 and the Vuelta a España in 2009 and 2010 . With the exception of the Vuelta 2009, where Schröder was seriously injured in a mass fall during the fourth stage and consequently had to end the season prematurely, he ended all of these “Grand Tours” . His greatest success during this time was the overall victory at the Rothaus Regio-Tour in 2008.

Schröder ended his cycling career at the end of the 2013 season to take up a job with the name sponsor of his last team, Team Stölting .

Björn Schröder lives in Berlin and has one child.