Bjorn Thurau

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Bjorn Thurau Road cycling
Björn Thurau at the Tour of Britain 2016
Björn Thurau at the Tour of Britain 2016
To person
Date of birth July 23, 1988
nation GermanyGermany Germany
discipline Street
Driver type All-rounder
End of career 2019
Societies)
2010 Team Bergstrasse U23
Team (s)
2007
2008–2009
2011
2012–2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019 		Atlas-Romer's house bakery
Elk Haus
Team NSP
Team Europcar
Bora-Argon 18
Wanty-Groupe Gobert
Kuwait-Cartucho.es
Holdsworth
Vito-Feirense-Blackjack
Last updated: September 7, 2019

Björn Thurau (born July 23, 1988 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a former German cyclist .

Athletic career

After Thurau in the junior area a. a. won the overall ranking of the GP Rüebliland in 2006, he joined the Continental Team Atlas-Romer's in-house bakery in 2007 . He received his first contract with a Professional Continental Team in 2008 with the Austrian team Elk Haus-Simplon . In 2010 he competed for the Bundesliga team Bergstrasse U23 before moving to the German Continental team NSP for the 2011 season. This year he was able to win the youth championship at the French stage race Paris-Corrèze .

For the 2012 season he was signed by the French ProTeam Europcar and played his first Grand Tour for this team at the 2014 Giro d'Italia . He was active in three escape attempts and as an assistant to team captain Pierre Rolland , but had to give up the race on the 16th stage with health problems. In the subsequent Tour de Suisse he secured a. a. the mountain classification through a long escape on the second stage .

After driving for the Professional Continental Teams Bora-Argon 18 and Wanty-Groupe Gobert in the 2015 and 2016 seasons , the all-rounder joined the Continental Team Kuwait-Cartucho.es in 2017 and won for this team at the Tour of Qinghai Lake , third place overall in a race in the hors category . After a season with Team Holdsworth, he became a member of the Continental Team Vito Feirense Blackjack, which belongs to the Portuguese second division football club CD Feirense .

After the end of the 2019 season, he ended his sporting career because he saw no more chance of doing professional cycling above Continental teams. Since the beginning of 2020, he has been moderating the German-language branch GCN in German , a YouTube video channel, together with Mario Vogt .

Familiar

Björn Thurau is the son of the former professional cyclist Dietrich Thurau .

successes

2006
2011
2013
2014

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The cold and stomach problems forced Thurau to give up. radsport-news.com, May 28, 2014, accessed February 13, 2015 .
  2. ↑ Thurau on the best way to becoming an all-rounder. radsport-news.com, June 23, 2014, accessed February 13, 2015 .
  3. ↑ Thurau: "I am still capable of top performance". radsport-news.com, July 30, 2017, accessed July 30, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Björn Thurau is now driving for the football club , op-online.de , March 7, 2019
  5. ↑ "It was my incentive to satisfy myself". In: radsport-news.com. October 11, 2019, accessed October 11, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Discovery brings a German version of its Global Cycling Network to YouTube. In: meedia.de. January 16, 2020, accessed April 25, 2020 .

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personal data
SURNAME Thurau, Björn
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German racing cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH July 23, 1988
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main