Emanuel Buchmann

Emanuel Buchmann
	Emanuel Buchmann (2015)
To person
Nickname	emu
Date of birth	18th November 1992 (age 27)
nation	Germany
discipline	Street
Driver type	Mountain riders
To the team
Current team	Bora-hansgrohe
function	driver
Societies)
2007-2011	KJC Ravensburg
Team (s)
2012 ; 2013–2014 ; 2015–	Team Specialized Concept Store ; rad-net Rose Team ; Bora-Argon 18 / Bora-hansgrohe
Most important successes
	German Road Championships 2015 one stage Basque Country Tour 2019
	Last updated: February 2, 2020

Emanuel Buchmann (born November 18, 1992 in Ravensburg ) is a German racing cyclist . In 2015 he became German road champion .

Athletic career

In 2010 Emanuel Buchmann took third place in the Junior Tour of Flanders . In 2014 he won the title of German mountain champion in the U23 class and won the overall ranking of the cycling Bundesliga as well as a stage of the Okolo Jižních Čech tour , in which he also came third in the overall ranking. He was also seventh in the Tour de l'Avenir in 2014 and eighth in both the Mzansi Tour and the Tour d'Azerbaïdjan .

In 2015 Buchmann joined the Professional Continental Team Bora-Argon 18 , which received a license as a UCI WorldTeam from the 2017 season . He and his teammates won the team time trial at the start of the Giro del Trentino . At the World Tour round trip Critérium du Dauphiné , he reached the finish line on the king's stage together with Tour de France winner of the previous year, Vincenzo Nibali , who started the stage as the overall leader. At the German road championships , after a solo attack a few kilometers from the finish, he won the title of German road champion of the elite ahead of Nikias Arndt . In the same year Buchmann was nominated for the first time by his team for the Tour de France . He took third place on the eleventh stage , during which the route led over the Col du Tourmalet .

In 2016, Buchmann achieved eighth place in the overall ranking of the Giro del Trentino at the beginning of the year , and in the Dauphiné Tour he was 20th overall on his second participation. He narrowly missed the goal of finishing the Tour de France 2016 in the top 20 in 21st place. In the same year he was 14th in the road race of the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro .

The Tour de Romandie 2017 graduating Buchmann tenth overall after he finished third on the queen stage of the tour. In the subsequent Tour of the Alps , he finished seventh. At the Critérium du Dauphiné 2017 he was overall seventh and won the junior ranking. After Peter Sagan's expulsion and Rafał Majka's fall-related abandonment, he moved up to the role of captain of his Bora-hansgrohe team at the 2017 Tour de France and finished fifteenth overall.

In 2018, Buchmann finished in the top ten of five World Tour tours: he was tenth on the Abu Dhabi Tour , fourth on the Basque Country Tour, ninth on the Tour de Romandie , sixth on the Critérium du Dauphiné and seventh on the Tour of Poland . He gave up the Tour de France 2018 in favor of a start as captain at the Vuelta a España , where he was twelfth overall.

Buchmann won his first international one-day race as a soloist at the beginning of the 2019 season with the Trofeo Andratx-Lloseta , after attacking 20 kilometers from the finish. The next day he finished second at the Trofeo de Tramuntana . The subsequent UAE Tour , a stage race of the WorldTour, he finished fourth in the overall standings. In the Tour of the Basque Country, he won the mountainous 5th stage and thus his first race on the WorldTour. As a result, he took over the overall lead from his team-mate Maximilian Schachmann , but fell back to third on the final day after an attack by a group around Ion Izagirre, who had been second overall, around 60 kilometers from the finish. At the Critérium du Dauphiné, Buchmann took 3rd place overall.

In the subsequent Tour de France 2019 , Buchmann finished fourth in the mountain top finishes at the Col du Tourmalet and in Foix and also finished the tour in fourth place in the overall standings. This was the best result of a German rider in the Tour de France since 2006 , when Andreas Klöden finished second.

Buchmann started the 2020 season again at the Mallorca Challenge, where he celebrated another victory. In his first race of the season he won the Trofeo Serra de Tramuntana as a soloist from a small group of leaders.