Felix Großschartner

Felix Großschartner
	Großschartner at the U23 World Championship race (2015)
To person
Date of birth	December 23, 1993
nation	Austria
discipline	Street
Driver type	Mountain specialist
To the team
Current team	Bora-hansgrohe
function	driver
Most important successes
	UCI World Tour 2019 Tour of Turkey
	Last updated: April 21, 2019

Felix Großschartner (born December 23, 1993 in Wels ) is an Austrian cyclist . He is considered a mountain specialist.

Career

Großschartner drove for the first time in 2012 for a UCI Continental team , the Austrian team RC ARBÖ Gourmetfein Wels . In 2014 he became Austrian mountain champion. In 2015 he won the one-day races Trofeo Piva and Raiffeisen Grand Prix , the mountain classification of the Tour of Austria and a stage of the Giro della Regione Friuli Venezia Giulia . At the end of the 2015 season he drove as a stagiaire for the UCI WorldTeam Tinkoff-Saxo . In 2016 Großschartner switched to the Polish UCI Professional Continental Team CCC Sprandi Polkowice , for which he contested his first Grand Tour with the Giro d'Italia 2017 . The following year, he received in Bora-HANSGROHE his first regular contract at a World Team and finished this season at the UCI World Tour bus tours Paris-Nice the 10th and Tour of Guangxi second place. He also took third place on a mountain stage of the Giro d'Italia and was 27th overall.

In April 2019, Felix Großschartner won a stage race of the UCI WorldTour for the first time with the Tour of Turkey . The basis for this was his victory in the fifth stage with a difficult mountain finish , in which he shook off his last companion Merhawi Kudus about 700 meters from the finish.