Grischa Niermann

Around the Henninger Tower (2006)

In the 2005 individual time trial

Grischa Niermann (born November 3, 1975 in Hanover ) is a former German racing cyclist and later sporting director of a cycling team .

Athletic career

Since 1999 Grischa Niermann drove for the Dutch team Rabobank ; he was considered a good time trial . From 2000 to 2004 he competed in the Tour de France for Rabobank . In 2007 he started again in the Tour de France , which he finished 86th in the overall classification. In 2009, 2010 and 2011 he was nominated again for the tour. After the Vuelta a España in 2012 , he ended his career in order to work on the coaching staff of the Rabobank Continental Team , the junior team of the Rabobank Cycling Team.

doping

In January 2013, Grischa Niermann admitted to having doped with EPO "a few times" between 2000 and 2003 . He announced that he would provide the Dutch Anti-Doping Commission with all the details and information. At that time, Niermann drove for the Dutch Rabobank team . With effect from February 15, 2013, Niermann, who has been employed as a junior trainer by the Dutch cycling association Koninklijke Nederlandsche Wielren Unie (KNWU) since January 1, 2013, was suspended as a trainer for six months.

successes

1998

• German mountain championships
• Overall ranking and a stage tour of the Hessen
• one stage Volta ao Algarve

1999

• Overall ranking Regio-Tour

2001

• Overall evaluation of the Lower Saxony tour

2008

• one stage Rothaus Regio-Tour

Grand Tour overall ranking

Grand Tour	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012
Giro d'Italia	-	-	-	22nd	-	-	51	55	-	-	-	-	-	55
Tour de France	-	24	DNF	51	28	65	-	-	85	-	52	54	69	-
Vuelta a España	33	-	-	-	-	-	-	72	-	30th	-	71	-	103

Legend: DNF: did not finish , abandoned or withdrawn from the race due to timeout.

Teams

• 1997–1999 The Continentale Olympia
• 2000–2012 Rabobank

literature

• Birte Vogel: Grischa Niermann. In: Hanover in person. Seewind Verlag, Wennigsen 2011. ISBN 978-3-9814559-0-8 , pp. 86-102

Web links

• Grischa Niermann in the Radsportseiten.net database
• Grischa Niermann in the Tour de France database(French / English )
• Former official website ( Memento of December 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Niermann: "I'm not a Jens Voigt" on radsport-news.com v. September 12, 2012
2. ↑ Niermann admits EPO doping on radsport-news.com v. January 28, 2013
3. ↑ Grischa Niermann admits epo-doping on sueddeutsche.de v. January 28, 2013