Harald Morscher

Harald Morscher

Harald Morscher as a driver for Team Volksbank in August 2007
To person
Date of birth	June 22, 1972
nation	Austria
discipline	Street
To the team
Current team	Bahrain-McLaren
function	Sports director
Last updated: July 12, 2017

Harald Morscher as Team Manager of the Vorarlberg team at the opening Leonding 2011 race

Harald Morscher (born June 22, 1972 in Hohenems , Vorarlberg ) a former Austrian cyclist and later sports director .

Cyclist

As an amateur, Morscher won, among other things, a stage and the overall ranking at the Tour of Austria in 1994. In 1997 he was Austrian mountain champion and second in the state championship in road racing . Morscher also won three stages of the Austrian stage race Vienna-Gresten-Vienna . In 1996 he started the road race at the Olympic Games in Atlanta and finished 46th.

In 1998 Morscher received a contract with the Italian cycling team Saeco , for which he achieved a second stage position at Paris-Nice as the best result . In 2000 he moved to Germany for Team Nürnberger , then back to Austria, where he was under contract with Elk Haus for a year . He celebrated one of his greatest successes with the Volksbank team in 2004 when he won the national championship title in Großraming ahead of Christian Pfannberger and Georg Totschnig . In the same year Morscher was nominated by the Austrian Cycling Association as one of four drivers for the road race of the road world championships in Verona . When the Volksbank team first achieved the status of a Professional Continental Team in 2006 , Morscher became co-owner and, in addition to his work as a racing driver, was also involved in management tasks.

Harald Morscher took part in the Tour of Austria 16 times as a driver. Only once did he not reach the finish line due to an illness-related absence.

Sports director

After the 2009 season, Morscher ended his active career and switched to team management as sports director. On July 1, 2010, Morscher took over from Thomas Kofler as the team manager of what is now the Continental Team Vorarlberg-Corratec , but left the team's management after the 2011 season and was appointed by Hans-Michael Holczer as manager for the junior teams of the ProTeams Katyusha brought in. During the Tour of Austria 2015 , Morscher acted as team coordinator, responsible for communication with all participating teams. For the 2017 season he became the sporting director of the newly founded Bahrain-Merida team .

successes

1993 two stages Vienna-Gresten-Vienna 1994 Overall ranking and a stage tour of Austria 1995 a stage Vienna-Gresten-Vienna 1996 Overall evaluation of the Styria Tour 1997 Austrian Masters - Berg Austrian Championship - Road Race 2000 a stage and points classification Tour de Poitou-Charentes one stage tour of Hessen

2001 one stage tour of Austria a stage Tour de Normandie 2002 Austrian Championship - Road Race 2004 Austrian champions - road races 2005 Austrian Masters - Berg 2006 Austrian Championship - Road Race

Teams

• 1998-1999 Saeco
• 2000–2002 Team Nürnberger
• 2003 Elk House
• 2004–2009 Volksbank team

Web links

Commons : Harald Morscher  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Harald Morscher in the Radsportseiten.net database
• Harald Morscher as sporting director in the Radsportseiten.net database
• Harald Morscher in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Harald Morscher ends active career , accessed on August 4, 2011.
2. ↑ Team names starters for the Austria Tour  ( page can no longer be accessed , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved August 4, 2011  
3. ↑ Profile of Harald Morscher on the official team website  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved August 4, 2011  
4. ^ Vorarlberger Nachrichten: Behind the scenes of the Ö-Tour
5. ↑ Morscher becomes sports director at Bahrain-Merida. radsport-news.com, December 21, 2016, accessed December 21, 2016 .