Hermann Pernsteiner

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Hermann Pernsteiner (2019)
Hermann Pernsteiner (2019)
To person
Full name Hermann Pernsteiner
Date of birth 7th August 1990 (age 30)
nation AustriaAustria Austria
discipline Mountain bike
road
Driver type Mountain riders, tour riders
height 168 cm
Racing weight 56-58 kg
To the team
Current team Bahrain-McLaren
function driver
Societies)
2004–2012
2012–2013
2014
2015–2017 		Mountain bike team Bucklige Welt
Rad.Sport.Szene Ausseerland
Fill Proforma Racing Team
Centurion Vaude
Team (s)
2016–2017
2018– 		Amplatz-BMC
Bahrain-Merida
Last updated: August 7, 2018

Hermann Pernsteiner (born August 7, 1990 in Oberwart ) is an Austrian racing cyclist in the disciplines of mountain bike and road cycling .

Career

Pernsteiner began cycling at the age of eleven in a school race for mountain bikes. He used the hilly terrain of his hometown Kirchschlag in the Bucklige Welt ( Lower Austria ) to train there. In 2004 he joined the Bucklige Welt mountain bike team , which, according to its own definition, sees itself as a cycling club with a special focus on promoting talented racing drivers. He was a member until 2012. In 2011, he first attracted international attention with second place in the U-23 marathon of the European Championship.

This success was decisive for Pernsteiner's move to the Rad.Sport.Szene Ausseerland team in 2012 . In mid-2013 he teamed up with Christina Kollmann and founded the Fill Proforma Racing Team , which from 2014 took part in international mountain bike marathons and stage races such as the Alpentour, Brasil Ride and Bike Transalp. Pernsteiner's success led him to get a contract with the German team Centurion Vaude in 2015 .

In addition to mountain bike races, Pernsteiner also competed in road races from 2016 at the invitation of the Austrian UCI Continental Team Amplatz-BMC . After finishing 16th in the Tour of Slovenia , he finished sixth in the Tour of Austria in 2016 , making him the best Austrian. After successfully contesting several road races in 2017 - including the Tour of Austria 2017 as the third best Austrian in twelfth place - he achieved his first international victory on the road in the Tour d'Azerbaïdjan (from May 3 to 7, 2017) retract. This put Pernsteiner in the spotlight, which is why he was offered a contract with the UCI WorldTeam Bahrain-Merida for 2018 . On September 30, 2017, Pernsteiner said goodbye to mountain biking by winning the Feneberg MTB Extreme Marathon .

At his first start for Bahrain-Merida at the Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana , he was 25th overall. At UCI World Tour -race Tour de Romandie , he finished eleventh overall. At the Tour of Japan , Pernsteiner finished second behind Marcos García . Pernsteiner celebrated his first win for his new Bahrain-Merida team on June 3, 2018 at the Gran Premio di Lugano , where he left nine Italians behind. At the Tour of Austria 2018 , Pernsteiner finished second in the overall standings despite a fall on the penultimate stage in which he dislocated his shoulder and broke a finger.

Personal

With a weight of 55 to 58 kg and a height of 168 cm, Pernsteiner has almost ideal body dimensions for a mountain driver.

Education and professional career

After attending the Kirchschlag elementary and secondary school in the Bucklige Welt, he attended the higher federal college for business professions in Oberwart , tourism marketing and customer management . He then studied training and sports at the Wiener Neustadt University of Applied Sciences .

successes

2012
  • bronze Austrian Championship - MTB Cross Country (U23)
2014
  • bronze Austrian Championship - MTB Cross Country
2015
  • silver Austrian Championship - Mountain
2016
2017
2018

Grand Tour placements

Grand Tour 2018 2019
Maglia Rosa Giro d'Italia - -
Yellow jersey Tour de France - -
Red jersey Vuelta a España DNF 15th
Legend: DNF: did not finish , abandoned or withdrawn from the race due to timeout.

Web links

Commons : Hermann Pernsteiner  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ MTB Team Bucklige Welt: Verein (accessed on July 12, 2018)
  2. ↑ a b c Bahrai-Merida-Pro-Cycling Team from August 20, 2017: Professional Mountain Biker Hermann Pernsteiner is Joining the Bahrai Merida Pro Cycling Team (English, accessed on July 12, 2018)
  3. ↑ Fill.at: Fill Profoma Racing Team on the wave of success (accessed on July 12, 2018)
  4. ↑ Abavent.de: 19th Feneberg MTB Marathon on September 30, 2017 (accessed on July 12, 2018)
  5. ↑ Pernsteiner: “As a cyclist you can take a lot”. In: radsport-news.com. July 14, 2018, accessed November 10, 2018 .
  6. ↑ a b Hermann Pernsteiner: Portrait (accessed on July 12, 2018)
personal data
SURNAME Pernsteiner, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH August 7, 1990
PLACE OF BIRTH Oberwart