John Degenkolb

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John Degenkolb Road cycling
John Degenkolb (2017)
John Degenkolb (2017)
To person
Date of birth 7th January 1989 (age 31)
nation GermanyGermany Germany
discipline Street
Driver type Sprinter, classic driver
height 180 cm
Racing weight 77 kg
To the team
Current team Lotto Soudal
function driver
Societies)
until 2005
2006-2007 		RC Germania Weißenburg
SSV Gera
Team (s)
2008–2010
2011
2012–2016
2017–2019
2020- 		Thuringian Energy Team
HTC-Highroad
Team Giant-Alpecin
Trek-Segafredo
Lotto Soudal
Most important successes

One day race

Stage race

Racing series

Last updated: July 16, 2018

John Degenkolb (born January 7, 1989 in Gera ) is a German racing cyclist . In the sprint he won the classics Paris – Roubaix , Milan – Sanremo , Gent – ​​Wevelgem and Paris – Tours as well as stages in the Tour de France , the Giro d'Italia and the Vuelta a España .

Athletic career

John Degenkolb was already very successful as a young driver. From 2005 to 2007 he was in first place in his age group at the end of the year in the official ranking of the BDR . In 2006 he won the overall ranking of the Junior Bundesliga, in 2008 and 2010 the overall ranking of the U23. He won several German championships on the track and in the time trial in these age groups. In 2007 he became junior runner-up in the time trial.

In 2008 he switched to the Thuringian Energy Team , which had the status of a Continental Team , and until 2010 drove mainly U23 races for this team. In this age group he won the overall ranking of the cycling Bundesliga in 2008, was German road champion in 2010, and vice world champion in road racing in 2010 .

In 2011 he joined the US UCI ProTeam HTC-Highroad . In his first year there he was able to achieve a total of seven victories, including two stages of the Critérium du Dauphiné and the one-day race Eschborn – Frankfurt.

Since the HTC-Highroad team disbanded at the end of 2011, John Degenkolb switched to the Professional Continental Team Argos-Shimano in 2012 . There he achieved u. a. a fifth place at Milan – Sanremo and fourth places at the road world championship and at Paris – Tours . He won a total of twelve international bike races , including a. a. in his second Grand Tour participation, the Vuelta a España 2012 , five stages, which no German had succeeded before him. In addition, he was first in the overall individual classification of the UCI Europe Tour 2012 .

In May 2013, the first stage win followed at the next big tour, the Giro d'Italia . In August 2013, John Degenkolb won his first UCI WorldTour single-day race in the sprint , the Vattenfall Cyclassics , and in October, also in the sprint with Paris-Tours, his first classic .

In March 2014 Degenkolb won the Belgian spring classic Gent – ​​Wevelgem . He was the first German since Marcus Burghardt in 2007 to win the race. Degenkolb won the sprint of the pursuers at Paris-Roubaix in 2014 behind Niki Terpstra, who ran away 6 km from the finish, and so came second in this cycling monument . At the Vuelta a España 2014 he won four stages and won the green jersey of the best on points.

In March 2015, Degenkolb won the spring classic Milan – Sanremo in the sprint of a 26-strong front field and thus for the first time one of the monuments of cycling . A few weeks later he crossed the finish line in the Vélodrome in Roubaix as the first of a top group of seven riders, making him the first German in 119 years (after Josef Fischer in 1896) to win the Paris – Roubaix race and the third cyclist after that Belgian Cyrille Van Hauwaert (1908) and Irishman Sean Kelly (1986), who won these two cycling classics within a year. At the Vuelta a España 2015 he won the last stage in Madrid and thus achieved his tenth stage win in the Vuelta a España.

On January 23, 2016 Degenkolb - like his teammates Max Walscheid , Warren Barguil , Ramon Sinkeldam , Chad Haga and Fredrik Ludvigsson - was seriously injured in an accident during a training drive near Calpe, Spain . An elderly British tourist had driven into the training group on the wrong side of the road. Degenkolb suffered a broken forearm and almost lost the tip of his left index finger. During operations, tissue was transplanted from the hip into the finger, and Degenkolb has to wear a splint to keep the finger from shaking. In a press conference, Degenkolb stated that he had "no bad feelings" towards the driver involved in the accident. After all, she did not cause the accident on purpose: “What she's going through now is punishment enough.” However, he will take legal action.

Degenkolb's first race after the accident was on May 1, 2016 at Eschborn – Frankfurt , where he had to give up the race. On August 14, 2016, he won his first international race after his comeback with the final stage of the Arctic Race of Norway . In the spring season 2017 he was seventh at Milan – Sanremo and the Tour of Flanders , tenth at Paris-Roubaix and third at Eschborn – Frankfurt.

At the UCI Road World Championships 2017 , John Degenkolb was nominated as captain of the German national team. On the morning of the first day of the competition, the Association of German Cyclists announced that Degenkolb could not start for health reasons. A few days later, his Trek-Segafredo team reported that Degenkolb had been admitted to hospital for heart and lung examinations.

After Degenkolb at the beginning of the season in 2018, first two sections of the Mallorca Challenge won the sprint, he fell ill at Paris-Nice in a sinus infection , he that at Milan-San Remo was unable to start. Although he finished the Tour of Flanders in 32nd place and Paris-Roubaix in 17th place, he fell on his knee in the last race and had to take a month's training break. Due to the lack of form, it was questionable whether he would be set up for the Tour de France 2018 . During the tour he improved and won the cobblestone 9th stage to Roubaix and led a three-man top group in the sprint. So he won at least one stage on all three Grand Tours .

In the 2019 season, Degenkolb finished second at Gent-Wevelgem by winning the sprint runner-up, but was unable to achieve a top position in the Monuments of Cycling. In August 2019 he announced his departure from Trek-Segafredo at the end of the year and signed a contract with the Belgian team Lotto Soudal with a term until the end of 2021.

Others

Degenkolb was born in Gera and grew up in Weißenburg in Bavaria , where he attended secondary school . Degenkolb is married, lives in Oberursel and has had a son since January 2, 2015. Degenkolb is a big fan of Eintracht Frankfurt .

Before he started his professional career, Degenkolb did an apprenticeship at the Thuringian Police Education Center in Meiningen , where he belonged to the summer sports promotion group. He is a police officer on leave in the middle police force and has been an official for life since January 28, 2011.

In October 2018, Degenkolb was the first athlete to be appointed ambassador for Les Amis de Paris-Roubaix , an association of volunteers who strive to keep the route of the French classic, which was first held in 1896, in good condition. He also wants to support the Americans financially and leave memorabilia to the club's own museum. After the organizer of the junior edition of Paris-Roubaix Le Pavé de Roubaix , the VC Roubaix , announced in February 2019 that the edition of the current year threatened to be canceled due to a lack of sponsorship money in the amount of 10,000 euros, Degenkolb initiated a donation campaign on the GoFundMe platform and donated 2,500 euros himself. The required amount was secured within a day; Any additional funds are to be used for Les Amis de Paris-Roubaix . In January 2020, a pavé sector of Paris-Roubaix was named in recognition of this commitment. The sector d ' Hornaing à Wandignies-Hamage is the first to be named after a non-French driver.

Honors

  • 2012 German cyclist of the year
  • 2013 and 2014 "Frankfurt's Sportsman of the Year"
  • 2015 German cyclist of the year

successes

Degenkolb at the London 2012 Olympic Games road race
2005
  • MaillotAllemania.svg German champion - points race (youth)
  • MaillotAllemania.svg German Champion - Road Race (Youth)
2006
2007
  • silver World Championship - Individual Time Trial (Juniors)
  • MaillotAllemania.svg German Champion - Individual Time Trial (Juniors)
2008
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019

Important placements

Grand Tour 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020
Maglia Rosa Giro d'Italia - - DNF - - - - - -
Yellow jersey Tour de France - - 121 123 109 148 121 111 - DNF
Red jersey Vuelta a España 144 131 - 116 90 - DNF - 124
Legend: DNF: did not finish , abandoned or withdrawn from the race due to timeout.
Monument to cycling 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020
Milan – Sanremo - 5 18th 39 1 - 7th - 84 -
Tour of Flanders 94 59 9 15th 7th - 7th 32 29
Paris – Roubaix 19th 63 28 2 1 - 10 17th 28
Liège – Bastogne – Liège - - - - - - - - -
Lombardy tour - - - - - - - - - -

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ radsport-news.com from August 25, 2013: Degenkolb wins Hamburg Cyclassics before Greipel
  2. ↑ radsport-news.com of October 13, 2013: Degenkolb wins 107th Paris-Tours
  3. ↑ velomotion.de of March 30, 2014: Degenkolb takes revenge for his Primavera bad luck
  4. ↑ radsport-news.com of April 13, 2014: Terpstra and Degenkolb cheer in the Velodrome in Roubaix
  5. ↑ sportschau.de from September 15, 2014: Contador takes Vuelta overall victory
  6. ↑ Degenkolb triumphs on the Via Roma. radsport-news.com, March 22, 2015, accessed on March 22, 2015 .
  7. ↑ http://www.radsport-news.com/sport/sportnews_92480.htm
  8. ^ Paris-Roubaix cycling classic: Degenkolb celebrates historic success. In: Spiegel Online . April 12, 2015, accessed April 12, 2015 .
  9. ↑ radsport-news.com - Degenkolb and team mates hit by car in training camp. radsport-news.com, April 23, 2015, accessed March 30, 2016 .
  10. ↑ radsport-news.com - Giant Alpecin accident: female car driver released from police custody. radsport-news.com, April 23, 2015, accessed March 30, 2016 .
  11. ↑ a b Degenkolb on an accident driver: "Do not feel any hatred". rad-net.de, March 25, 2013, accessed on March 30, 2016 .
  12. ↑ Degenkolb: "I tasted the blood in my mouth". radsport-news.com, May 2, 2016, accessed August 14, 2016 .
  13. ↑ Degenkolb achieves much more than just a victory. radsport-news.com, August 14, 2016, accessed on August 14, 2016 .
  14. ↑ No World Cup start for John Degenkolb. In: bdr-medienservice.de. September 17, 2017. Retrieved September 17, 2017 .
  15. ^ Rp Online: Heart and lung problems: Professional cyclist Degenkolb admitted to hospital. In: rp-online.de. September 22, 2017. Retrieved September 30, 2017 .
  16. ↑ Degenkolb has to cancel the start at Milan-Sanremo. In: radsport-news.com. March 14, 2018, accessed July 16, 2018 .
  17. ↑ Degenkolb: “I feel an incredible satisfaction”. In: radsport-news.com. July 16, 2018, accessed July 16, 2018 .
  18. ↑ Degenkolb: Chances of getting a tour ticket are dwindling. In: radsport-news.com. June 13, 2018, accessed July 16, 2018 .
  19. ↑ Tour stage winner Degenkolb: King of Cobblestones , Spiegel , July 15, 2018, accessed on July 16, 2018
  20. ↑ Degenkolb: “In the end my legs weren't that bad”. In: radsport-news.com. March 31, 2019, accessed April 14, 2019 .
  21. ↑ Degenkolb changes to Lotto-Soudal. In: Spiegel Online. August 22, 2019. Retrieved August 22, 2019.
  22. ↑ , faz.de of March 23, 2014: Weltreisender with Plan B
  23. ↑ About me at johndegenkolb.de ( memento from December 20, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) accessed on December 15, 2013
  24. ↑ Team presentation of the Giant-Alpecin team , January 7, 2014, YouTube video (from 1:14:45)
  25. ↑ AZ from April 28, 2018: Frankfurt fan John Degenkolb: "The Eintracht eagle is there at every race"
  26. ↑ thueringer-allgemeine.de from January 15, 2011: Interview with John Degenkolb
  27. ↑ thueringen.de of October 30, 2013: Competitive athletes received certificates of appointment
  28. ↑ Degenkolb becomes ambassador of the "Amis de Paris-Roubaix". In: radsport-news.com. October 22, 2018, accessed October 22, 2018 .
  29. ↑ Degenkolb spearheads GoFundMe campaign to save U19 Paris-Roubaix. In: cyclingnews.com. February 17, 2019, accessed on February 17, 2019 .
  30. ↑ Degenkolb collects almost € 15,000 for U19-Roubaix over two days. In: radsport-news.com. February 18, 2019, accessed February 19, 2019 .
  31. ^ Paris-Roubaix names Pavé sector after Degenkolb. In: radsport-news.com. January 24, 2020, accessed January 24, 2020 .
  32. ↑ Degenkolb, Vogel / Welte and Schachmann «Cyclist of the year» on rad-net.de v. December 20, 2012
  33. ↑ Degenkolb defends the title of Frankfurt Sportsman of the Year. rad-net, November 26, 2014, accessed November 26, 2014 .
  34. ↑ Degenkolb and Vogel cyclist of the year. In: radsport-news.com. December 16, 2015, accessed December 16, 2015 .

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SURNAME Degenkolb, John
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German racing cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH January 7, 1989
PLACE OF BIRTH Gera