Jonas Koch

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Jonas Koch Road cycling
Jonas Koch (2016)
Jonas Koch (2016)
To person
Date of birth June 25, 1993
nation GermanyGermany Germany
discipline Street
Driver type All-rounder
To the team
Current team CCC team
function driver
Last updated: December 15, 2018

Jonas Koch (born June 25, 1993 in Schwäbisch Hall ) is a German racing cyclist . He is considered a strong sprint all-rounder.

Career

Between 2012 and 2015, Koch drove for various UCI Continental teams and during this time won the youngsters' rankings in the international stage races Course de la Solidarité Olympique and Tour of Małopolska . His greatest career success up to that point was achieved in 2015 on the first stage of the U23 Nations Cup race Tour de l'Avenir , which he won after a long solo journey with an eleven-second lead over the peloton. At the end of the tour he won the points classification . In the 2015 cycling Bundesliga , he finished second.

He then received a contract with the Polish Professional Continental Team ActiveJet for the 2016 season . For this team he finished fourth overall on the 2016 Tour of the Fjord . After this team closed at the end of the season and Koch initially did not receive a new contract with a UCI team, he first drove with the German national team in the Mallorca Challenge , where he finished ninth at the Trofeo Palma . He then became a member of the Polish CCC Sprandi Polkowice team with effect from March 1, 2017 .

In the 2018 season he was ranked eighth overall in the Tour of Norway and finished ninth in the mass sprint of the UCI WorldTour race Prudential RideLondon & Surrey Classic . After the name sponsor of his team joined the UCI WorldTeam BMC for the 2018 season , Koch's hopes for a contract there were initially not fulfilled and signed back with the Heizomat rad-net.de team, for which he had already been driving in 2015. After he was signed by the CCC team at the turn of the year 2018/19, Heizomat released him from the contract by mutual agreement.

For the CCC team , Koch won the points classification of the Tour of Austria 2019 after top placements in the sprints and the mountain classification of the Tour de La Provence 2020 after a breakaway attempt on the second stage .

successes

2013
2014
2015
2019
2020

Grand Tour placements

Grand Tour 2019
Maglia Rosa Giro d'Italia -
Yellow jersey Tour de France -
Red jersey Vuelta a España 60

Teams

Web links

Commons : Jonas Koch  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Koch drives for CCC Sprandi Polkowice in 2017. rad-net.de, March 4, 2017, accessed April 24, 2017 .
  2. ↑ a b Tour de la Provence: Koch's exertions were rewarded. In: radsport-news.com. February 16, 2020, accessed February 16, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Koch wins 1st stage in solo, Dieteren fifth. radsport-news.com, August 23, 2015, accessed November 15, 2015 .
  4. ↑ Jonas Koch overall runner-up in the 2015 Rad-Bundesliga. Rad-Net Rose Team, September 14, 2015, accessed on November 16, 2015 .
  5. ↑ Active Jet with new strength in the first second division season. radsport-news.com, November 14, 2015, accessed November 15, 2015 .
  6. ^ Ackermann in London faster than Viviani and Nizzolo. In: radsport-news.com. July 29, 2018, accessed December 16, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Koch back to Heizomat-rad net, Wolf rides again for Bike Aid. In: radsport-news.com. November 30, 2018, accessed December 16, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Jonas Koch completes the 2019 CCC line-up . In: radsport-news.com. January 3, 2019, accessed January 3, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Cook, Jonas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German racing cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH June 25, 1993
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwäbisch Hall