Marcel Meisen

Marcel Meisen

Marcel Meisen (2020)
To person
Date of birth	January 8, 1989
nation	Germany
discipline	Cross , street
To the team
Current team	Alpecin-Fenix
function	driver
Last updated: August 25, 2020

In 2020 Meisen became German road champion

Marcel Meisen (born January 8, 1989 in Stolberg ) is a German racing cyclist who is successful in cyclocross and road cycling .

Career

Marcel Meisen became German cyclocross champion in the U23 class in Herford in 2008 . In the two following years he won the silver medal in the U23 race. After finishing second in the elite in 2014, he won the championship title for the first time in 2015. Up to and including 2020 he was German cyclocross champion five times. Meisen started several times at cyclocross world championships , with his best placings being eighth in 2015 and ten in 2016 .

Meisen has been riding on the road for various UCI Continental teams since 2008 . and won six sections of international stage races between 2012 and 2015 .

In 2020 Marcel Meisen was surprisingly German road champion at the Sachsenring ahead of the favorite Pascal Ackermann , who finished second. This makes him the first driver since Reimund Dietzen in 1984, who became cross and road champion in the same year.

Private

Marcel Meisen lives in Stolberg, Rhineland (as of 2015). He is a son of Josef Meisen , who was also a successful cyclo-cross rider in the 1980s.

successes

Cyclocross

Titmouse at the Koppenbergcross 2013

2007/2008

• German Cyclo-cross Championships (U23)

2008/2009

• German Cyclo-cross Championships (U23)

2009/2010

• German Cyclo-cross Championships (U23)

2013/2014

• Grand Prix de la Region Wallonne
• Night van Woerden
• German cyclo-cross championships

2014/2015

• German cyclo-cross championships

2015/2016

• Grand Prix Hotel Threeland, Petange

2016/2017

• Jingle Cross
• Gran Premio Mamma E Papa Guerciotti AM
• Toi Toi Cup Unicov
• German cyclo-cross championships

2017/18

• German cyclo-cross championships

2018/19

• German cyclo-cross championships
• International Cross, Bensheim

2019/20

• German cyclo-cross championships

Street

2012

• a stage La Mi-Août en Bretagne

2013

• a stage Boucles de la Mayenne
• one stage Tour Alsace
• one stage Baltic Chain Tour

2015

• a stage Tour de Gironde
• one stage tour of Upper Austria

2020

• German champion - road race

Teams

• 2008 Team Kuota-Senges
• 2009 Team Kuota-Indeland
• 2010 Team Kuota-Indeland
• 2011 Team Eddy Merckx-Indeland (until July 31)
• 2011 BKCP-Powerplus (from August 1st)
• 2012 BKCP-Powerplus
• 2013 BKCP-Powerplus (until August 31)
• 2013 Kwadro-Stannah Cycling Team (from September 1st)
• 2014 Corendon-Kwadro
• 2015 Corendon-Kwadro (until April 22nd)
• 2015 Team Kuota-Lotto (from April 23rd)
• 2016 Team Kuota Lotto
• 2017 Observer Corendon (from March 15th)
• 2018 Corendon-Circus (from April 3rd)
• 2019 Corendon Circus
• 2020 Alpecin-Fenix

Web links

Commons : Marcel Meisen  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Marcel Meisen in the Radsportseiten.net database
• Marcel Meisen in the ProCyclingStats.com database
• Marcel Meisen in the rad-net.de database
• Official website of Marcel Meisen

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Marcel Meisen new German champion in cross. rad-net.de, January 11, 2015, accessed April 9, 2017 . 
2. ↑ Bikes in the mud, chips and spectacles - that's cyclocross . In: Handelsblatt . February 6, 2018 ( handelsblatt.com [accessed October 12, 2018]).
3. ↑ Marcel Meisen is the surprise champion. In: bdr-medienservice.de. August 23, 2020, accessed on August 23, 2020 . 
4. ↑ Meisen is German cross and road champion in personal union. In: radsport-news.com. August 23, 2020, accessed on August 24, 2020 . 
5. ^ Aachener Nachrichten: Stolberg / Borna: Stolberger Marcel Meisen surprisingly cross-champion. January 11, 2015, accessed October 12, 2018 .