Marcel Sieberg

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Marcel Sieberg Road cycling
Marcel Sieberg (2016)
Marcel Sieberg (2016)
To person
Nickname Sibi
Date of birth April 30, 1982
nation GermanyGermany Germany
discipline Street
Driver type helper
height 1.98 m
Racing weight 80 kg
To the team
Current team Bahrain Merida
function driver
Team (s)
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013–2014
2015–2018
2019 		Team Lamonta
Wiesenhof-Akud
Team Milram
Team Columbia
Team Columbia-High Road
Team HTC-Columbia
Omega Pharma-Lotto
Lotto Belisol Team
Lotto Belisol
Lotto Soudal
Bahrain-Merida
Most important successes

silver German U23 road championships 2004
Ronde van Drenthe 2005
GP Jef Scherens 2006

Last updated: November 10, 2018
Sieberg at the 19th GP Buchholz 2007
Sieberg (l.) Before the start of the Deutschland Tour 2018 in Bonn, with Christian Knees (l.) And Pascal Ackermann

Marcel Sieberg (born April 30, 1982 in Castrop-Rauxel ) is a German racing cyclist . He is considered a good sprinter and driver.

Career

After Sieberg finished second in the U23 race in the 2004 German Road Championships , he joined the German Continental Team Lamonta in 2005 . For this team he won the Dutch semi-classic Ronde van Drenthe in a sprint of a nine-man top group . For the 2006 season he switched to the Professional Continental Team Team Wiesenhof-Akud and was able to do another one-day race in the UCI category 1.1 with the GP Jef Scherens Leuven . win.

In 2007 he drove for the German UCI ProTeam Milram . In the 2nd stage of the Tour de France 2007 he drove together with Cédric Hervé and Rubén Pérez until shortly before the end with a long gap in front of the main field. Then he was awarded the red number as the most combative driver of the stage .

From 2008 to 2010 he drove for the Columbia team . Together with André Greipel , he switched to the Belgian cycling team Omega Pharma-Lotto for the 2011 season , where he played a central role in preparing for the sprint train of the multiple Tour de France stage winner.

He then achieved fewer individual successes, including victories at the Sparkassen Giro Bochum in 2012, 2014 and 2015. In 2016, he surprisingly came seventh and thus the best German at the Paris-Roubaix cycling monument after falling back from the top group on the penultimate cobblestone passage .

successes

2000

  • MaillotAllemania.svg German Champion - Road Race (Juniors)
  • Overall ranking Giro di Basilicata
  • Overall ranking Driedaagse van Axel
  • Overall ranking and one stage Trofeo Karlsberg

2001

2002

2003

2004

2005

2006

2007

Grand Tours placements

Grand Tour 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
Maglia Rosa Giro d'Italia - - - DNF - - - - - - - -
Yellow jersey Tour de France 120 - - - 141 132 DNF 145 150 169 DNF DNF
Red jersey Vuelta a España - - 122 - - - - - - - - -
Legend: DNF: did not finish , abandoned or withdrawn from the race due to timeout.

Web links

Commons : Marcel Sieberg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b radsport-news.com from July 9, 2007: Sieberg advertises himself and his team
  2. ↑ a b faz.net of January 30, 2013: "The big German" and his private train
  3. ↑ a b c Greipel-Helfer Sieberg in the spotlight: "Makes me proud". rad-net.de, April 11, 2016, accessed on April 12, 2016 .
  4. ↑ radsport-news.com of April 10, 2005: Sieberg sprints to overall victory
personal data
SURNAME Sieberg, Marcel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German racing cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH April 30, 1982
PLACE OF BIRTH Castrop-Rauxel