Marcus Burghardt

Marcus Burghardt
	Marcus Burghardt (2015)
To person
Date of birth	June 30, 1983
nation	Germany
discipline	Street
Driver type	Classic drivers, helpers
height	1.89 meters
Racing weight	75 kilograms
To the team
Current team	Bora-hansgrohe
function	driver
Societies)
2003-2004	Wiesenhof U23
Team (s)
2005–2009 ; 2010–2016 ; 2017–	T-Mobile / High Road / Team Columbia ; BMC Racing Team ; Bora-hansgrohe
Most important successes
	Gent – Wevelgem 2007 ; a stage Tour de France 2008 German road champion 2017;
	Last updated: November 17, 2018

Marcus Burghardt at the 19th GP Buchholz 2007

Burghardt at the Tour de Suisse 2007, Olten

Burghart's victory at the German Road Cycling Championships 2017

Marcus Burghardt (born June 30, 1983 in Zschopau ) is a German racing cyclist . He is considered a strong helper . His greatest individual successes include winning the classic Gent – Wevelgem in 2007 and a stage of the Tour de France in 2008 as well as the German championship title in the road race in 2017 .

Athletic career

Marcus Burghardt began cycling in 1993 in RSV 54 Venusberg in the Ore Mountains . As a junior he achieved a German time trial championship . His greatest successes as a young rider were the victory in the overall ranking of the Trofeo Karlsberg 2001, a first and a second place in the overall ranking of the international three-stage tour of the junior cyclists in Frankfurt, fourth place in the U23 edition of Paris-Roubaix , a first place in the Bundesliga race in Gerlingen 2004 and two days leading the Giro delle Regioni 2004, which he finished in tenth.

In 2004, Burghardt received a contract with the T-Mobile team and then drew attention to himself with strong performances in the spring classics : in 2007 he finished twelfth in the Tour of Flanders , having already achieved third place in the semi-classic E3 prize . In April 2007, at the age of only 23, he won the Belgian classic Gent – Wevelgem after breaking out of a breakaway group 1,500 meters from the finish. Also in 2007, during a stage of the Tour de France, he collided with a passing dog, but was then able to continue.

In 2008, Burghardt won the 18th stage of the 2008 Tour de France from Le Bourg-d'Oisans to St. Etienne . He and Carlos Barredo were able to pull away from the field early on and win the sprint to the finish. Because of this victory, he was awarded the Badge of Honor of the Saxon Cyclists Association . In 2009 he was not nominated for the tour by his team Columbia .

The following year Burghardt moved to the BMC Racing Team , where he was under contract for the next seven years. Until 2015, he competed annually in the Tour de France, but without being able to record another victory. However, he established himself as a "first-class helper" who particularly supported his captain Cadel Evans in his 2011 Tour de France victory .

In spring 2016, Burghardt suffered a broken elbow in a serious fall during the Tour Down Under and was out for around two months. At the Tour de France that followed in the summer , Burghardt caused a sensation when a top speed of 130.7 km / h was measured on a descent during the 9th stage . At the end of the season, Burghardt left BMC after seven years and switched to the German team Bora-hansgrohe , with which world champion Peter Sagan is also under contract.