Max Walscheid

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Max Walscheid Road cycling
Max Walscheid (2016)
Max Walscheid (2016)
To person
Date of birth June 13, 1993
nation GermanyGermany Germany
discipline Street
Driver type sprinter
To the team
Current team NTT Pro Cycling
function driver
Most important successes

Münsterland Giro 2018

Last updated: July 4th, 2020
Max Walscheid (right) at the German Road Cycling Championships 2017

Maximilian Richard Walscheid (born June 13, 1993 in Neuwied ) is a German racing cyclist . He is considered a sprint specialist.

Career

Walscheid graduated from high school in 2012 at the Werner-Heisenberg-Gymnasium Neuwied , where he switched from athletics to cycling while attending school.

Walscheid won two stages of the Berlin Tour in 2014 and was German U23 road champion . In 2015 he won a stage of the Berlin Tour, in which he also came second in the overall standings, and the Belgian one-day race Kernen Omloop Echt-Susteren . He won these competitions in the sprint of the main field or by a few seconds ahead. At the end of the 2015 season he completed his 1st state examination in medicine and drove as a stagiaire with the UCI WorldTeam Giant-Alpecin , for which he finished the classic Paris-Tours as 35th and thus as the best German. The team gave him a regular contract for 2016 and 2017.

On January 23, 2016, Walscheid - like his teammates John Degenkolb , Warren Barguil , Ramon Sinkeldam , Chad Haga and Fredrik Ludvigsson - was injured in an accident during a training drive near Calpe, Spain , and sustained a broken hand and shin.

After his recovery, Walscheid was second in the sprint of the main field of the German road championships behind André Greipel . In October 2016, he won the third stage in the sprint of the Tour of Hainan , after finishing second on the first stage because he cheered too early. This stage win was his first win in a race hors categorie . He then won four more stages of the tour in the sprint.

Max Walscheid at the victory of the Münsterland-Giro 2018

In 2017 Walscheid won a stage of the Tour of Denmark for Team Sunweb and in 2018 a stage of the Tour de Yorkshire . On October 3, 2018, he won the Sparkassen-Münsterland-Giro ahead of John Degenkolb and Nils Politt . In 2019 he won the Omloop van het Houtland . In 2020 he switched to the NTT Pro Cycling Team and won two stages and the points classification of the Tour de Langkawi .

On August 18, 2020, his racing team NTT announced that they had included Walscheid in the 107th Tour de France 2020 and that he will thus celebrate his debut on the tour from August 29 to September 20, 2020.

successes

2014

2015

2016

2017

2018

2019

2020

Grand Tour placements

Grand Tour 2018 2019
Maglia Rosa Giro d'Italia - -
Yellow jersey Tour de France - -
Red jersey Vuelta a España 156 137

Teams

Web links

Commons : Max Walscheid  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. a b For Walscheid a dream comes true. radsport-news.com, October 15, 2015, accessed November 16, 2015 .
  2. ^ WHG Alumni , homepage of the Werner-Heisenberg-Gymnasium, accessed on April 11, 2019.
  3. radsport-news.com - Degenkolb and team mates hit by car in training camp. radsport-news.com, April 23, 2015, accessed March 30, 2016 .
  4. This time Walscheid completes the lead-out of his team. radsport-news.com, October 24, 2016, accessed October 24, 2016 .
  5. Walscheid celebrates tour debut: "This is the moment I've been waiting for". August 18, 2020, accessed on August 18, 2020 .