Maximilian Schachmann
Maximilian Schachmann (2018) | |
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Date of birth | January 9, 1994 |
nation | Germany |
discipline | Street |
Driver type | All-rounder |
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Current team | Bora-hansgrohe |
function | driver |
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2006–2010 2011–2012 |
Marzahner RSC Berlin '94 SC Berlin |
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2013 2014 2015 2016 2017–2018 2019- |
Thüringer Energie Team Development Team Giant-Shimano AWT greenway Klein Constantia Quick-Step Floors Bora-hansgrohe |
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Last updated: March 14, 2020 |
Maximilian Schachmann (born January 9, 1994 in Berlin ) is a German racing cyclist . He is considered to be a good time trialist with strengths on the mountain, who also wins races in the sprint of smaller groups.
Athletic career
As a junior
In 2011 Maximilian Schachmann was junior runner-up in road racing ; at the European Road Championships for Juniors in the individual time trial , he finished ninth. In 2012 he finished third in the junior individual time trial of the road world championships. In the individual time trial of the U23 European Road Championships, he finished ninth again in both 2012 and 2013. At the UCI Road World Championships 2014 in Ponferrada , he finished fifth in the U23 individual time trial. The following year he won the bronze medal at the U23 European championships in the individual time trial and the silver medal at the following world championships . In 2016 he became German U23 time trial champion and won his first international U23 race as a soloist on a mountain finish at the Giro della Valle d'Aosta and shortly afterwards his first international elite race with the overall ranking of the Tour Alsace . At the U23 World Championships in 2016 , he won the silver medal in the time trial.
In the elite
Quick-Step
For the 2017 and 2018 seasons he received a professional contract with Quick-Step Floors . For his new team he achieved 10th place in the one-day race Le Samyn and 19th place in the overall standings at the Tour de Romandie . In the first time the World Tour belonging Tour of California , he finished 15th Place. In a fall during the Tour of Poland in August 2017, Schachmann broke his right foot several times and he had to end the season.
His first victory in a WorldTour race came in 2018 on the 6th stage of the Tour of Catalonia , which he won in a two-man sprint after a long escape. At the Flèche Wallonne he was caught up on the wall of Huy 150 meters from the finish as the last of a breakaway group and achieved his best result in a classic in eighth place . In the same year he contested his first Grand Tour with the Giro d'Italia 2018 , in which he wore the white jersey of the leader in the junior competition after the first five stages . Because of respiratory problems that had occurred since the second day of rest, he then fell significantly behind in the overall ranking. On the 18th stage with a mountain finish at Prato Nevoso , however, he managed to win his first Grand Tour stage victory with a few seconds ahead of his last escorts from a group of twelve who had run away at the beginning of the section. At the Deutschland Tour 2018 he won the 2nd stage in a sprint of a four-man breakaway group and took over the overall lead for one day and finally came third in the overall standings.
Bora-hansgrohe
For the 2019 season, Schachmann switched to the Bora-hansgrohe team . After falling back from the top group due to a defect at the Strade Bianche the day before , he won the one-day race hors categorie Gran Premio Industria & Artigianato in a two-man sprint ahead of Mattia Cattaneo , with which he was able to pull away on the last climb about 10 kilometers from the finish. As in the previous year, Schachmann then won a stage of the Tour of Catalonia, after he pulled away from his companions 11 kilometers from the finish after a long escape and saved a 13-second lead at the finish. In the Tour of the Basque Country Schachmann won the opening time trial and two more stages at the head of smaller front fields before he had to hand over the lead to his teammate Emanuel Buchmann on the king's stage . He eventually won the points classification and finished tenth overall. In the following Ardennes classics he was fifth in the Amstel Gold Race and the Flèche Wallonne and third in Liège – Bastogne – Liège . In June of that year he was German road champion at the Sachsenring . On his subsequent Tour de France debut , he fell in the individual time trial of the 13th stage and broke the metacarpal bone of his left hand and did not start the 14th stage .
In March 2020, Schachmann won the first stage from Paris – Nice in a sprint of a four-man leading group. He defended the overall lead of the race, which was shortened by one day due to the COVID-19 pandemic, also on the mountain finish of the final section and thus became the first German overall winner after Tony Martin in 2011.
After a break from racing in 2020, Schachmann finished third in the Strade Bianche and 13th overall in the Tour of Poland . In mid-August, he fell on the Tour of Lombardy and broke his collarbone after colliding with a car in the final of the race that had hit the track for unknown reasons. However, he finished the race and finished seventh.
Honors
In 2012 Maximilian Schachmann was named German junior cyclist of the year , and in 2018 he was elected cyclist of the year .
successes
- 2012
- Junior World Championship - road racing
- 2015
- European Championship (U23) - individual time trial
- World Championship (U23) - individual time trial
- 2016
- German champion (U23) - individual time trial
- a stage of the Giro della Valle d'Aosta
- Overall ranking, one stage and junior ranking Tour Alsace
- World Championship (U23) - individual time trial
- 2018
- one stage tour of Catalonia
- a stage of the Giro d'Italia
- European Championship - Individual Time Trial
- a stage Germany tour
- World champion - team time trial
- 2019
- Gran Premio Industria & Artigianato
- one stage tour of Catalonia
- three stages and points scoring Tour of the Basque Country
- German champion - road race
- 2020
- Overall classification and a Paris-Nice stage
Grand Tour placements
Grand Tour | 2018 | 2019 |
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Giro d'Italia | 31 | - |
Tour de France | - | DNF |
Vuelta a España | - | - |
Web links
- Maximilian Schachmann in the Radsportseiten.net database
- Maximilian Schachmann in the ProCyclingStats.com database
- Maximilian Schachmann in the rad-net.de database
Individual evidence
- ↑ Eric Gutglück: Schachmann sets an exclamation point against the great. In: radsport-news.com. February 18, 2018, accessed February 19, 2018 .
- ↑ a b Schachmann: Giro stage winner instead of a business student. In: radsport-news.com. May 24, 2018. Retrieved May 24, 2018 .
- ^ Giro Valle d'Aosta: Schachmann wins mountain finish. rad-net.de, July 15, 2016, accessed on July 15, 2016 .
- ↑ Schachmann goes to Etixx-Quick Step. sport1.de, July 19, 2016, accessed on May 1, 2017 .
- ↑ Porte "a little shocked" about overall victory in French-speaking Switzerland. radsport-news.com, April 30, 2017, accessed May 1, 2017 .
- ↑ Bennett is only unable to repel the attacks on the podium. radsport-news.com, May 21, 2017, accessed May 22, 2017 .
- ↑ Season end for Maximilian Schachmann after a fall on the Tour of Poland. In: rad-net.de. August 14, 2017. Retrieved August 15, 2017 .
- ↑ Schachmann gets his first professional victory as an outlier. In: radsport-news.com. March 21, 2018, accessed March 24, 2018 .
- ↑ Alaphilippe defeats Valverde on the Mur, chessman eighth. In: radsport-news.com. January 25, 2018, accessed April 18, 2018 .
- ↑ For Schachmann, it's all about getting through. In: radsport-news.com. May 22, 2018. Retrieved May 26, 2018 .
- ↑ Chessman: Performance limited by breathing problems. In: radsport-news.com. May 22, 2018. Retrieved May 24, 2018 .
- ↑ D-Tour: Chessman controls Dumoulin like an old hand. In: radsport-news.com. August 24, 2018. Retrieved August 26, 2018 .
- ↑ Schachmann processes Strade's disappointment as best as possible. In: radsport-news.com. March 10, 2019, accessed March 10, 2019 .
- ↑ Chessman unpacks the hammer and wins solo. In: radsport-news.com. March 29, 2019, accessed April 13, 2019 .
- ↑ Buchmann storms into a new league with a 20-kilometer solo. In: radsport-news.com. April 12, 2019, accessed April 13, 2019 .
- ↑ Tour-off for Schachmann after a fall in the time trial. In: radsport-news.com. July 19, 2019. Retrieved July 19, 2019 .
- ↑ Chessman with the right nose for the yellow jersey. In: radsport-news.com. March 8, 2020, accessed March 14, 2020 .
- ^ Cycling: Maximilian Schachmann wins Paris-Nice. In: Spiegel Online . Retrieved March 14, 2020 .
- ↑ Schachmann takes overall victory at Paris-Nice. In: sueddeutsche.de . March 14, 2020, accessed March 14, 2020 .
- ↑ Chessman fractures his collarbone. In: classic.rad-net.de. August 15, 2020, accessed August 15, 2020 .
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Chessman, Maximilian |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German racing cyclist |
DATE OF BIRTH | January 9, 1994 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |