Nikias Arndt

Nikias Arndt
	Nikias Arndt (2017)
To person
Date of birth	November 18, 1991
nation	Germany
discipline	Road / train
To the team
Current team	Sunweb
function	driver
Most important successes
	Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race 2017; one stage Giro d'Italia 2016; one stage Vuelta a España 2019
	Last updated: June 17, 2020

Nikias Arndt (born November 18, 1991 in Buchholz in the Nordheide ) is a German racing cyclist . He is the winner of a stage of the Giro d'Italia 2016 and the Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race 2017.

Athletic career

In the junior classes, Arndt was primarily successful in track cycling . In 2006 he became German youth champion in the points race and in 2007 in the single pursuit . He also won the silver medal in the Criterion on the streets of the 2007 European Youth Olympics in Belgrade .

In 2008 Arndt won the overall ranking of the “Cup of Grudziadz Town President” in Poland in the junior class. In the following year he won two parts of the junior peace run , one stage each at the "Driedaagse van Axel" and the Lower Saxony tour . At the Junior World Championships in Moscow , he finished fourth in the individual time trial , and on the track, he won the bronze medal in the Omnium and in the team pursuit . In 2011, Arndt won the overall ranking of the Rad-Bundesliga .

Between 2010 and 2012 Arndt drove for the German LKT Team Brandenburg and during this time he won four stages of the Tour of Thuringia and, as a driver of the German national team, one stage of the Tour de l'Avenir . In 2011 he became German champion in the single and team pursuit of the elite.

For the 2013 season he switched to the Dutch UCI ProTeam Argos-Shimano , for which he was able to achieve his first major international success on the road in the mass sprint of the third stage of the Arctic Race of Norway . In August and September 2013 he drove his first Grand Tour , the Vuelta a España , in which he finished third in the mass sprint on the 21st stage in Madrid. In 2014 and 2015 Arndt was second in the time trial at the German Road Championships and in 2015 in the road race.

His greatest success to date was the Giro d'Italia 2016 as the sprint winner of the final stage after distancing himself from Giacomo Nizzolo , who had hindered Sacha Modolo . Also in the sprint, he won the Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race in 2017 and thus his first one-day race of the UCI WorldTour , in which he was able to prevail in a 23-man front field.

In 2017, Nikias Arndt started a Tour de France for the first time . On the 19th stage he finished second behind Edvald Boasson Hagen , after the two riders had previously broken out of a 20-man breakaway group. At the Tour de France 2018 he started as a road captain for his team Sunweb with the task of implementing the tactics of the sporting management in the race. In 2019 he won the eighth stage of the Vuelta a España .

successes

Street

2010

a stage Cinturón Ciclista a Mallorca
one stage tour of Thuringia
Overall rating and a stage Tour of Alanya

2011

one stage tour of Thuringia
a stage Tour de l'Avenir
Overall ranking Rad-Bundesliga

2012

one stage of the Istrian Spring Trophy
Overall ranking and two stages of the Tour de Berlin
one stage tour of Thuringia

2013

a stage and junior competition Arctic Race of Norway

2014

a stage of the Critérium du Dauphiné
German championships - individual time trial

2015

2016

a stage of the Giro d'Italia

2017

Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race

2019

a stage Vuelta a España

train

2009

German Champion - Single Pursuit (Juniors)
German champions - team pursuit (juniors) with Tobias Barkschat , Michel Koch and Lars Telschow
World Championship - Team Pursuit (Juniors) with Lucas Liß , Christopher Muche and Kersten Thiele
World Championship - Omnium (Juniors)