Pascal Ackermann

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Pascal Ackermann Road cycling
Pascal Ackermann (2018)
Pascal Ackermann (2018)
To person
Date of birth 17th January 1994 (age 26)
nation GermanyGermany Germany
discipline Street
Driver type sprinter
To the team
Current team Bora-hansgrohe
function driver
Societies)
2004–2012 RV Edelweiß Kandel
Team (s)
2013–2016
2017– 		rad-net Rose Team
Bora-hansgrohe
Most important successes
UCI WorldTour one-day race
Prudential RideLondon & Surrey Classic 2018
Eschborn – Frankfurt 2019
Grand Tours
two stages of the Giro d'Italia 2019
UEC European Road Championships
2019 bronze - road race
Last updated: August 12, 2019

Pascal Ackermann (born January 17, 1994 in Kandel ) is a German racing cyclist . In 2019 he was the first German in the history of the Giro d'Italia to win the points classification ( Maglia ciclamino ).

Athletic career

As a junior driver, Pascal Ackermann was successful on the track : In 2011 he became two-time German junior champion in the 1000 meter time trial and in the team sprint , together with Benjamin König and Philip Hindes . At the junior European championships in Anadia , Portugal , he and the two of them became vice European champion in the team sprint (U23), and a few weeks later junior world champion . Ackermann narrowly missed another medal in the Omnium in fourth. In 2012 Ackermann became Junior European Champion in the Omnium on the Velódromo Nacional in Anadia . In the same year he won the German junior championship title in the points race and was second in the scratch in the elite .

Ackermann was also able to achieve initial successes on the road : In June 2011, for example, he won a stage of the international 3-stage tour of the junior cyclists in Frankfurt am Main , took second place in the prologue of the Swiss stage race Tour du Pays du Vaud and made the decision also the sprint rating of this race for itself. In September 2011 he started the junior race at the road world championships, but could not finish the race.

In 2013 he joined the German UCI Continental team rad-net Rose and focused on road cycling. At the Polish round trip Szlakiem Grodów Piastowskich in 2015 he achieved his first international success in the elite category in the mass sprint of the second stage. 2016 was Pascal Ackermann in Berlin German U23 champion in the road race . At the 2016 road world championships, he finished second in the mass sprint, just behind Kristoffer Halvorsen in the U23 road race.

In 2017 Ackermann received a contract with the German UCI WorldTeam Bora-hansgrohe . In April he was supported in the sprint of the Scheldeprij by his captain Peter Sagan fifth and won the sprint ranking of the Tour of the Alps .

In the 2018 season, after second places in the sprint finishes of the Hors Catégorie races Three Days of De Panne and Scheldeprijs , Ackermann achieved his first victory in the UCI WorldTour with the sprint victory of the final stage of the Tour de Romandie . He achieved a second stage win in a WorldTour race on the 2nd stage of the Critérium du Dauphiné . A little later, Ackermann became German road master in Einhausen . Ackermann won his first one-day race of the WorldTour in the mass sprint of the Prudential RideLondon & Surrey Classic 2018 . In the following weeks he won the first two stages of the Tour of Poland , the Brussels Cycling Classic and the Grand Prix de Fourmies . Due to these successes, he climbed from 190th place in the UCI rankings in March 2018 to 35th place, making him the best-placed German driver before the 2018 UCI Road World Championships . He closed the season with a stage win in the Tour of Guangxi .

In spring 2019, Ackermann won the two one-day races Clásica de Almería and Bredene Koksijde Classic . On May 1st, he won the WorldTour race Eschborn – Frankfurt in the sprint of the field. At the subsequent Giro d'Italia 2019 he won the second and fifth stages in the sprint of the main field. Because of these two stage wins, a second and three third places, Ackermann decided the points classification ( Maglia ciclamino ) for himself and is the first German to win this classification at the Giro.

Honors

Ackermann with the sign of the path named after him
At the German rail championships in 2014

In January 2016, a path in Ackermann's home town of Minfeld was named Pascal-Ackermann-Weg after him. In the public vote on the website rad-net.de of the Association of German Cyclists , he was named “Cyclist of the Year” 2018.

successes

Street

2011

2012

2015

2016

2017

2018

2019

2020

train

2011

2012

Grand Tour placements

Grand Tour 2019
Maglia Rosa Giro d'Italia 122
Yellow jersey Tour de France -
Red jersey Vuelta a España -

Web links

Commons : Pascal Ackermann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rick Zabel is fifth in the U19 World Championship race. rad-net.de, September 24, 2011, accessed on April 22, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Everything went perfectly for Ackermann in Polkowice. radsport-news.com, May 7, 2015, accessed May 8, 2015 .
  3. ↑ Halvorsen snatches the gold medal from Ackermann. radsport-news.com, October 13, 2016, accessed October 14, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Learned a lot from Peter Sagan at the Scheldt Prize. radsport-news.com, April 19, 2017, accessed April 22, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Tour of the Alps: Thomas overall winner - Ackermann wins sprint classification. rad-net.de, April 21, 2017, accessed on April 22, 2017 .
  6. ↑ Ackermann is rewarded for the agony in Geneva. In: radsport-news.com. April 29, 2018. Retrieved April 29, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Ackermann does his duty in Einhausen. In: radsport-news.com. Retrieved July 1, 2018 .
  8. ^ Ackermann in London faster than Viviani and Nizzolo. In: radsport-news.com. July 29, 2018. Retrieved July 29, 2018 .
  9. ↑ Pascal Ackermann. In: dataride.uci.ch. March 18, 2018, accessed September 3, 2018 .
  10. ↑ Pascal Ackermann. In: dataride.uci.ch. September 2, 2018, accessed September 3, 2018 .
  11. ↑ Ackermann sets course for the Giro in top form. In: radsport-news.com. May 1, 2019, accessed May 1, 2019 .
  12. ↑ Giro d'Italia 2019: Pascal Ackermann makes victory in points classification perfect. In: eurosport.de. February 6, 2019, accessed June 2, 2019 .
  13. ↑ Minfeld names the street after U23 vice world champion Pascal Ackermann - cycling at rad-net.de. In: rad-net.de. March 25, 2013, accessed January 9, 2017 .
  14. ↑ Vogel, Ackermann and Ludwig are the “rad-net cyclist of the year” 2018 - cycling at. In: rad-net.de. June 2, 2019, accessed December 30, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Ackermann, Pascal
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German racing cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH 17th January 1994
PLACE OF BIRTH Candelabra