Patrik Sinkewitz

Patrik Sinkewitz
	Patrik Sinkewitz at Around the Henninger Tower 2006
To person
Date of birth	20th October 1980
nation	Germany
discipline	Street
End of career	2014
doping
2007 ; 2014 ; 2017	one-year ban due to testosterone; eight-year ban due to recGH; four -year ban extension ( violation of conditions)
Team (s)
2001–2005 ; 2006–2007 ; 2009 ; 2010 ; 2011 ; 2012–2014	Quick Step-Davitamon ; T-Mobile ; PSK Whirlpool ; ISD-Neri ; Farnese Vini-Neri Sottoli ; Meridiana Kamen Team
Most important successes
	Germany tour 2004 ; around the Henninger tower 2007
	Last updated: December 7, 2017

Patrik Sinkewitz (* 20th October 1980 in Fulda ) is a former German professional - cyclist . He was banned twice for doping , in 2017 his ban was extended to 2024 for violating the start ban imposed on him.

Career start

Patrik Sinkewitz began road cycling at RC07 Fulda . Later he drove for the TEAG Team Köstritzer , where he was trained by the three-time world railroad champion Gerald Mortag .

In 2001 he moved to the Italian GS1 team Mapei-Quickstep . After the dissolution of this team, Sinkewitz moved like many other team members to the Belgian successor team Quickstep-Davitamon . He achieved his greatest success during this time: He won the Germany Tour 2004 , in which he prevailed against Jan Ullrich , among others , when he took over the yellow jersey on the royal stage from Wangen im Allgäu to St. Anton am Arlberg and it was up to At the end of the Germany tour in the destination Leipzig no longer gave up. He then took seventh place in the Tour de Suisse .

From 2006 to 2007 he drove in the T-Mobile team . He drove his first Tour de France for this team in 2006 and was involved as a helper in helping Andreas Klöden to finish second overall. Sinkewitz finished 23rd in the final ranking. In 2007 he won the Frankfurt one-day race around the Henninger Tower .

After the 8th stage of the 2007 Tour de France on July 15, Patrik Sinkewitz collided with a spectator while driving to his hotel in Tignes . Sinkewitz then had to give up further participation in the tour because of several facial fractures and injuries to his shoulders and knees. The viewer was also seriously injured, was in a coma and was at times in mortal danger.

First doping ban

In 2000, the sports physician Georg Huber, who worked at the Freiburg University Hospital, tried to obtain an exemption from the UCI for Sinkewitz's increased hematocrit levels . This was refused. In the same year, Sinkewitz had a positive doping result. The cause was the local anesthetic benzocaine. Huber explained the finding with the use of lozenges that were taken due to a throat infection. This declaration was accepted by the Association of German Cyclists (BDR) without further inquiries.

On July 18, 2007, the Association of German Cyclists (BDR) announced that a significantly increased testosterone - epitestosterone quotient had been found in the A-sample of an unannounced training control in the Pyrenees at Sinkewitz on June 8, 2007 , since the limit value of 4: 1 with a value of 24: 1 was clearly exceeded. The BDR was informed on the same day by the National Anti-Doping Agency NADA of the positive doping result. The T-Mobile team then suspended Sinkewitz. As a consequence of this doping allegation, the public broadcasters Das Erste and ZDF withdrew from the live coverage of the tour, and Sat.1 took over the broadcast the next day.

On July 31, 2007, Patrik Sinkewitz confessed to having been doping with the Jenapharm drug “Testogel” and refrained from opening the B sample . His cycling team then fired him. He was facing a two-year ban. However, due to his confession and his collaboration in investigating the doping affair , he was only banned for one year.

Comeback and renewed suspension

For the 2009 season, Sinkewitz signed a one-year contract with the Czech Professional Continental Team PSK Whirlpool author after his suspension expired . Sinkewitz published the results of his blood tests arranged by the UCI on his personal website , which was criticized by road cyclist Markus Fothen , mountain bike Olympic champion Sabine Spitz and Darmstadt sports sociologist Karl-Heinz Bette as a “show” or “symbolic politics”.

In 2010, Sinkewitz, as a member of the ISD-Neri team, achieved the most important victory since his comeback in the one-day race at the Giro di Romagna .

On March 18, 2011, it was announced that Sinkewitz tested positive again on February 27 of the same year. According to the World Cycling Association UCI, growth hormones were detected in a blood test. Sinkewitz has been temporarily suspended. As a repeat offender, he was threatened with lifelong suspension. On June 19, 2012, however, Sinkewitz was acquitted of the charge of doping by the German Sports Arbitration Court (DIS) and his suspension was lifted. The sports court stated that the limit values for the hormone hGH set by the World Anti-Doping Agency were not sufficiently reliable.

The National Anti Doping Agency NADA appealed to the International Court of Justice for Sports (CAS) against the doping acquittal in 2012 . This banned Sinkewitz by judgment of February 24, 2014 for eight years and followed the NADA's demonstration that the artificial growth hormone recGH was detectable in Sinkewitz's blood sample.

End of 2017 Sinkewitz doping ban by the UCI was extended for another four years until 2024, when he on despite ban in July 2017 Jedermannrennen Giro delle Dolomiti had participated .