Paul Voss

Paul Voss
	Paul Voss (2015)
To person
Date of birth	March 26, 1986
nation	Germany
discipline	Street
End of career	2016
Societies)
2005	Team Wiesenhof U23
Team (s)
2006 ; 2007–2008 ; 2009–2010 ; 2011–2012 ; 2013–2014 ; 2015–2016	Team Heinz von Heiden ; Team 3C-Gruppe Lamonta ; Team Milram ; Endura Racing ; Team NetApp-Endura ; Bora-Argon 18
Team (s) as sporting director
2017 ; 2018	Team Wiggins ; LKT Team Brandenburg
	Last updated: November 15, 2017

Paul Voss (born March 26, 1986 in Rostock ) is a former German cyclist .

Career

In the junior classes, Voss devoted himself to road cycling , especially cyclocross and was German champion in the junior class in this discipline in 2004 and second in the U23 in 2005. After winning the silver medal at the U23 European Road Championships in 2008, he received his first contract with a UCI ProTeam in 2009 , the German team Milram , for which he drove until its dissolution at the end of the 2010 season. He then moved to the British Continental Team Endura Racing .

For Team Milram he contested his first “ Grand Tour ” at the Vuelta a España 2009 and finished the race 99th overall. The following year he was able to achieve his first victory in the UCI ProTour in the opening time trial of the Tour of Catalonia 2010 and defend the overall lead of this stage race for another day.

Voss broke his shoulder at a World Cup cross race in Zolder in December 2010. Barely a month after starting the 2011 road season, he fell out again with a broken collarbone during the first stage of the Settimana Internazionale di Coppi e Bartali at the end of March. In 2011 he won his first international stage race with the Cinturó de l'Empordà .

After Endura Racing in 2013 with the German Team NetApp for Professional Continental team Team NetApp-Endura , later Bora-Argon 18 , merged, Voss was part of that team and denied other Grand Tours . On the first stage of the 2016 Tour de France , he won the dotted jersey of the leader in the mountain classification through a solo trip over two categorized climbs . The first edition of Rad am Ring, an international one-day race , which was held shortly after the Tour de France, was won by Voss after a solo trip over 70 kilometers.

After he did not receive a new contract for the 2017 season, he ended his international road career and only planned one more season as an active cyclist. Instead, Voss founded its own Paul Voss Development Team (PVDT) and is dedicated to building it up. He was also in 2017 sports director at Team Wiggins . In October 2017, the UCI Continental Team LKT Team Brandenburg signed him up as Sports Director for the 2018 season.

From 2017-2019 he worked at ARD as a co-commentator for the live broadcast of the Tour de France . Together with Florian Kurz , he accompanied the races during the broadcast on Sender One from a studio in Saarbrücken.

Since July 20, 2018, Voss has been doing the cycling podcast Besenwagen together with Andreas Stauff and Bastian Marks , in which all facets of cycling are discussed, sometimes with guests from the professional field.