Philipp Walsleben

Philipp Walsleben, Ronde van Limburg 2015

Philipp Walsleben at a cyclocross race in Overijse in 2008

Philipp Walsleben (born November 19, 1987 in Potsdam ) is a German racing cyclist .

Career

Walsleben achieved his greatest successes in cyclocross . So he was nine times German cyclo-cross champion , including six times in the elite , once in the U23 and twice in the juniors. In the 2008/2009 season he was first European and later world champion in the U23 .

In line with this specialization, Walsleben mainly drove in cycling teams that are mainly involved in cycling. From 2009 to 2017 he drove for the Belgian UCI Continental Team BKCP-Powerplus . With this team he was also able to achieve success in road cycling . So he won u. a. 2013 a section and the overall ranking of the international stage race Baltic Chain Tour .

The 2013/14 season was Walsleben's most successful cyclo-cross season. He has made it onto the podium several times in the World Cup and thus asserted himself among the top three in the overall standings. In addition, he was able to become German champion in the elite for the fourth time.

In November 2017 Walsleben ended his career as a cross rider in order to devote more time to road cycling. He joined the cycling Bundesliga team PS Team Thuringia . For this team he won the overall ranking of the Bałtyk-Karkonosze Tour in May 2018 . He also won the overall ranking of the 2018 cycling Bundesliga .

successes

Cyclocross

2004/2005

• German Champion (Juniors)
• German Champion (Juniors)

2006/2007

• German Champion (U23)

2007/2008

• Super prestige Veldrit Gieten Gieten (U23)
• GVA Trofee Veldrijden Niel (U23)
• Super prestige Gavere
• GVA Trofee Verldrjden Hasselt
• UCI World Cup, Milan (U23)

2008/2009

• Stevens Cyclocross Cup Hamburg
• Cross in Park Berlin
• Superprestige, Ruddervoorde (U23)
• UCI World Cup Tabor (U23)
• Koppenbergcross Oudenaarde (U23)
• European Champion (U23)
• World Cup Pijnacker (U23)
• Superprestige Gavere (U23)
• Grote Prijs van Hasselt Hasselt (U23)
• Superprestige, Hamme-Zogge (U23)
• Frankfurter Rad-Cross Frankfurt am Main
• Grote Prijs Rouwmoer Essen (U23)
• World Cup, Heusden-Zolder (U23)
• Superprestige Diegem (U23)
• Grote Prijs Sven Nys (U23)
• German champions
• World Cup Roubaix (U23)
• Cyclocross World Champion (U23)
• Superprestige Hoogstraten (U23)
• Superprestige Vorselaar (U23)

2009/2010

• International bike cross Frankfurt am Main
• German champions

2010/2011

• German champions

2012/2013

• German champions

2013/2014

• Supercross Baden
• German champions
• International Cyclocross Rucphen Rucphen

2015/2016

• German champion in Vechta

Street

2011

• a stage Wed-Août Bretonne

2013

• one stage Tour Alsace
• Overall ranking and one stage Baltic Chain Tour

2016

• Mountain classification Czech Cycling Tour

2017

• Mountain classification Tour du Limousin

2018

• Overall ranking and one stage of the Bałtyk-Karkonosze Tour
• Overall ranking Rad-Bundesliga

Teams

• 2006 Notebooksbilliger.de
• 2007 Heinz von Heiden-Focus
• 2008 Palmans-Cras
• 2009 BKCP-Powerplus
• 2010 BKCP-Powerplus
• 2011 BKCP-Powerplus
• 2012 BKCP-Powerplus
• 2013 BKCP-Powerplus
• 2014 BKCP-Powerplus
• 2015 BKCP-Powerplus
• 2016 Observer Corendon
• 2017 Observer Corendon
• 2018 P&S Team Thuringia
• 2019 Corendon Circus

Web links

Commons : Philipp Walsleben  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Philipp Walsleben in the database of Radsportseiten.net
• Philipp Walsleben in the ProCyclingStats.com database

Individual evidence

1. ^ Veit Hammer: Cyclocross-DM: Walsleben and Kupfernagel in front. In: velomotion.de. January 12, 2014, accessed May 22, 2018 . 
2. ↑ Philipp Walsleben ends cross-career. In: rad-net.de. November 30, 2017. Retrieved December 13, 2017 . 
3. ↑ Walsleben: "I want to help the team improve". In: radsport-news.com. January 22, 2018, accessed January 22, 2018 . 
4. ↑ Huppertz wins Bundesliga degree at Bilster Berg - Walsleben overall winner. In: rad-net.de. October 7, 2018, accessed December 15, 2018 .