Raphael Schweda

Raphael Schweda
	Raphael Schweda in 2002 on the Tour of Flanders
To person
Nickname	Rapha
Date of birth	April 17, 1976
nation	Germany
discipline	Street
End of career	2003
Team (s)
1999-2000 ; 2001-2003	Team Nürnberger ; Team Coast / Bianchi

Raphael Schweda (born April 17, 1976 in Rostock ) is a former German cyclist and team manager.

After Schweda won a stage of the Bayern Rundfahrt , in 1998 the U23 edition of the Eschborn-Frankfurt City Loop and the German U23 championship sheep in road races and was third in the U23 European championship in road races, he received a contract with the Nürnberger team . For this team he won the royal stage of the Rhineland-Palatinate Tour in 1999 and the one-day race around Nuremberg's old town in 2000 . His most important career placement also fell during this time, when he finished second in the mass sprint of the HEW Cyclassics cycling world cup race. Schweda then moved to Team Coast , with whom he competed and finished three Grand Tours : the Vuelta a España in 2001 and 2003 as 131st and 104th and the Giro d'Italia 2002 , in which he was also stage runner-up, as 78th Classic Paris-Roubaix came in 11th in 2002 .

After the end of his active career at the end of the 2003 season, he became team manager at Winfix Arnold Sicherheit or its successor team Wiesenhof-Felt until its dissolution at the end of the 2007 season.

Schweda is the founder and CEO of henara GmbH , a company that develops software and billing services in the healthcare market .