René Haselbacher

René Haselbacher

Nightrace 07 in Waidhofen ad Ybbs
To person
Nickname	Hasi
Date of birth	15th September 1977
nation	Austria
discipline	Street
Driver type	sprinter
To the team
Current team	resigned
function	driver
Societies)
1996-1998	Elk house , Tel mineral wool
Team (s)
1999–2006 2007–2008 2009–2010	Gerolsteiner Astana Vorarlberg-Corratec
Most important successes
Austrian time trial champion 2000 Rhineland-Palatinate Tour 2006 stage victory Austria Tour 2008
Last updated: June 27, 2011

René Haselbacher (born September 15, 1977 in Vienna ) is a former Austrian cyclist .

Athletic career

From the age of eight to ten, René Haselbacher played football . At 14, I switched to cycling. In 1996 he became a professional cyclist and initially rode for the two Austrian teams Elk-Haus and Tel-Mineralwolle.

From 1999 Haselbacher drove for the German Gerolsteiner team under the direction of Hans-Michael Holczer . Haselbacher celebrated his greatest success in April 2006 with the overall victory of the Rhineland-Palatinate Tour . In 2007 and 2008 he drove for the Astana team . The sprinter started for the Austrian team Vorarlberg-Corratec in the 2009 season . On July 1, 2010 René Haselbacher left this team after losing his license as Pro Continental status.

In February 2011 Haselbacher ended his career after an unsuccessful team search. He then moved to South Africa, his wife's home.

Haselbacher now lives half of the year with his wife and son in Cape Town and the other half in Austria and runs a company with his wife for the design and manufacture of individual cycling clothing.

successes

1998

• Austrian cyclist of the year

1999

• one stage Dekra Cup

2000

• Austrian time trial champion

2002

• Austrian state champion street
• one stage tour of Sweden

2003

• a stage Rhineland-Palatinate tour

2006

• One stage and overall ranking of the Rhineland-Palatinate Tour

2007

• 2nd place Algarve tour

2008

• one stage tour of Austria

2010

• one stage Giro del Capo

Individual evidence

1. ↑ derStandard.at
2. ^ STANDARD Verlagsgesellschaft mbH: René Haselbacher: A reader without fear, with censure . In: derStandard.at . ( derstandard.at [accessed on April 10, 2017]).

Web links

• René Haselbacher in the Radsportseiten.net database
• René Haselbacher in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )