Rick Zabel

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Rick Zabel Road cycling
Rick Zabel (2019)
Rick Zabel (2019)
To person
Date of birth 7th December 1993
nation GermanyGermany Germany
discipline Street
To the team
Current team Israel start-up nation
function driver
Societies)
2005-2007
2008-2011 		RSV Unna 1968
RSC Turbine Erfurt
Team (s)
2012–2013
2014–2016
2017–2019
2020 		Rabobank Development Team
BMC Racing Team
Team Katusha Alpecin
Israel Start-Up Nation
Last updated: June 2, 2020

Rick Zabel (born December 7, 1993 in Unna ) is a German racing cyclist .

Athletic career

In 2009 Rick Zabel, who started for the “RSC Turbine Erfurt”, won the German junior champion in two-man team driving at the Albert Richter bike stadium in Cologne with Thomas Schneider from Cologne . In the following year he won the junior championship title in two-man team driving (also with Schneider) at the Deutsche Bahn championships in Cottbus , and he finished third in the points test and in the team pursuit with the four-man of the Thuringia regional association . In September 2010, Rick Zabel was named "Junior Sportsman of the Month". In 2011 he won Around Cologne and Around the Eschborn-Frankfurt Financial Center in the U19 age group. At the 2011 UCI Road World Championships in Copenhagen , he finished fifth in the junior road race.

Up went the summer of 2011 Zabel the Erfurt Sportgymnasium Pierre de Coubertin-Gymnasium . He left high school without a high school diploma in order to sign his first contract with an international cycling team , the Rabobank Continental Team , for 2012 . The greatest success in his first year in the adult division was winning the German Road Championship in the U23 class. In 2013 he won the U23 edition of the classic Tour of Flanders , part of the UCI Nations Cup, in the sprint of a larger top group.

In June 2013, Zabel signed a contract with the UCI WorldTeam BMC , which he took on in 2014. With the Giro d'Italia 2015 Zabel contested his first Grand Tour , which he finished 142nd overall. His first international elite success was the sprint victory on the third stage of the Tour of Austria 2015 , a race hors categorie . For the 2017 season he switched to the Katusha Alpecin team . On May 1st of that year he finished second at Eschborn-Frankfurt - All around the financial center behind his teammate Alexander Kristoff , to whom he had attracted the sprint to the finish.

In 2017 Rick Zabel started a Tour de France for the first time . In the rainy opening time trial in Düsseldorf , Zabel fell and tore his ligament. In the following stage he fell again, but was able to continue the tour and finished it in 145th place. In July 2018 he started again at the Tour de France . On the mountain stage to Alpe d'Huez , the waiting period was his undoing. Halfway through the stage he was so far behind that he had to leave the race early.

In November 2018, Rick Zabel fell during a training ride and broke his collarbone , so that he could not start in some of the races for which he was scheduled to participate. After racing again from the beginning of 2019, he suffered a concussion in a fall on the last leg of the Tour of Valencia in February , which was only diagnosed days later after he had given up on the UAE Tour , whereupon he had to pause again . He took part in races again from April and won his second race hors categorie in the sprint of the peloton with the second stage of the Tour de Yorkshire in early May . The Tour de France in 2019 could not finish Zabel since he fell ill after the tenth stage.

family

Rick Zabel is the son of the cyclist Erik Zabel and a grandson of Detlef Zabel .

Honors

  • September 2010: Junior Athlete of the Month .

successes

2009
2012
  • German champions German Champion - Road Race (U23)
2013
2014
2015
2019

Grand Tour placements

Grand Tour 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
Maglia Rosa Giro d'Italia 142 140 - - -
Yellow jersey Tour de France - - 145 DNF DNF
Red jersey Vuelta a España - - - - -
Legend: DNF: did not finish , abandoned or withdrawn from the race due to timeout.

Web links

Commons : Rick Zabel  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Thomas Schneider and Rick Zabel new German champions in the two-man team driving of the youth on koelnerradrennen.blog.de from August 10, 2009 ( Memento from July 25, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ a b Cycling , October 5, 2010
  3. ↑ Is Rick Zabel following in his father's footsteps? on radsport-news.com from April 27, 2011 ; Rick Zabel wins in Frankfurt on radsport-news.com
  4. ↑ Rick Zabel is already dreaming of a professional career at 17 on radsport-news.com on September 25, 2011
  5. ↑ Rabobank keeps zoon Erik Zabel on nu.nl September 21, 2011 (Dutch)
  6. ↑ radsport-news.com from September 9, 2012: Rick Zabel new U23 champion
  7. ↑ radsport-news.com of April 6, 2013: Rick Zabel wins U23 Tour of Flanders
  8. ↑ Rick Zabel rides for BMC from 2014 on radsport-news.com v. 3rd June 2013
  9. ↑ First professional victory for Rick Zabel sport1.de July 7, 2015
  10. ↑ Stuyven's chain robs Degenkolb of his chances of victory. radsport-news.com, May 1, 2017, accessed May 1, 2017 .
  11. ↑ Michael Ostermann: Rick Zabel - To Paris on his own. sportschau.de, July 3, 2017, accessed on September 4, 2017 .
  12. ↑ Sports: Tour de France: out for Marcel Kittel, Andre Greipel and Rick Zabel. In: tz.de. July 19, 2018, accessed July 22, 2018 .
  13. ↑ Zabel breaks his collarbone in a training fall. In: rad-net.de. November 14, 2018, accessed November 14, 2018 .
  14. ↑ Zabel: "Getting started with the classics will be very difficult". In: radsport-news.com. April 2, 2019, accessed April 2, 2019 .
  15. ↑ After spring full of setbacks, Zabel puts an exclamation mark. In: radsport-news.com. May 3, 2019, accessed May 4, 2019 .
  16. ↑ Rick Zabel got out of the Tour de France. In: rad-net.de. July 17, 2019, accessed July 17, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Zabel, Rick
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German racing cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH 7th December 1993
PLACE OF BIRTH Unna