Eschborn – Frankfurt
Eschborn – Frankfurt is a road bike race that, along with the Cyclassics in Hamburg and around Cologne, is one of the most important German one-day races . It has been held annually in the Rhine-Main area since 1962 . The event has been held on May 1st since 1968 . In addition to the elite race and the races in the junior classes, the supporting program also includes everyone's races and the inline skating competition Rhein-Main Skate-Challenge .
history
The race was initially organized under the name Rund um den Henninger-Turm by the Henninger Brewery and the Society for the Promotion of Cycling (founded in 1961 by the brothers Hermann and Erwin Moos).
The start and finish were initially on Hainer Weg in the Sachsenhausen district of Frankfurt near the Henninger Tower .
Until 1996, when the UCI redesigned the sports teams, an amateur race took place parallel to the professional race. Since then, a U23 race has been organized. In the 1966 race, the target photo technology, which had been requested by several foreign teams , was used for the first time .
Often there were also women's races, youth races and tandem races with blind people.
After the Binding brewery took over Henninger, the start and finish were relocated to the gates of the Binding brewery in Darmstädter Landstrasse, which is also in Sachsenhausen. The race ended at both destinations after a finish lap of approx. 5 km around the Henninger tower that had to be passed several times.
After the death of the two brothers (Erwin Moos died in autumn 2002, Hermann Moos in November 2004), Hermann Moos' son, Bernd Moos-Achenbach, continued the business of the Society for the Promotion of Cycling in the interests of his father and uncle.
After the previous main sponsor had withdrawn, the 2009 race took place under the name Eschborn-Frankfurt City Loop . The starting point was in Eschborn , the destination was in the Frankfurt settlement of Riedberg . The route through the Taunus remained.
In December 2009 the race was renamed again around the financial center Eschborn – Frankfurt . Since then, the race has led from Eschborn to the Alte Oper in Frankfurt, where target laps are completed on a four-kilometer circuit.
In 2015, the police canceled the race for security reasons after a Salafist couple under police surveillance was seen spying on the race track. The police seized weapons and explosives during the subsequent home search.
For the 2017 season, the race was included in the UCI WorldTour calendar starting with the 2017 season under the name Eschborn – Frankfurt “All about the financial center” . In January 2017, the race was organizing society for the promotion of cycling by the Tour de France tour operators Amaury Sport Organization adopted (ASO). In the run-up to the 2018 event, the race was renamed Eschborn-Frankfurt .
The race planned for May 1, 2020 was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany . The organizers checked with the responsible authorities and the world cycling association UCI the possibility of a postponement to a later date in September or October of the year. In June 2020 the event was finally canceled because it was not guaranteed.
The record winner of the race is the Norwegian Alexander Kristoff (2014, 2016, 2017 and 2018) with four successes.
winner
Professionals / elite
- from 2000
- until 1999
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U23
- 2019 Frederik Madsen
- 2018 Niklas Larsen
- 2017 Fabio Jakobsen
- 2016 Konrad Geßner
- 2015 canceled
- 2014 Mads Pedersen
- 2013 Lasse Norman Hansen
- 2012 Sven Erik Bystrøm
- 2011 Patrick Bercz
- 2010 Tino Thömel
- 2009 Jack Bobridge
- 2008 Stefan Denifl
- 2004 Marc de Maar
- 2003 Denis Titschenko
- 2002 Bernhard Kohl
- 2001 David Kopp
- 2000 Torsten Hiekmann
- 1999 Stephan Schreck
- 1998 Raphael Schweda
Everyone race
In parallel to the races of the professionals there is a race for everyone . From 2006 it was held over four distances: 102 kilometers through the Taunus and downtown Frankfurt; 74 kilometers flat, avoiding the slopes of the Taunus, but through Frankfurt; 63 kilometers mountainous, through the Taunus , but without the loop through Frankfurt; 35 kilometers flat without the slopes of the Taunus and not through Frankfurt. According to the organizer, more than 3,500 cyclists took part in 2007. The start and finish in 2006 and 2007 was the Main-Taunus-Zentrum in Sulzbach, west of Frankfurt. In 2012, the bike tour starting in Eschborn was carried out over 42, 70 and 103 kilometers.
Rhein-Main Skate Challenge
Since 2007 there has been an inline skating competition over the marathon distance and over 70 km on the route of the Velotour.
The race was held for the first time in 2007. The start and finish were in the Main-Taunus-Zentrum in Sulzbach . The 74 km race ran through the Taunus and downtown Frankfurt , and the 35 km race only through the Taunus.
In 2009 the start and finish of the race was moved to Eschborn . Only one competition over 42 km was held, which was also rated as the German Blade Challenge competition. The race ran through downtown Frankfurt and the Vordertaunus.
In 2010 an additional race over 70 km was held, which ran in two loops through Frankfurt city center and the Vordertaunus.
Since 2011, the 42 km race has been rated as the German Inline Cup .
In 2012, a third race over 21 km was held for the first time. The start was at the Alte Oper in Frankfurt and the finish in Eschborn . The cancellation of the cycle race also affected the Rhein-Main Skate Challenge in 2015.
Winners list
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| year | Winner | time | winner | time | |
| 2014 |
Katja Ulbrich -2-
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01:21:04 |
Gary Hekman
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01:10:08 | |
| 2013 |
Katja Ulbrich
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01:16:56 |
Victor Wilking
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01:05:45 | |
| 2012 |
Sabine Berg -2-
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01:15:56 |
 Severin Widmer
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01:04:16 | |
| 2011 |
Sabine Berg
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01:18:38 |
Felix Rijhnen
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01:05:56 | |
| 2010 |
Sabrina Rossow
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01:27:49 |
Daniel Hönigl
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01:28:25 | |
| 2009 |
Katharina Rumpus
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01:22:34 |
 Alexander Bastidas
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01:06:22 | |
| 35 km | |||||
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| year | Winner | time | winner | time | |
| 2008 |
Linda Schwickardi
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01:10:44 |
Pascal Ramali -2-
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00:58:48 | |
| 2007 |
Susi Eigler
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01:06:09 |
Pascal Ramali
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00:55:35 | |
See also
Web links
- Official website
- Eschborn – Frankfurt in the Radsportseiten.net database
- The U23 race in the Radsportseiten.net database
Individual evidence
- ↑ About us / History on www.eschborn-frankfurt.de ( Memento of the original from May 17, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved May 10, 2013
- ^ Association of German cyclists (ed.): Radsport . No. 21/1966 . Deutscher Sportverlag Kurt Stoof, Cologne 1966, p. 9 .
- ↑ Virtual route map in "Around the Henninger Tower" on radsport-news.com from April 29, 2004
- ↑ a b Frankfurt: 1st May cycle race secured. fr-online.de, March 8, 2010, accessed on August 7, 2016 .
- ↑ radsport-news.com of December 14, 2009: Hessian spring classic from 2010 with a new name
- ↑ Frankfurter Neue Presse : Terrorists in Oberursel Foiled terror attack in Oberursel: Did Halil D. have helpers? , May 4, 2015, accessed May 6, 2015
- ↑ Wiesbadener Kurier : After thwarted attack: Police cancels cycling races around the financial center Eschborn - Frankfurt , April 30, 2015
- ↑ Eschborn-Frankfurt will be part of the WorldTour from 2017. radsport-News.com, August 2, 2016, accessed August 3, 2016 .
- ↑ French becomes the first foreign language. fr-online.de, January 5, 2016, accessed on January 6, 2017 .
- ↑ Eschborn-Frankfurt 2018: Shorter name, more difficult route -. In: radsport-news.com. November 16, 2017. Retrieved November 16, 2017 .
- ↑ The classic Eschborn-Frankfurt cycle also canceled. In: kicker.de . March 18, 2020, accessed March 19, 2020 .
- ↑ Eschborn-Frankfurt joins the series of rejections. In: radsport-news.com. June 8, 2020, accessed June 8, 2020 .
- ↑ New record at the 6th Rhein-Main Skate Challenge on eschborn-frankfurt.de ( Memento of the original from May 6, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved December 25, 2012
