Silvio Herklotz

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Silvio Herklotz Road cycling
Silvio Herklotz (2014)
Silvio Herklotz (2014)
To person
Date of birth May 6, 1994
nation Germany
discipline Street
End of career 2018
Societies)
2005–2010
2011–2012 		RSV Werner Otto
Harvestehuder RSV
Most important successes

Overall ranking Tour Alsace 2013
Gran Premio Palio del Recioto 2014

Last updated: April 7, 2020
Silvio Herklotz at the German Road Cycling Championships 2017

Silvio Herklotz (born May 6, 1994 in Berlin ) is a former German cyclist .

Athletic career

As a young driver, Silvio Herklotz was considered to be the greatest German talent for tours .

He started cycling at the age of nine with RSV Werner Otto and won the International Kids Tour in the U13 category in 2006 . He started for RSV Werner Otto .

In 2010 Silvio Herklotz was German junior champion in cyclo-cross racing , in 2011 and 2012 German junior champion in the same discipline and in 2012 German junior mountain champion. In 2011, he also won the International 3-Stage Tour in Frankfurt am Main , finished sixth in the Junior European Road Championship and won a time trial stage of the International Peace Tour . At the end of the season, Silvio Herklotz was voted German junior cyclist of the year 2011 . At the Giro della Lunigiana , he won three stages in 2012 and came second overall.

In the adult category, Herklotz joined the UCI Continental Team Team Stölting in 2013 and was fourth in the U23 edition of Rund um den Finanzplatz Eschborn-Frankfurt . In June 2013 in Ilsfeld-Auenstein, after a solo trip, he became German champion in the U23 road race and a few weeks later German mountain champion . He then won his first international elite cycling race with the overall ranking of the Alsace Tour and was eighth in the U23 road race at the World Championships . In 2014 Herklotz won the one-day race Gran Premio Palio del Recioto and finished ninth in the U23 World Championships . In the U23 event from Liège – Bastogne – Liège , Herklotz finished second, although he had to wait at a gate and was then misdirected by the race management.

In 2016, Herklotz moved to the UCI Professional Continental Team Bora-Argon 18 , which received a license as a UCI WorldTeam in 2017 . He started at the Vuelta a España 2016 , but could not finish this Grand Tour . His best result for this team in 2017 was fourth place in the overall standings of the Czech Cycling Tour . Subsequently, his contract was not extended by the team management.

In 2018, Herklotz drove for the Spanish Burgos bra , but was only able to contest a few races due to a Lyme disease . The disease healed by the end of the year. Herklotz temporarily withdrew from international cycling in order to complete an apprenticeship as a sports and fitness salesman. At the same time, he wanted to compete in some circuit races and possibly competitions in the cycling Bundesliga .

successes

2010
2011
2012
2013
2014

Teams

Web links

Commons : Silvio Herklotz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Herklotz: "I want to improve step by step". In: radsport-news.com. February 24, 2015, accessed December 23, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Cyclist of the Year: Martin, Arndt and Herklotz in the readers' choice of «Radsport» magazine. In: rad-net.de. January 3, 2012, accessed December 21, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Herklotz new German U23 champions. In: radsport-news.com. June 2, 2013, accessed December 21, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Herklotz outstanding winner in the fight against mountains and heat on dm-berg.de ( Memento of the original from July 30, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved November 6, 2013 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dm-berg.de
  5. ↑ Herklotz: Railway barrier and misdirection cost the victory. In: radsport-news.com. April 18, 2015, accessed December 21, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Herklotz will move to Burgos BH in Spain. In: radsport-news.com. October 3, 2017, accessed December 21, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Borreliosis slowed Herklotz down. In: radsport-news.com. June 25, 2018, accessed December 21, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Herklotz: "My training has the highest priority". In: radsport-news.com. December 30, 2018, accessed December 30, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Herklotz, Silvio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH May 6, 1994
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin