Simon Geschke

Simon Geschke
	Simon Geschke (2014)
To person
Full name	Simon Geschke
Nickname	Simoni
Date of birth	13th March 1986 (age 34)
nation	Germany
discipline	Street
To the team
Current team	CCC team
function	driver
Societies)
2004-2008	Berlin TSC
Team (s)
2008 ; 2009–2011 ; 2012–2013 ; 2014–2016 ; 2017–2018 ; 2019–	Team Milram (Stagiaire) ; Skil-Shimano ; Team Argos-Shimano ; Giant-Alpecin ; Team Sunweb ; CCC Team
Most important successes
	a stage Tour de France 2015
	Last updated: February 16, 2019

Simon Geschke (born March 13, 1986 in Berlin ) is a German racing cyclist . He won a stage of the Tour de France in 2015 .

Athletic career

In 2005 Simon Geschke came third in the race around the Sachsenring . The next year he was third on sections of the Cinturón a Mallorca , second in the Tour of Thuringia and second in the Tour de Guadeloupe . In the 2007 season he drove a few races for the German U23 national team. He won a stage each on the Styria Tour and the Ronde de l'Isard . In the U23 road race of the German championship he was third.

In 2009 the Berliner won the jersey of the best young rider at the Étoile de Bessèges tour as a neoprofi of the Skil-Shimano team. In 2010 he finished fourth in the Bayern Rundfahrt before he celebrated his first international elite success in 2011 with a stage win at the Critérium International . In 2014 he won the Grand Prix of the Canton of Aargau .

In March 2015, Geschke broke his collarbone in an unfortunate collision with his team's support vehicle and was operated on. Two months later, at the 2015 Giro d'Italia , he conquered the Maglia Azzurra of the best climber for one day . His greatest success up to that point was celebrated shortly afterwards at the Tour de France 2015 when he won the 17th stage , a difficult mountain stage, from Digne-les-Bains to Pra-Loup after a solo ride of around 50 kilometers. At the Giro d'Italia 2017 , Geschke was one of the most important helpers of the eventual overall winner Tom Dumoulin . The following year he finished 25th in the overall ranking of the Tour de France .

At the 2019 season debut, the Vuelta Ciclista a la Region de Murcia Costa Calida , Geschke broke his right elbow in a fall ten kilometers from the finish . After a five-week break from racing, he started the Tour of Catalonia and fell again on the last stage in Barcelona , breaking his right collarbone and four ribs. After finishing the Tour de France 2019 as 63rd overall, Geschke won the mountain classification at the UCI WorldTour - stage race Tour of Poland by attacking the last two sections of the day .