Steffen Weigold

Steffen Weigold
	Steffen Weigold at Euskal Bizikleta (2007)
To person
Date of birth	April 9, 1979
nation	Germany
discipline	Road, cyclocross, MTB
Societies)
1989 to 1999 ; 2000	RSV Alpirsbach-Rötenbach ; NRVg Luisenstadt
Team (s)
1998–1999 ; 2000 ; 2001–2003 ; 2004–2006 ; 2007	Team SportRegion Stuttgart (U23) ; Team Deutsche Telekom Jan Ullrich (U23) ; Team Gerolsteiner ; Team Lamonta ; Tinkoff Credit Systems
	Last updated: August 7, 2017

Steffen Weigold (born April 9, 1979 in Oberndorf am Neckar ) is a former German racing cyclist .

Career

In the junior division, he was successful in cross-country, road and mountain bike races for RSV Alpirsbach-Rötenbach. At the cyclocross world championships in 1997 in Munich's Olympic Park, he won the bronze medal and was also nominated for the mountain bike world championship in the same year. Due to the fourth place (1999 in Poprad) and sixth (2000 in St. Michielsgestel) at world championships and constant placings in the World Cup, the two-time German U23 champion was considered a hope for German cross-sport. During this time he was a member of the Bundeswehr sports promotion group in Todtnau-Fahl. As a driver of the Telekom junior team, the Alpirsbacher won the team championship of the U23 Bundesliga in 2000 and finished fifth in the overall individual classification.

In 2001 Steffen Weigold became a professional with the Gerolsteiner team and after results such as third place overall at the Troféu Agostinho, his contract was extended prematurely. In Gerolsteiner's jersey, he competed several times in classics such as Paris-Roubaix or the Tour of Flanders, and in 2003 he also competed in the Giro d'Italia .

After three years he moved to the German team Lamonta . With a fourth place in the German Rad-Cross Championship in 2004, he also returned to cyclo-cross racing and in 2005 took part in the Cyclocross World Championship in St. Wendel. In the same year he won the mountain classification of the Regio Tour .

In the 2007 season he was under contract with the Russian-Italian professional Continental Team Tinkoff Credit Systems and drove the Tour of Lombardy as the last race of his professional career.