Steffen Wesemann

Steffen Wesemann
	Steffen Wesemann (2005)
To person
Date of birth	March 11, 1971
nation	Germany (until 2005) Switzerland (from 2005) ;
discipline	Street
height	1.73 meters
Racing weight	72 kilograms
Societies)
-1992	ASK Forward Frankfurt (Oder) / Frankfurter RC 90
Most important successes
	Tour of Flanders 2004 ; Overall ranking International Peace Tour '92, '96, '97, '99, '03
	Last updated: November 29, 2019

Steffen Wesemann (born March 11, 1971 in Wolmirstedt ) is a former cyclist .

Career

He won his first championship title in 1988 in the youth A class team time trial at the championship championships of the GDR Cycling Association . Wesemann started his professional career after victories at the Lower Saxony Tour and the Peace Tour in 1993 with the German cycling team Telekom , where he was employed until the end of 2006.

Wesemann was considered a classic specialist , as he was most successful in the spring races in Belgium and France . But also shorter stage races suited him, so he was the only driver to win the peace race five times. His greatest success was winning the 2004 Tour of Flanders in the sprint of a three-man leading group.

Wesemann has been a Swiss citizen since September 19, 2005. He gave up his German citizenship and started at the 2005 road cycling world championship for the Swiss national team.

In 2007 he reached third place in the Paris – Roubaix race . He was able to take part in the race with his second-class Wiesenhof-Felt team due to a wildcard .

In the 2008 season Wesemann drove for Cycle Collstrop . After the season he ended his active career. He later worked as a truck driver.

family

Wesemann in 2014

Steffen Wesemann is the son of the former cyclist and GDR road racing champion Wolfgang Wesemann , he is married and currently lives with his wife and one child in Küttigen in Switzerland .

Successes (selection)

1991

Overall ranking of the Berlin stage trip

1992

Overall evaluation of the International Peace Tour
Overall evaluation of the Lower Saxony tour

1993

a stage Catalan week

1996

Overall evaluation of the International Peace Tour

1997

Overall evaluation of the International Peace Tour

1999

Overall evaluation of the International Peace Tour

2000

Around Cologne

2003

Overall evaluation of the International Peace Tour

2004

Tour of Flanders

Teams

Web links

Commons : Steffen Wesemann - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Steffen Wesemann in the Tour de France database(French / English )

Steffen Wesemann in the Radsportseiten.net database

Steffen Wesemann in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

^ German Cycling Association of the GDR (ed.): The cyclist . No. 40/1988 . Berlin, S. 2 .
↑ Wesemann wins 88th Tour of Flanders. Radnet, April 4, 2004, accessed April 1, 2013 .
↑ ^a ^b Klaus Renner: Arrived in the mountains. In: volksstimme.de. December 24, 2014, accessed October 20, 2017 .
↑ radsport-news.com from April 15, 2007: Wesemann devilishly good in the hell of the north
^ By Manfred Hönel, Volksstimme Magdeburg: From the racing bike to the truck box. Retrieved July 27, 2019 .

personal data
SURNAME	Wesemann, Steffen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German-Swiss cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH	March 11, 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH	Wolmirstedt

[1] German Cycling Association of the GDR (ed.): The cyclist . No. 40/1988 . Berlin, S. 2 .

[2] Wesemann wins 88th Tour of Flanders. Radnet, April 4, 2004, accessed April 1, 2013 .

[volkssti-396740-3] Klaus Renner: Arrived in the mountains. In: volksstimme.de. December 24, 2014, accessed October 20, 2017 .

[4] radsport-news.com from April 15, 2007: Wesemann devilishly good in the hell of the north

[5] By Manfred Hönel, Volksstimme Magdeburg: From the racing bike to the truck box. Retrieved July 27, 2019 .