Bert Grabsch

Bert Grabsch
Grabsch at the 2008 Sachsen Tour
Personal information
Full nameBert Grabsch
Born (1975-06-19) 19 June 1975 (age 50)
Wittenberg, East Germany
Height1.79 m (5 ft 10 in)
Weight78 kg (172 lb)
Team information
Current teamRetired
RoleRider
Rider typeTime-Trialist
Amateur team
1997–1998Agro-Adler Brandenburg
Professional teams
1999–2000Team Cologne
2001–2006Phonak
2007–2011T-Mobile Team
2012–2013Omega Pharma–Quick-Step[1]
Major wins
Grand Tours Vuelta a España 1 individual stage (2007)

One-day races and Classics

World Time Trial Championships (2008) National Time Trial Championships
(2007, 2008, 2009, 2011)
Medal record
Men's road bicycle racing
Representing  Germany
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2008 Varese Elite Men's Time Trial

Bert Grabsch (born 19 June 1975) is a German former road bicycle racer, who raced as a professional between 1999 and 2013.[2] He was born in Wittenberg and is the younger brother of fellow road racing cyclist Ralf Grabsch. He is a former UCI time trial world champion, having won the title in Varese, Italy on 25 September 2008.

He competed at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games in the Individual Road Race, which he did not finish, and Individual Time Trial, where he finished thirteenth.[3] In the same events at the 2012 Summer Olympics, he finished 95th in the road race and 8th in the time trial.[4][5]

Grabsch retired at the end of the 2013 season, after fifteen years as a professional.[2]

Career achievements

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Major results

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1998 1st Stage 4 Regio-Tour 9th Overall Vuelta Ciclista de Chile 1999 1st Stage 5 Regio-Tour 6th Overall Niedersachsen-Rundfahrt 9th Overall Deutschland Tour 2000 1st Hel van het Mergelland 3rd Overall Niedersachsen-Rundfahrt 3rd Stadsprijs Geraardsbergen 4th Rund um den Henninger Turm 5th GP Rudy Dhaenens 7th Overall Rheinland-Pfalz Rundfahrt 10th Overall Peace Race 2001 2nd Rund um Köln 2nd Giro del Mendrisiotto 3rd Grand Prix Eddy Merckx 5th Overall Tour de Wallonie 1st Stage 2 6th Overall Deutschland Tour 7th Overall Niedersachsen-Rundfahrt 1st Stage 5 7th Overall Rheinland-Pfalz Rundfahrt 2002 1st Stage 1 Vuelta a Burgos 10th Rund um Köln 2004 6th LUK Challenge Chrono Bühl 7th Overall Three Days of De Panne 7th Grand Prix Pino Cerami 2005 1st Rund um die Hainleite 2nd Eindhoven Team Time Trial 10th HEW Cyclassics 2007 1st Time trial, National Road Championships 1st Stage 8 (ITT) Vuelta a España 2nd Overall Bayern Rundfahrt 3rd Sparkassen Giro Bochum 2008 1st Time trial, UCI Road World Championships 1st Time trial, National Road Championships 1st Overall Sachsen-Tour 1st Stage 4 1st Stage 6 (ITT) Tour of Austria 2009 1st Time trial, National Road Championships 1st Stage 4 (ITT) Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré 2011 1st Time trial, National Road Championships 1st Stage 7 (ITT) Tour of Austria 5th Overall Three Days of De Panne 2012 2nd Time trial, National Road Championships

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

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Competing in the 2012 London Olympics Time Trial
Grand Tour 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012
Pink jersey Giro d'Italia 61
Yellow jersey Tour de France 81 103 104 105 134 169 125
Gold jersey/Red jersey Vuelta a España 101 88 86 DNF DNF 136
Legend
Did not compete
DNF Did not finish

References

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  1. ^ Atkins, Ben (19 September 2011). "Fabian Cancellara tips Tony Martin and Bert Grabsch for time trial gold". VeloNation. Retrieved 5 January 2012. Among his challengers, Cancellara himself has picked out two Germans as the main competition, according to Sporza; both of whom currently ride for HTC–Highroad, and both of whom will be transferring to Omega Pharma–Quick-Step in 2012.
  2. ^ a b Westemeyer, Susan (28 October 2013). "Grabsch retires after 15 year-career". Cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 21 December 2013.
  3. ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Bert Grabsch". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 22 June 2010.
  4. ^ "London 2012 Men's Individual Road Race". www.olympic.org. IOC. Retrieved 28 August 2014.
  5. ^ "London 2012 Men's Individual Time Trial". www.olympic.org. IOC. Retrieved 28 August 2014.
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