Bert Grabsch

Bert Grabsch
	Grabsch at the 2008 Sachsen Tour
Personal information
Full name	Bert Grabsch
Born	19 June 1975 (age 49); Wittenberg, East Germany
Height	1.79 m (5 ft 10 in)
Weight	78 kg (172 lb)
Team information
Current team	Retired
Role	Rider
Rider type	Time-Trialist
Amateur team
1997–1998	Agro-Adler Brandenburg
Professional teams
1999–2000	Team Cologne
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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

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

Major results

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

Grand Tour	2004	2005	2006	2007	2009
Giro d'Italia
Tour de France	81	103	107	105	134
Vuelta a España

Legend
—	Did not compete
DNF	Did not finish

References

^ Atkins, Ben (19 September 2011). "Fabian Cancellara tips Tony Martin and Bert Grabsch for time trial gold". VeloNation. VeloNation LLC. 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.
^ ^a ^b Westemeyer, Susan (28 October 2013). "Grabsch retires after 15 year-career". Cyclingnews.com. Future plc. Retrieved 21 December 2013.
^ 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.
^ "London 2012 Men's Individual Road Race". www.olympic.org. IOC. Retrieved 28 August 2014.
^ "London 2012 Men's Individual Time Trial". www.olympic.org. IOC. Retrieved 28 August 2014.

External links

Media related to Bert Grabsch at Wikimedia Commons

Bert Grabsch at Olympics.com
Bert Grabsch at the Deutscher Olympischer Sportbund (in German)

Sporting positions
Preceded by Fabian Cancellara	World Time Trial Champion 2008	Succeeded by Fabian Cancellara

[1] Atkins, Ben (19 September 2011). "Fabian Cancellara tips Tony Martin and Bert Grabsch for time trial gold". VeloNation. VeloNation LLC. 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.

[Retirement-2] Westemeyer, Susan (28 October 2013). "Grabsch retires after 15 year-career". Cyclingnews.com. Future plc. 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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