Marcel Kittel

World Champion Time Trial Junior 2005, 2006 Europe Europe champion U23 individual time trial 2009   German time trial champion U23 2010 Stage win Vuelta a España 2011 4 stage wins Tour de France 2013

Marcel Kittel (born 11 May 1988 in Arnstadt ) is a German racing cyclist.

  • 2.1 Placements in the Grand Tours

Cycling career

Marcel Kittel won the 2005 in the junior class stages in Course de la Paix, the Sint- Martinusprijs and in Lower Saxony Tour. At the Junior World Championships in Salzburg, he won the time trial. The next year he defended his title at the Belgian circuit of Spa -Francorchamps. He also won stages at the Cottbus Bundesliga stage race, the La Coupe du Président de la Ville de Grudziadz, at the Trofeo Karlberg, the Sint- Martinusprijs, in Lower Saxony Tour and the Tour de Lorraine, the overall standings, he also himself decided. In 2006, he also became German champion in the individual and in the team time trial. From 2007 to 2010 Kittel drove team for the Thüringer Energie. In his first year there he was in the U-23 class national time trial champion.

As of the 2011 season went gowns for the team Skil- Shimano, which was from the 2012 season Argos - Shimano and from 2014 Giant - Shimano. In the 2011 season he won the end of January, the third stage of the Tour de Langkawi. It was followed by other successes, including four stage wins at the Four days of Dunkirk, the victory in the first ProRace Berlin as well as a stage wins and the overall victory at the Delta Tour Zeeland. In the Tour of Poland in 2011 the end of July / beginning of August he scored four stage victories at a World Tour race. Finally, he later went on the seventh stage of the Vuelta a España few weeks, his first stage victory in a three-week tour of the country a. Kittel was a total at the end of the 2011 season to 17 wins, which he, the driver with the second most wins of the year, behind Philippe Gilbert. The 2011 season of Kittel was the most successful season of Neoprofis in the history of cycling.

In the 2012 season Kittel won 13 UCI races. In his Tour de France debut, he gave up after a gastrointestinal infection and knee pain during the fifth stage. At the start of the 2013 season, he scored as Sprint winner on the second stage of Paris -Nice another success in a World Tour race. In 2013 he won in a bunch sprint, the first stage of the 100th Tour de France in Bastia on Corsica and wore as 14 cyclists from Germany the yellow jersey. Then there were three more stage wins, including the final stage with the finish on the Champs- Élysées.

Honors

2013 Marcel Kittel has been named the German cyclist of the year and "Sportsman of the Year" of Thuringia. He was also in Germany 's largest public vote for the " Sport 1 - Sportsman of the Year 2013 " award

Achievements

  • World Champion - Individual Time Trial (Juniors )
  • A stage ( ECF ) Trofeo Karlberg (Juniors )
  • German Masters - Individual Time Trial (Juniors )
  • World Champion - Individual Time Trial (Juniors )
  • German Masters - Individual Time Trial ( U23 )
  • A stage Brandenburg Tour
  • Memorial Davide Fardelli
  • A stage of Tour du Haut Anjou
  • Two stages Flèche du Sud
  • A stage International Thüringen Tour
  • Europe European Champion - Individual Time Trial ( U23 )
  • German Masters - Individual Time Trial ( U23 )
  • Festningsrittet a stage
  • World Championships - individual time trial ( U23 )
  • A stage of the Tour de Langkawi
  • Quatre Jours de Dunkerque four stages
  • ProRace Berlin
  • Delta Tour Zeeland and a stage
  • Four stages of Tour of Poland
  • A stage in the Vuelta a España
  • Kampioenschap van Vlaanderen
  • Savings Munsterland Giro
  • Two stages Herald Sun Tour
  • A stage Étoile de Bessèges
  • Two stages of the Tour of Oman
  • A stage Driedaagse van De Panne - Koksijde
  • Scheldt Price Flanders
  • Ster ZLM Toer two stages
  • Two stages Eneco Tour
  • Omloop van het Houtland
  • Two stages Circuit Franco -Belge
  • Savings Munsterland Giro
  • A stage in the Tour of Oman
  • A stage of Paris-Nice
  • Scheldt Price
  • Three stages Presidential Cycling Tour of Turkey
  • Tour de Picardie and two stages
  • ProRace Berlin
  • Ster ZLM Toer stage a
  • Four stages of the Tour de France
  • Omloop van het Houtland

Rankings in the Grand Tours

Legend:

  • DNF: did not finish, a stage driver has not ended
  • WD: withdrawal, the driver has the tour canceled after a stage
2013 Tour de France May 11 Peace Race Niedersachsen-Rundfahrt Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps 2011 Tour de Langkawi 2011 Tour de Pologne UCI World Tour 2012 Tour de France 2012 Tour de France, Prologue to Stage 10#Stage 5 Three Days of De Panne Tour de l'Eurometropole General classification in the Giro d'Italia General classification in the Tour de France 2011 Tour de France
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