Puncheur

A Puncheur is a driver type for road cycling race, other types of drivers include the Rouleur, the sprinter or climber. The Puncheur has special strengths in rolling terrain and is often also a strong sprinter. The term is derived from the identical French term for a craftsman who performs a hallmark, and the anglicism puncher, for " beat ", " mark " or " hallmarking ". At the beginning of the 20th century, these were the usual meanings of words.

Ideal race for Punch Your are a lot of one-day races in the spring, which are characterized in that they have a lot of short crispy increases have (10-20 % slope at about 1-2 km in length). Well-known races in this category are, for example, the Tour of Flanders, Liege -Bastogne- Liege, the Flèche Wallonne and the Amstel Gold Race.

The Puncheur can with his extreme departure to give the slopes a decisive advantage or tear apart as a helper for his team the peloton. His physique allowed him but unlike the pure climbers not to maintain this force on a long climb (5-10 % gradient at about 5-20 km in length ) in the high mountains.

Known Punch Your are, for example, Alexander Vinokourov, Philippe Gilbert, Paolo Bettini and Davide Rebellin.