Bert Grabsch

Bert Grabsch
Grabsch at the 2008 Sachsen Tour
Personal information
Full nameBert Grabsch
Born (1975-06-19) 19 June 1975 (age 49)
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]

  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.