Personal information | |
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Full name | Christian Pfannberger |
Born | Judenburg, Austria | 9 December 1979
Team information | |
Current team | None |
Discipline | Road |
Role | Rider |
Rider type | Classics specialist |
Professional teams | |
2002 | Nurnberger Versicherung |
2003 | Volksbank–Ideal |
2004 | eD'System-ZVVZ |
2006–2007 | Elk Haus–Simplon |
2008 | Barloworld |
2009 | Team Katusha |
Major wins | |
National Road Race Champion (2007, 2008) |
Christian Pfannberger (born 9 December 1979) is an Austrian former professional road racing cyclist. He was a two-time Austrian national road-race champion (2007 and 2008).[1] Other achievements included winning the U23 National Championship in 2001 and the Giro del Capo, a stage race in South Africa in 2008. In spring 2008 he had top 10 finishes in all three of the Ardennes classics. Pfannberger was handed a lifetime ban by the Austrian National Anti-Doping Agency for his second doping violation.