 Degenkolb at the 2017 Tour de France | |||||||||||||||
| Personal information | |||||||||||||||
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| Full name | John Degenkolb | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 7 January 1989 Gera, East Germany | ||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)[1] | ||||||||||||||
| Weight | 77 kg (170 lb; 12 st 2 lb)[1] | ||||||||||||||
| Team information | |||||||||||||||
| Current team | Team DSM–Firmenich PostNL | ||||||||||||||
| Discipline | Road | ||||||||||||||
| Role | Rider | ||||||||||||||
| Rider type | Classics rider Sprinter | ||||||||||||||
| Amateur team | |||||||||||||||
| 2008–2010 | Thüringer Energie Team | ||||||||||||||
| Professional teams | |||||||||||||||
| 2011 | HTC–Highroad | ||||||||||||||
| 2012–2016 | Project 1t4i | ||||||||||||||
| 2017–2019 | Trek–Segafredo[2] | ||||||||||||||
| 2020–2021 | Lotto–Soudal[3][4] | ||||||||||||||
| 2022– | Team DSM | ||||||||||||||
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John Degenkolb (born 7 January 1989) is a German professional road bicycle racer, who rides for UCI WorldTeam Team DSM–Firmenich PostNL.[5] His biggest wins to date are the 2015 Milan–San Remo and the 2015 Paris–Roubaix, two of cycling's five monuments. He is a winner of stages in all three Grand Tours, with ten stages and the points classification at the Vuelta a España, one stage of the Giro d'Italia, and one stage in the Tour de France.
In 2010 he won his first stage race, the Thüringen Rundfahrt der U23, and finished second in the under 23 race at the UCI Road World Championships. Degenkolb also took victory in the 2014 Gent–Wevelgem, the 2013 Vattenfall Cyclassics and was the overall winner of the 2012 UCI Europe Tour.[6][7]
- ^ a b "John Degenkolb". Tour de France 2013. Amaury Sport Organisation. Archived from the original on 27 December 2013. Retrieved 11 September 2014.
- ^ "Trek-Segafredo announce official 2019 rosters for men and women". Trek Bicycle Corporation. Intrepid Corporation. 27 December 2018. Retrieved 5 January 2019.
- ^ "Steff Cras and Matthew Holmes complete Lotto Soudal's 2020 roster". Cyclingnews.com. Future plc. 27 October 2019. Retrieved 2 January 2020.
- ^ "Lotto Soudal". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 1 January 2021. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
- ^ Benson, Daniel (5 August 2021). "John Degenkolb returns to Team DSM on three-year deal". Cyclingnews.com. Future plc. Retrieved 7 January 2022.
- ^ "Degenkolb proud after winning Europe Tour". Argos–Shimano. Project 1t4i. 8 October 2012. Retrieved 22 October 2012.
- ^ Atkins, Ben (8 October 2012). "Paris-Tours heroics secure John Degenkolb the overall Europe Tour". VeloNation. VeloNation LLC. Retrieved 22 October 2012.