The German Biking Federation (BDR) introduced that 11-time Tour de France stage winner André Greipel will take over as their nationwide group coach and sports activities director.
The 40-year-old takes over from Jens Zemke who grew to become too busy together with his common job as sports activities director for the Bora-Hansgrohe males’s WorldTour group.
“After I was requested, I first requested for time to assume earlier than I accepted. That is utterly new for me, an awesome problem,” Greipel mentioned in a BDR press launch. “I am actually wanting ahead to working with the athletes and wish to get the most effective out of them. The present era is powerful. To kind a group with them and pursue a typical objective and implement it efficiently, that might be an thrilling process.”
Greipel will work carefully together with his former HTC teammate Marcus Burghardt, the federation’s vice chairman for skilled sports activities, and lead the group on the UCI World Championships and European championships. He may even assist choose groups together with Burghardt and Patrick Moster, who remains to be the federation’s sports activities director regardless of being despatched house from the Tokyo Olympic Video games for racist feedback.
“This was the most effective answer we might discover. André not solely brings an insane quantity of expertise to the desk, he’s additionally not tied to any group and might due to this fact act freely and neutrally,” Burghardt mentioned.
“With André Greipel, we have now been in a position to recruit one of the profitable German cyclists for this place. Each Marcus Burghardt and André Greipel know the constructions of the federation very effectively. They’ve all the time been carefully related to the federation from their time as junior riders to their profitable skilled careers. With each of them, we will comply with profitable paths.”
Greipel retired from his profitable profession within the professional peloton in 2021, having amassed 158 skilled victories together with stage wins in all three Grand Excursions – 11 within the Tour de France, seven within the Giro d’Italia and 4 within the Vuelta a España together with two total victories within the Tour Down Beneath.
