Gerald Ciolek

Ciolek started racing at senior events in May 2005,^[2] with Team AKUD Arnolds Sicherheit, where he had a very successful season. He won the German National Road Race Championships aged 18, the youngest ever rider to do so.^[3] Ciolek was able to overcome seasoned sprinters Erik Zabel and Robert Förster without help from any team mates, ending the twelve-year domination of T-Mobile.^[4] Besides winning the national championship, he secured three stage victories and the points competition at the Tour de Hongrie,^[5] and a stage victory at the Mainfranken Tour.^[6]

In 2006, Ciolek completed his training at the Ford Motor Company and was able to turn professional and devote his career to cycling.^[7] Through the season, he rode strongly and secured a number of high placings in important races to prove he could challenge, and beat, the strongest sprinters in UCI ProTour teams. Ciolek had an excellent second placing at the Rund um den Henninger Turm, where he once again beat Erik Zabel.^[8] Since Ciolek’s AKUD Arnolds Sicherheit team merged with Team Wiesenhof at the beginning of the season^[9] to be the strongest German team outside of the UCI ProTour, they were able to secure wild card entries to a number of ProTour events where Ciolek shone even more. At the Vattenfall Cyclassics, Ciolek secured fifth place.^[10] A few weeks later, Ciolek won his first UCI ProTour event at the Tour of Germany, where he won stage three.^[11] On 23 September he won U23 Road Race World Championship in Salzburg.^[12]

For the 2007 season, Ciolek left Wiesenhof for the UCI ProTour with T-Mobile Team. After a relatively quiet early season, he came from behind to win the Rheinland-Pfalz Rundfahrt in May. He then caught fire in August, when he took three stages of the Deutschland Tour and was a fast-charging third in the Vattenfall Cyclassics.

In the 2008 season, Ciolek raced for Team Columbia. During 2008, he was a stage winner in Sparkassencup Schwenningen, and won two stages in Bayern-Rundfahrt. In the 2008 Tour De France Ciolek was an instrumental figure in all four of Mark Cavendish's stage wins. On the final stage on the Champs-Élysées Ciolek managed to finish second to Gert Steegmans. He participated in the Olympic Games Road Race but had to abandon due to the effect the extreme conditions had on him. However, in September, he was able to bounce back and claim the fifth stage of the 2008 Deutschland Tour in an uphill sprint finish.

Ciolek parted ways with Omega Pharma–Quick-Step at the end of the 2012 season, and joined the MTN–Qhubeka squad for the 2013 season.^[13]

Ciolek won the 2013 Milan–San Remo, with a time of 5h 37' 20", holding off favourites Peter Sagan (Cannondale) and Fabian Cancellara (RadioShack–Leopard) in the sprint finish.^[14]

Palmarès

2004

1st Stage 1 Niedersachsen-Rundfahrt

2005

1st

National Road Race Championships

Tour de Hongrie

1st Stages 3, 7 & 8

1st Points classification

1st Stage 3 Mainfranken Tour

2006

1st

World Under-23 Road Race Championships

1st Stage 3 Deutschland Tour

1st Stage 3 Istrian Spring Trophy

1st Rund um die Nürnberger Altstadt

1st Young rider classification Niedersachsen-Rundfahrt

2nd Rund um den Henninger Turm

5th Vattenfall Cyclassics

2007

1st Overall Rheinland-Pfalz Rundfahrt

1st Sprint classification

1st Young rider classification

Deutschland Tour

1st Stages 6, 7 & 9

Tour of Austria

1st Stages 2 & 8

1st Stage 1 3-Länder-Tour

2nd Münsterland Giro

3rd Overall Niedersachsen-Rundfahrt

3rd Vattenfall Cyclassics

2008

Bayern-Rundfahrt

1st Stages 1 & 3

1st Stage 5 Deutschland Tour

2009

1st Stage 2 Vuelta a España

1st Trofeo Calvia

2nd Sparkassen Giro Bochum

3rd Vattenfall Cyclassics

2010

1st Stage 3 Bayern-Rundfahrt

2011

2nd Vattenfall Cyclassics

2012

1st Stage 4 Volta ao Algarve

1st Stage 2b (TTT) Tour de l'Ain

2013

1st Milan–San Remo

1st Stage 2 Driedaagse van West-Vlaanderen

1st Stage 6 Tour of Austria

1st Stage 2 Tour of Britain

2nd National Road Race Championships

5th Trofeo Laigueglia

5th Eschborn-Frankfurt City Loop

6th Brussels Cycling Classic

10th Overall Bayern-Rundfahrt

1st Stage 3

10th Schaal Sels-Merksem

2014

1st Stage 3 Vuelta a Andalucía

3rd Rund um Köln

5th Overall Tour of Norway

8th Le Samyn

9th Milan–San Remo

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

Grand Tour	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013
Giro	—	—	—	WD	—	—
Tour	106	126	133	150	—	—
Vuelta	—	—	WD	—	—	—

WD = Withdrew; In Progress = IP

References

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↑ www.cyclingnews.com – the world centre of cycling
↑ Tan, Anthony; Jones, Jeff (9 September 2005). "Ciolek to Univest Grand Prix". Cycling News (Future Publishing Limited). Retrieved 19 March 2013.
↑ www.cyclingnews.com – the world centre of cycling
↑ www.cyclingnews.com – the world centre of cycling
↑ www.cyclingnews.com – the world centre of cycling
↑ www.cyclingnews.com – the world centre of cycling
↑ www.cyclingnews.com – the world centre of cycling
↑ http://www.wiesenhof-akud.de/index.jsp?rubrik=team&sub=geschichte3
↑ www.cyclingnews.com presents the Vattenfall Cyclassics
↑ Eurosport Splash
↑ www.cyclingnews.com presents the 2006 UCI Road World Championships, Salzburg, Austria
↑ Stokes, Shane (14 September 2012). "Ciolek adds firepower to MTN Qhubeka lineup for next season". VeloNation (VeloNation LLC). Retrieved 15 September 2012.
↑ Bull, Nick (17 March 2013). "Gerald Ciolek sprints to surprise Milan-San Remo win". Cycling Weekly. IPC Media Limited. Retrieved 18 March 2013.

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Riders on Dimension Data (cycling team)

Milan–San Remo winners

1900–1919	Lucien Petit-Breton (1907) Cyrille van Hauwaert (1908) Luigi Ganna (1909) Eugène Christophe (1910) Gustave Garrigou (1911) Henri Pélissier (1912) Odile Defraye (1913) Ugo Agostoni (1914) Ezio Corlaita (1915) (1916, not held) Gaetano Belloni (1917) Costante Girardengo (1918) Angelo Gremo (1919)

1920–1939	Gaetano Belloni (1920) Costante Girardengo (1921) Giovanni Brunero (1922) Costante Girardengo (1923) Pietro Linari (1924) Costante Girardengo (1925–1926) Pietro Chesi (1927) Costante Girardengo (1928) Alfredo Binda (1929) Michele Mara (1930) Alfredo Binda (1931) Alfredo Bovet (1932) Learco Guerra (1933) Jef Demuysere (1934) Giuseppe Olmo (1935) Angelo Varetto (1936) Cesare Del Cancia (1937) Giuseppe Olmo (1938) Gino Bartali (1939)

1940–1959	Gino Bartali (1940) Pierino Favalli (1941) Adolfo Leoni (1942) Cino Cinelli (1943) (1944–1945, not held) Fausto Coppi (1946) Gino Bartali (1947) Fausto Coppi (1948–1949) Gino Bartali (1950) Louison Bobet (1951) Loretto Petrucci (1952–1953) Rik Van Steenbergen (1954) Germain Derycke (1955) Fred De Bruyne (1956) Miguel Poblet (1957) Rik Van Looy (1958) Miguel Poblet (1959)

1960–1979	René Privat (1960) Raymond Poulidor (1961) Emile Daems (1962) Joseph Groussard (1963) Tom Simpson (1964) Arie den Hartog (1965) Eddy Merckx (1966–1967) Rudi Altig (1968) Eddy Merckx (1969) Michele Dancelli (1970) Eddy Merckx (1971–1972) Roger De Vlaeminck (1973) Felice Gimondi (1974) Eddy Merckx (1975–1976) Jan Raas (1977) Roger De Vlaeminck (1978–1979)

1980–1999	Pierino Gavazzi (1980) Alfons De Wolf (1981) Marc Gomez (1982) Giuseppe Saronni (1983) Francesco Moser (1984) Hennie Kuiper (1985) Sean Kelly (1986) Erich Maechler (1987) Laurent Fignon (1988–1989) Gianni Bugno (1990) Claudio Chiappucci (1991) Sean Kelly (1992) Maurizio Fondriest (1993) Giorgio Furlan (1994) Laurent Jalabert (1995) Gabriele Colombo (1996) Erik Zabel (1997–1998) Andrei Tchmil (1999)

2000–2019	Erik Zabel (2000–2001) Mario Cipollini (2002) Paolo Bettini (2003) Óscar Freire (2004) Alessandro Petacchi (2005) Filippo Pozzato (2006) Óscar Freire (2007) Fabian Cancellara (2008) Mark Cavendish (2009) Óscar Freire (2010) Matthew Goss (2011) Simon Gerrans (2012) Gerald Ciolek (2013) Alexander Kristoff (2014) John Degenkolb (2015) Arnaud Démare (2016)

German National Road Race Champions (men)

1900–1919	Karl Wittig (1910) Ernst Franz (1913) Richard Golle (1919)

1920–1939	Paul Koch (1920) Adolf Huschke (1921) Richard Huschke (1922) Richard Golle (1923) Paul Kohl (1924) Richard Huschke (1925) Felix Manthey (1928) Kurt Stöpel (1934) Bruno Roth (1935) Georg Umbenhauer (1936) Erich Bautz (1937) Jupp Arents (1938) Walter Löber (1939)

1940–1959	Georg Stach (1940) Erich Bautz (1941) Karl Kittsteiner (1946) Georg Voggenreiter (1947) Otto Schenk (1948) Otto Ziege (1949) Erich Bautz (1950) Ludwig Hörmann (1951–1952) Heinz Müller (1953) Hermann Schild (1954) Hans Preiskeit (1955) Valentin Petry (1956) Franz Reitz (1957) Klaus Bugdahl (1958) Hans Junkermann (1959)

1960–1979	Hans Junkermann (1960–1961) Dieter Puschel (1962) Sigi Renz (1963) Rudi Altig (1964) Winfried Bölke (1965–1967) Rolf Wolfshohl (1968) Peter Glemser (1969) Rudi Altig (1970) Jürgen Tschan (1971) Wilfried Peffgen (1972) Günter Haritz (1974) Dietrich Thurau (1975–1976) Jürgen Kraft (1977) Gregor Braun (1978) Hans-Peter Jakst (1978)

1980–1999	Gregor Braun (1980) Hans Neumayer (1981–1982) Gregor Braun (1983) Reimund Dietzen (1984) Rolf Gölz (1985) Reimund Dietzen (1986) Peter Hilse (1987) Hartmut Bölts (1988) Darius Kaiser (1989) Udo Bölts (1990) Falk Boden (1991) Heinrich Trumheller (1992) Bernd Gröne (1993) Jens Heppner (1994) Udo Bölts (1995) Christian Henn (1996) Jan Ullrich (1997) Erik Zabel (1998) Udo Bölts (1999)

2000–2019	Rolf Aldag (2000) Jan Ullrich (2001) Danilo Hondo (2002) Erik Zabel (2003) Andreas Klöden (2004) Gerald Ciolek (2005) Dirk Müller (2006) Fabian Wegmann (2007–2008) Martin Reimer (2009) Christian Knees (2010) Robert Wagner (2011) Fabian Wegmann (2012) André Greipel (2013–2014) Emanuel Buchmann (2015)

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