Grabsch at the 2008 Sachsen Tour
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Personal information | |||||||||||||
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Full name | Bert Grabsch | ||||||||||||
Born |
Wittenberg, East-Germany |
19 June 1975 ||||||||||||
Team information | |||||||||||||
Current team | Retired | ||||||||||||
Role | Rider | ||||||||||||
Rider type | Time-Trialist | ||||||||||||
Amateur team(s) | |||||||||||||
1997–1998 | Agro-Adler Brandenburg | ||||||||||||
Professional team(s) | |||||||||||||
1999–2000 | Team Cologne | ||||||||||||
2001–2006 | Phonak | ||||||||||||
2007–2011 | T-Mobile Team | ||||||||||||
2012–2013 | Omega Pharma–Quick-Step | ||||||||||||
Major wins | |||||||||||||
Vuelta a España, 1 stage World Time-Trial Championships (2008) National Time Trial Championships (2007, 2008, 2009, 2011) Sachsen-Tour (2008) |
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Medal record
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Bert Grabsch (born 19 June 1975 in Wittenberg) is a German former road bicycle racer, who raced as a professional between 1999 and 2013. He is the younger brother of fellow road racing cyclist Ralf Grabsch, and 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. In the same events at the 2012 Summer Olympics, he finished 95th in the road race and 8th in the time trial.
Grabsch retired at the end of the 2013 season, after fifteen years as a professional.