Patrick Sinkewitz
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| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Patrik Sinkewitz |
| Born |
20 October 1980 Fulda, Germany |
| Height | 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) |
| Weight | 63 kg (139 lb) |
| Team information | |
| Current team | Meridiana–Kamen |
| Discipline | Road |
| Role | Rider |
| Rider type | Climbing specialist |
| Amateur team(s) | |
| 2000 | Mapei–Quick-Step (stagiaire) |
| Professional team(s) | |
| 2001–2002 | Mapei–Quick-Step |
| 2003–2005 | Quick-Step–Davitamon |
| 2006–2007 | T-Mobile Team |
| 2009 | PSK Whirlpool–Author |
| 2010–2011 | ISD–NERI |
| 2012– | Meridiana–Kamen |
| Major wins | |
| Deutschland Tour (2004) Rund um den Henninger Turm (2007) |
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Patrik Sinkewitz (born 20 October 1980) is a professional German road racing cyclist, who competes for the Meridiana–Kamen team. He is a climbing specialist who can ride well over a stage race, as in winning the 2004 nine-stage Deutschland Tour. He also rode well in one-day races such as Liège–Bastogne–Liège, where he finished in the top 10 in 2006. He did not perform well in his first major tour, finishing 59th in the 2005 Tour de France. The following year he finished 23rd and had good stage results. In February 2014 he was banned from competition for 8 years for a second anti-doping rule violation, having tested positive for testosterone in 2007 and recombinant human growth hormone in 2011.
Born in Fulda, Sinkewitz started his amateur career with Mapei–Quick-Step and turned professional in 2003 with Quick-Step–Davitamon. Following 2005 he moved to T-Mobile Team where he had a good early season. He came fourth in the Vuelta al País Vasco and twice finished stages in the first five. Then he finished fifth in the Amstel Gold Race, fifth in the Flèche Wallonne and fourth in Liège–Bastogne–Liège.
Sinkewitz did not start stage nine of the 2007 Tour de France after colliding with a spectator the previous day.
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