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Tony Martin (cyclist)

Tony Martin
Cambrai - Tour de France, étape 4, 7 juillet 2015, arrivée (B04) (cropped).JPG
Martin at the 2015 Tour de France
Personal information
Full name Tony Hans-Joachim Martin
Nickname Panzerwagen
Born (1985-04-23) 23 April 1985 (age 31)
Cottbus, East Germany
Height 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)
Weight 75 kg (165 lb; 11.8 st)
Team information
Current team Team Katusha–Alpecin
Discipline Road
Role Rider
Rider type Time trialist
Domestique
Rouleur
Amateur team(s)
2004 Köstritzer
2005 Gerolsteiner (stagiaire)
2006–2007 Thüringer Energie Team
Professional team(s)
2008–2011 HTC–Highroad
2012–2016 Omega Pharma–Quick-Step
2017– Team Katusha–Alpecin
Major wins

Grand Tours

Tour de France
5 individual stages (2011, 2013, 2014, 2015)
Vuelta a España
2 individual stages (2011, 2014)

Stage races

Eneco Tour (2010)
Paris–Nice (2011)
Tour of Beijing (2011, 2012)
Tour of Belgium (2012, 2013, 2014)
Volta ao Algarve (2011, 2013)

One-day races and Classics

World Time Trial Championships (2011, 2012, 2013, 2016)
World Team Time Trial Championships (2012, 2013, 2016)
National Time Trial Championships (2010, 2012–2016)

Grand Tours

Stage races

One-day races and Classics

Tony Martin (born 23 April 1985) is a German professional road bicycle racer riding for the UCI WorldTeam Team Katusha–Alpecin. Martin is known as a time trial specialist, and is a four-time world champion in the discipline, having won the title in 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2016. He also won a silver medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, finishing runner-up to Bradley Wiggins in the event.

Martin has also been a part of three world championship-winning team time trial squads with Omega Pharma–Quick-Step/Etixx–Quick-Step, in 2012, 2013 and 2016. Martin has also won five Grand Tour individual time trial stages; three at the Tour de France in 2011, 2013 and 2014, and two at the Vuelta a España in 2011 and in 2014. He has also won several stage races, including the Eneco Tour (2010), Paris–Nice (2011) and the first two editions of the Tour of Beijing in 2011 and 2012.


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