Rick Zabel

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Rick Zabel
Rund um Koln 2018 007.jpg
Zabel at the 2018 Rund um Köln
Personal information
Full nameRick Zabel
NicknameThe Lion [1]
Born (1993-12-07) 7 December 1993 (age 31)
Unna, Germany
Height1.84 m (6 ft 1⁄2 in) [2]
Weight72 kg (159 lb; 11 st 5 lb) [2]
Team information
Current teamRetired
DisciplineRoad
RoleRider
Rider typeSprinter [3]
Amateur team
2012–2013 Rabobank Continental Team
Professional teams
2014–2016 BMC Racing Team
2017–2019 Team Katusha–Alpecin [4]
2020–2024 Israel Start-Up Nation [5] [6] [7]

Rick Zabel (born 7 December 1993) is a German road bicycle racer, who competed as a professional from 2014 to May 2024. He is the son of Erik Zabel and grandson of Detlef Zabel.

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Cycling career

Born in Unna, Zabel won the National Novice Track Championships in 2009, in the Madison event. [8] In 2010 he enjoyed more success in track events, and in 2011, at the UCI Road World Championships in Copenhagen, he was fifth in the men's junior road race.

By summer of 2011 Zabel visited the Pierre de Coubertin sport gymnasium in Erfurt. [9] He left high school without a diploma, in order to sign his first professional contract with the Rabobank Continental Team for the 2012 season. [10] In 2012 he triumphed in the German road championship in the U23 class. [10] [11] In 2013, Zabel won the under-23 Tour of Flanders, and won a stage at the Tour de Normandie.

For the 2014 season, Zabel turned professional with the BMC Racing Team. [12]

On 6 May 2015, Zabel was named in BMC's team for the Giro d'Italia, giving him his first Grand Tour start. [13] On 7 July 2015, his father's 45th birthday, Zabel celebrated his first victory as a professional, winning stage 3 of the Tour of Austria. [14]

In June 2017, he was named in the startlist for the Tour de France. [15]

In May 2019, he won his second professional race in a sprint finish on stage two of the Tour de Yorkshire.

In May 2024, he announced his retirement from the sport following the Rund um Köln. [16]

Major results

2009
1st MaillotAlemania.PNG Madison, National Novice Track Championships (with Thomas Schneider)
2010
National Junior Track Championships
2nd Madison (with Thomas Schneider)
3rd Points race
3rd Team pursuit
2011
4th Overall Driedaagse van Axel
5th Road race, UCI Junior Road World Championships
2012
1st MaillotAlemania.PNG Road race, National Under-23 Road Championships
2nd Ronde van Limburg
9th GP Raf Jonckheere
2013
1st Ronde van Vlaanderen Beloften
1st Stage 5 Tour de Normandie
4th Overall Tour de Gironde
6th Paris–Tours Espoirs
7th La Côte Picarde
7th Münsterland Giro
8th Overall Olympia's Tour
10th Arno Wallaard Memorial
2014
1st Stage 1 (TTT) Giro del Trentino
6th Eschborn–Frankfurt City Loop
2015 (1 pro win)
1st Stage 3 Tour of Austria
2016
4th Volta Limburg Classic
2017
2nd Eschborn–Frankfurt – Rund um den Finanzplatz
9th Paris–Bourges
2018
10th Overall Dubai Tour
2019 (1)
1st Stage 2 Tour de Yorkshire
8th Grand Prix of Aargau Canton
2020
Giro d'Italia
Held MaillotAzul.PNG after Stage 1
2022
Giro d'Italia
Held MaillotAzul.PNG after Stage 3
Jersey red number.svg Combativity award Stage 2

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

Grand Tour 20152016201720182019202020212022
Jersey pink.svg Giro d'Italia 142 140 ——— 123 — 137
Jersey yellow.svg Tour de France —— 145 DNF DNF — 134 —
Jersey red.svg Vuelta a España Did not contest during his career
Legend
—Did not compete
DNF Did not finish

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  9. ↑ "Rick Zabel träumt mit 17 schon von der Profikarriere". radsport-news.com (in German). 25 September 2011. Retrieved 24 July 2015.
  10. 1 2 "Rabobank haalt zoon Erik Zabel". nu.nl (in Dutch). 21 September 2011. Retrieved 24 July 2015.
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