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Key facts
- 2001
- Jan Ullrich Nachwuchsteam
- 2004
- SSV Gera 1990
- 2005
- Team Wiesenhof
- 2019
- Arkéa–Samsic
- 2022
- RC Schmitter Köln
- 2023
- P&S Benotti
- Full name
- André Greipel
- Nickname
- The Gorilla
- Born
- ( 1982-07-16 ) 16 July 1982 (age 43) , Rostock , East Germany
- Height
- 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
- Weight
- 78 kg (172 lb)
- Current team
- RC Schmitter Köln Germany (national team)
- Discipline
- Road
- Role
- Rider Directeur sportif Coach
- Rider type
- Sprinter
- C 2000
- Polizei SV Rostock
- 2002 2004
- TEAG Team Köstritzer
- 2006 2010
- T-Mobile Team
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- André
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Germany
- Place of birth
- Rostock
- Occupation
- sport cyclist
- Languages spoken
- German
- Participant in
- 2005 UCI Europe Tour
- Sport
- road bicycle racing
- Member of team
- NSN Cycling Team
- Position played
- cycling sprinter
- Country for sport
- Germany
- Mass
- 82
- Official website
- www.andregreipel.de
- Image
- Deutschland Tour 2018 Bonn 098.jpg
- Height
- 184
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- André Greipel
- date of birth
- 1982-07-16
- name in native language
- André Greipel
- nickname
- Gorilla
- social media followers
- 170534
- sports discipline competed in
- road bicycle racing
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Encyclopedic overview
André Greipel (born 16 July 1982) is a German cyclist, who rode professionally in road bicycle racing between 2005 and 2021. Since his retirement from road racing, Greipel has worked as a directeur sportif for UCI Continental teams Saris Rouvy Sauerland Team and P&S Benotti, and in 2023, he became the national road coach for the German Cycling Federation. He also competes in masters cycling events for RC Schmitter Köln.
During his professional career, Greipel competed as a pure sprinter and took a total of 158 wins. His major successes included 22 stage victories at Grand Tours, the most by a German rider: 11 at the Tour de France, 4 at the Vuelta a España, and 7 at the Giro d'Italia, while he also won the points classification in the 2009 Vuelta a España.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “André Greipel” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.