Max Walscheid

Max Walscheid

Walscheid at the 2016 Rund um Köln.
Personal information
Full name	Maximilian Richard Walscheid
Nickname	Max
Born	(1993-06-13) 13 June 1993 (age 31) Neuwied, Germany
Height	1.99 m (6 ft 6 in)
Weight	92 kg (203 lb)
Team information
Current team	Team Jayco–AlUla
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Rider type	Sprinter Time trialist
Amateur teams
2009	VC Neuwied '81
2010–2011	Das Rad Koblenz
2011	Carboo4U Radsport Team Rheinland-Pfalz/Saarland
Professional teams
2012–2014	Team Raiko–Stölting
2015	Team Kuota–Lotto
2015	Team Giant–Alpecin (stagiaire)
2016–2019	Team Giant–Alpecin[1]
2020–2021	NTT Pro Cycling[2][3]
2022–2023	Cofidis[4]
2024–	Team Jayco–AlUla
Major wins
One-day races and Classics GP de Denain (2022) Münsterland Giro (2018)
Medal record Men's road bicycle racing Representing  Germany World Championships 2021 Flanders Mixed team relay 2023 Glasgow Mixed team relay European Championships 2021 Trentino Mixed team relay 2024 Limburg Mixed team relay 2023 Drenthe Mixed team relay

Maximilian Richard "Max" Walscheid (born 13 June 1993) is a German cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Cofidis.[5]

Career

Walscheid was born in Neuwied. On 23 January 2016, he was one of the six members of Team Giant–Alpecin who were hit by a motorist who drove into on-coming traffic while they were training in Spain. All riders were in stable condition.[6]

In August 2018, he was named in the startlist for the Vuelta a España.[7] In August 2020, he was named in the startlist for the 2020 Tour de France.[8]

During the 2021 Tour de France he won a Wheelie contest which the YouTube channel Tour de Tietema hosted.[9] The wheelie contest was repeated in the 2022 Tour de France during the first rest day and he won thanks to a wheelie of 1420 meters.[10]

Major results

2014

1st Road race, National Under-23 Road Championships

9th Overall Tour de Berlin

1st Stages 4 & 5

2015

1st Kernen Omloop Echt-Susteren

2nd Overall Tour de Berlin

1st Stage 4

5th Zuid Oost Drenthe Classic

8th Omloop van het Houtland

10th Velothon Berlin

2016 (5 pro wins)

Tour of Hainan

1st Points classification

1st Stages 3, 4, 5, 7 & 9

2nd Road race, National Road Championships

2017 (1)

1st Stage 5 Danmark Rundt

5th Omloop van het Houtland

2018 (2)

1st Münsterland Giro

1st Stage 3 Tour de Yorkshire

3rd Road race, National Road Championships

6th Scheldeprijs

2019 (1)

1st Omloop van het Houtland

2nd Scheldeprijs

4th Time trial, National Road Championships

5th Münsterland Giro

2020 (2)

Tour de Langkawi

1st Points classification

1st Stages 3 & 8

2021

1st Team relay, UCI Road World Championships

UEC European Road Championships

2nd Team relay

5th Time trial

3rd Time trial, National Road Championships

7th Nokere Koerse

7th Bredene Koksijde Classic

2022 (1)

1st Grand Prix de Denain

2nd Nokere Koerse

3rd Münsterland Giro

4th Classic Brugge–De Panne

7th Grand Prix d'Isbergues

10th Trofeo Playa de Palma

2023

3rd Team relay, UCI Road World Championships

3rd Team relay, UEC European Road Championships

6th Overall Tour Poitou-Charentes en Nouvelle-Aquitaine

6th Clásica de Almería

6th Elfstedenronde

8th Paris–Roubaix

8th Scheldeprijs

2024 (1)

1st Omloop van het Houtland

1st Stage 1 (TTT) Okolo Slovenska

5th Time trial, National Road Championships

5th Münsterland Giro

10th Time trial, UEC European Road Championships

10th Elfstedenrace

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

Grand Tour	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024
Giro d'Italia	—	—	—	124	—	—	127
Tour de France	—	—	134	121	DNF	—
Vuelta a España	156	137	—	—	—	—

Legend

—	Did not compete
DNF	Did not finish

References

1. "Team Sunweb confirm 2019 men's and women's rosters". Cyclingnews.com. Immediate Media Company. 23 November 2018. Retrieved 5 January 2019.
2. "NTT Pro Cycling Team". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 3 January 2020. Retrieved 3 January 2020.
3. "Team Qhubeka Assos". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 2 January 2021. Retrieved 2 January 2021.
4. "Cofidis sign Walscheid and Villella". Cyclingnews.com. Future plc. 4 November 2021. Retrieved 22 January 2022.
5. "Team Jayco–AlUla". UCI. Retrieved 5 January 2024.
6. "John Degenkolb and Warren Barguil among six Giant-Alpecin cyclists hospitalised after being hit by a car". Irish Independent. 23 January 2016.
7. "2018: 73rd Vuelta a España: Start List". Pro Cycling Stats. Retrieved 22 August 2018.
8. "107th Tour de France: Startlist". ProCyclingStats. Retrieved 27 August 2020.
9. "HELE PELOTON DOET WHEELIES 😂 [BIZAR RECORD!] | TOUR DE FRANCE 2021 #14". YouTube. Tour de Tietema. Retrieved 13 July 2021.
10. PELOTON DOET WHEELIES 😂 [BIZAR RECORD] | TOUR DE FRANCE 2022 #9, retrieved 14 July 2022

External links

• Max Walscheid at UCI
• Max Walscheid at Cycling Archives (archived)
• Max Walscheid at ProCyclingStats
• Max Walscheid at Cycling Quotient
• Max Walscheid at CycleBase