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Wikipedia / Linus Gerdemann

Linus Gerdemann (born 16 September 1982) is a German former professional road bicycle racer, who won a stage in the 2007 Tour de France and led the general classification for two days, wearing the yellow jersey.

After failing to find a contract for 2013, Gerdemann joined for the 2014 season. In 2015 he rode for Danish professional continental team Cult Energy-Vital Water. Early 2017, Gerdemann announced his retirement.

Career

After riding on amateur teams Team Winfix and Team AKUD Arnolds Sicherheit, in 2005 he became a professional rider for after a recommendation from Dennis Kraft, signing on for a 2-year contract. In his first year as a pro, he won the 7th stage of the UCI ProTour race Tour de Suisse and had the leader's jersey in Four Days of Dunkirk.

In late 2005 he agreed to a contract with rival UCI ProTour , starting from 2006. This got Team CSC owner Bjarne Riis to release Gerdemann from his contract at the end of 2005.

On Saturday 14 July 2007 he secured his biggest victory in his career, the seventh stage of the Tour de France from Bourg-en-Bresse to Le Grand-Bornand. The stage win gave him the yellow jersey as leader of the general classification, as well as the white jersey as leader of the young rider classification. He was also awarded the combativity award for this stage.

In March 2008 he sustained injuries from a crash in the Tirreno–Adriatico and was unable to race in the 2008 Tour de France or the Beijing summer Olympics. He came back from his injuries to win the Deutschland Tour in August 2008.

Gerdemann also won the Tour of Luxembourg in 2011 and 2015.

Major results

  1. 2003

  2. 6th Overall Tour de Berlin

  3. 2004

  4. National Under-23 Road Championships

    1. 1st Road race

    2. 3rd Time trial

    1st Stage 4 Tour de Berlin

  5. 4th Memoriał Henryka Łasaka

  6. 6th Overall Thüringen Rundfahrt der U23

  7. 7th Rund um den Henninger Turm U23

  8. 2005

  9. 1st Stage 7 Tour de Suisse

  10. 2nd Overall Cinturón a Mallorca

  11. 3rd Overall Bayern Rundfahrt

  12. 5th Overall Four Days of Dunkirk

  13. 2006

  14. 6th Overall Volta a Catalunya

  15. 7th Overall Tour de Suisse

  16. 7th Grand Prix of Aargau Canton

  17. 8th Trofeo Calvià

  18. 2007

  19. Tour de France

    1. 1st Stage 7

    2. Held after Stages 7–8

    6th Gran Premio di Lugano

  20. 9th Overall Vuelta a Andalucía

  21. 9th Milano–Torino

  22. 2008

  23. 1st Overall Deutschland Tour

    1. 1st Stage 1

    1st Overall Tour de l'Ain

    1. 1st Stage 3a

    1st Coppa Ugo Agostoni

  24. 3rd Monte Paschi Eroica

  25. 7th Overall Sachsen Tour

  26. 9th Gran Premio di Lugano

  27. 2009

  28. 1st Overall Bayern Rundfahrt

  29. 1st Großen Preis der Stadt Dessau-Roßlau

  30. 5th Monte Paschi Strade Bianche

  31. 7th Overall Tirreno–Adriatico

  32. 2010

  33. 1st Trofeo Inca

  34. 1st Stage 1 Tirreno–Adriatico

  35. 9th Overall Vuelta a Andalucía

  36. 2011

  37. 1st Overall Tour de Luxembourg

    1. 1st Stage 2

    4th Overall Tour of Britain

  38. 10th Overall Eneco Tour

  39. 2012

  40. 2nd Road race, National Road Championships

  41. 5th Overall Tour de Pologne

  42. 8th Overall Vuelta a Castilla y León

  43. 2014

  44. Tour d'Azerbaïdjan

    1. 1st Mountains classification

    2. 1st Stage 4

    5th Overall La Tropicale Amissa Bongo

  45. 2015

  46. 1st Overall Tour de Luxembourg

    1. 1st Stage 2

    4th Rund um Köln

  47. 5th Gran Premio di Lugano

  48. 8th Classica Corsica

  49. 2016

  50. 10th Overall Vuelta a Castilla y León

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