André Greipel
André Greipel was born on July 16, 1982. See ranking, bio blurb, and everyone else born that day.
About André Greipel
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. A three-time winner of the German National Road Race Championships (a record shared with six other riders), Greipel also prevailed in the classic Paris–Bourges and the 2015 Vattenfall Cyclassics, and won the overall classification of the Tour Down Under in Australia, in 2008 and 2010. He is also the record holder for most stage wins at the Tour Down Under with eighteen, and is tied for most stage wins at the Benelux Tour (seven, with Tom Boonen) and the Presidential Cycling Tour of Turkey (eleven, with Mark Cavendish).