Georg Zimmermann won the German street cycling championship for the first time. The 27-year-old Augsburg brave the high temperatures, a defect on the rear wheel and the 3,330 meters in the Palatinate. Zimmermann secured the master jersey in the village near Kaiserslautern in the sprint against Felix Engelhardt. After 198 kilometers, spread over ten laps, Anton Schiffer finished third ahead of Lennard Kämna.
Maximilian Schachmann gave the tone with his attacks for a long time, but was left behind in the last round. The also strong mountain specialist Emanuel Buchmann could not follow the attack by Engelhardt a few kilometers before the finish.
Zimmermann spoke in the SWR of the “great success” of his career after an “up and down of the feelings” in the race, in which he was about to take a plate shortly before the task. But thanks to the help of his team-mate Jonas Rutsch from the Belgian team Intermarché-Wanty, he came back.
From July 5, the Augsburger will already contest his fifth Tour de France. The fact that he could wear the jersey of a German master in France means that he has now “reached 33 percent of his career goals,” said Zimmermann. As a goal, he still has a victory at a tour stage and participation in the Olympic Games. His greatest success in a stage of the Tour de France was a second place.
Maximilian Schachmann won on Friday as a time trial champion ahead of Miguel Heidemann and Lennard Kämna.
For women, Antonia Niedermaier secured the title against the clock. A day later, Niedermaier Franziska Koch was defeated, who successfully defended her master jersey as the previous year’s winner.
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