National Championships 2022 – Germany – Road Race [FULL RACE]

June 26, 2022

National Championships 2022 – Germany – Road Race ME/WE – Neheim : 210 km / 130

The German National Road Race Championship is a cycling race organized by the German Cycling Federation. The event was established in 1910, with the women’s championship starting in 1968. No competitions were held in 1914–1918, 1926/1927, 1929–1933, 1942–1945 and 1973. The winners of each event are awarded with a symbolic cycling jersey.

Elite Men :

Nils Politt (Bora-hansgrohe) won the elite men’s road race title at the German Road Championships. Politt soloed to the victory, winning the championship-title race by 47 seconds ahead of runner-up Nikias Arndt (Team DSM) and 2:45 ahead of third-placed Simon Geschke (Cofidis).

“It’s something very special. I’m already looking forward to wearing the championship jersey for a year. I noticed on Friday [Time Trial] that I’m in good shape. We wanted and had to make the race difficult, even if three men were missing with Maximilian Schachmann, Jonas Koch and Anton Palzer,” said Politt, who also finished third in the time trial, in a Radsport report.

The elite men raced 187 kilometres from Neheim to Kahler Asten. Politt and Arndt formed a breakaway and gained a minute on a chasing field that had been reduced to some 40 riders due the difficulty of the route.

Although the pair were eventually caught, they attacked again and this time Lennard Kämna and Emanuel Buchmann (also Bora-hansgrohe), and Geschke bridged across.

Kämna led the race onto the final two circuits where Arndt and Politt distanced their breakaway companions to form the winning move.

The pair started the last lap before the 14-kilometres with a lead of more than a minute over Kämna, Geschke, Buchmann and Johannes Adamietz (Saris Rouvy Sauerland Team).

Pilott and Arndt extended their lead to two minutes, held over the last climb. Pilott attacked Arndt with four kilometres to go and built a sizeable lead before securing the victory.

Behind, Geschke and Buchmann were on the hunt for the remaining spot on the podium with Geschke sprinting for third.

Results :

Elite Women :
Liane Lippert (Team DSM) secured her second career women’s road race title at the German Road Championships on Sunday.

Lippert outsprinted a breakaway to beat runner-up Ricarda Bauernfeind (Canyon-SRAM Generation) and third-placed Nadine Gill (Sopela Women’s Team).

“It was a hard course this year which suited us well. It was a loop of around 12 kilometres and it was kind of a classic style route. There was a climb after two kilometres on the route and I opened the race up really early because we wanted to get rid of the sprinters,” said Lippert, who last won the road race title in 2018.

“In the finish it was a long uphill drag and the last final kilometre got steeper but not steep enough to attack so I focused on the sprint and that went really well. Tactically, I think it was a really good race. I rode smart, saved energy when I could and I’m super happy that it then paid off in the sprint. I’m delighted to win the jersey again.”

The women raced a hilly 122km where Lippert was part of a decisive five-rider breakaway that included Bauernfeind, Gill along with Clara Koppenburg (Cofidis Women Team) and Antonia Niedermaier (Canyon-SRAM Generation).

Lippert was strongest on the uphill breakaway sprint to the finish line to claim the win in the sprint and the national road title for the second time in her career.

Bauernfeind was second, Gill third, Koppenburg, and Niedermaier at 11 seconds back. Aileen Schweikart (Bizkaia Durango) was the next to cross the line in sixth at 8:30 back.

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