With our team captain Daniel Knyss at the helm, we will set course for the championship round of the German professional cyclists. Because next Saturday, the seventh race in the fight for the German Cycling Cup will take place as part of the German Championships for professional drivers. Our Merkur Druck top driver Daniel Knyss wants to defend both the individual lead and the top position in the ranking of the best teams.
“German amateur cycling is taking center stage due to the German championship for professionals shortly before the upcoming Tour de France. In Baunatal, all strong teams will show themselves from their best side in front of the pros.", our sponsor Markus Adam is also convinced. “For us it's about defending the top positions in the respective ratings. It's going to be hard work, but I'm sure that Christine and the boys will be motivated when they start."
At the German professional cycling championships in the Hessian Baunatal, the best national amateur racing teams meet, who determine their own title winners in a total of 14 races as part of the German Cycling Cup.
Our Merkur Cycling Team is also at the start of the 104-kilometer race for everyone. We have to championship round master six times before the winners are determined in the start and finish area of Baunatal.
A look at the current rankings in the fight for the German Everyman Championship promises to be exciting. Daniel Knyss was able to recapture the yellow jersey of the overall leader at the last race in Schleiz and at the same time leads in the Masters 1 age group. The two-time winner of the season is 23 points ahead of Sandro Kühmel (Bürstner-Duemo / 2.018) and has a total of 1.995 points. In third place is Kühmel's teammate Marek Bosniatzki (1.983), followed by Merkur Druck driver Stefan Räth (1.962).
Friedrich Schweizer, Christian Dengler and Till Baltes are in the top ten places six to eight within striking distance of the leaders and Merkur Druck veteran Bernd Weinhold is consolidating his leading position with overall individual place twelfth ahead of his team colleague Manfred Böhm in his age group Master 3.
With Stefan Räth, Friedrich Schweizer and Till Baltes, three riders from the Merkur Cycling Team are ahead in the main class. In addition, Christine Göldner defended her top position in her Masters 3 age group. In the overall standings, the only female rider in the Merkur Cycling Team is in eleventh place.
In the ranking of the best teams in the German Cycling Cup, the Jedermann racing team from Norderstedter Merkur Druck GmbH leads ahead of Team Bürstner Dümo and the Lock8 Cycling Team.
In addition to a total of 14 events in the national racing series, the Merkur Cycling Team also competes in the two major German amateur races in Berlin and Hamburg.