Germany’s Tour de France hope Emanuel Buchmann is on Sixth place in the overall standings prior to the decision in the Alps in the distance. The Chance on the big Tour-Coup has earned the 26-Year-old.
A Basketball Superstar Dirk Nowitzki and a professional cyclist Manuel Buchmann have in common: Both have been referred to in the English-speaking press as “The German Wunderkind”. However, during the a, Nowitzki, has finished his great career just, the other possibly before his first big Coup: Buchmann is the Tour-de-France-standings to rank six, only two minutes missing at the Yellow Jersey. The 26-Year-old is in striking distance of a podium place is for “Emu”, as his friends call in the area of the Possible. Maybe even the top step of the podium? “I dreamed as a child, never Yellow. I’m the rational type, live in reality,” rejected the suggestion Buchmann.
Place on the Pyrenean stage in 2015
As the “German Wunderkind” was the lanky, 1.81 m professional, who brings around 60 kilograms, in the year 2015. At the time, he duped, first at the German Championships of the established national Stars such as André Greipel and John Degenkolb, and took the title. In the champion’s Jersey with the black-and-red-and-gold strip, he drove in his first Tour de France on a tough Pyrenean stage to the podium: After a 108-Kilometer-long flight on the dreaded 2115-metre-high Col du Tourmalet, and a further five mountain passes Buchmann won the third rank.
His best stage placing in the Tour of 2015: place three after the chase on the Tourmalet
22 years old, he was the fourth youngest driver in the field. In the end, he took 32. Place in the overall standings. Since then, it 21 went slowly but steadily upwards:. in the Tour of 2016, 15. in the case of the tour de France in 2017 – in both years, third in the standings of the best young professionals. In 2018, he continued with the Tour, led instead, as the captain of his Team “Bora-hansgrohe” in the tour of Spain and was the Twelfth.
Continuously become better
Emanuel Buchmann at the Tour Start in Brussels
Even better, the book’s development to the cruise specialists with a chance to win on his performance at the “Critérium du Dauphin” reading, the “Tour de France”, many of the Stars to use as preparation for the tour de France: 32. (2015), 20. (2016), 7. (2017), 6. (2018), 3. (2019). In the mountains Buchmann has always been very good, in the meantime, he has improved driving, but also in time. So he took the year of the “Dauphiné” in the fight against the clock in the third place, in front of some of the Tour favorites.
“I have made every year a step forward. And I could in between my preparation easily pull this off, it came to nothing. I’ve become more Mature,” said Buchmann in the DW-Interview in Brussels, just before the Start of this year’s Tour. “It is absolutely realistic that I can drive in the overall standings in the Top Ten. I am motivated to achieve this goal.”
This year, Buchmann (l.) delivered a strong performance on the Col du Tourmalet
Attack in the Alps?
After a good two weeks Tour Buchmann holds firmly to this goal. “There will be more, I am pleased, of course,” he said of the “image”-newspaper. In the case of heavy Pyrenean stages of the German with two fourth places, has convinced. Now the three serious Alpine stages will be available starting the Thursday before the door, which will decide the overall victory in this year’s Tour de France. With three altitude training camps in February, may, and June prepared Buchmann, especially on this spectacular Tour finals. If anything, he’ll attack the Yellow Jersey, had “Emu” in a statement. Further, the rather introverted professional is not leaning out of the window: “There is no harm if you have to drive a bit under the Radar.” Emanuel Buchmann presented rather with his performances on the bike than with pithy sayings.