Linus Gerdemann

Linus Gerdemann is a German former professional road bicycle racer, born on 16 September 1982. He turned professional with Team CSC in 2005 after riding for the amateur teams Winfix and AKUD Arnolds Sicherheit, and in his first year won the seventh stage of the Tour de Suisse. His biggest victory came on 14 July 2007, when he won the seventh stage of the Tour de France to Le Grand-Bornand, which put him in the yellow jersey as race leader and the white jersey as best young rider for two days. A crash at Tirreno-Adriatico in 2008 kept him out of that year's Tour de France and the Beijing Olympics, but he returned to win the Deutschland Tour in August 2008, and he won the Tour of Luxembourg in 2011 and 2015. He rode for MTN-Qhubeka in 2014 and Cult Energy-Vital Water in 2015, and announced his retirement in early 2017.