Tony Martin

Tony Hans-Joachim Martin, born on 23 April 1985 in Cottbus in East Germany, is a German former professional road bicycle racer known as a time trial specialist. He is a four-time world champion in the discipline, winning in 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2016, which is joint-most with Fabian Cancellara and Remco Evenepoel, and he won a silver medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, runner-up to Bradley Wiggins. He was also part of four world championship-winning team time trial squads. He won seven Grand Tour stages, including five individual time trial stages, three at the Tour de France in 2011, 2013 and 2014 and two at the Vuelta a España in 2011 and 2014, and as a stage racer he won the Eneco Tour in 2010, Paris-Nice in 2011 and the first two editions of the Tour of Beijing. Late in his career he became a super-domestique and road captain at Team Jumbo-Visma.