Cycling: second place and white jersey for Lipowitz near Paris-Nizza

Germany’s new cycling hopeful Florian Lipowitz has continued his promotion to the top of the world with the second overall and the white jersey as the best young professional on the difficult tour of Paris-Nizza. The 24-year-old, who came to cycling from biathlon a few years ago, also claimed his top position on the eighth and last stage around 119.9 kilometers and was 1:15 minutes behind the overall American winner Matteo Jorgenson.

Lipowitz thus ensured the best German placement on the traditional tour since Maximilian Schachmann, who won the race in 2020 and 2021. Already on the tour of the Spain last year, the Youngster from the Red Bull team caused a sensation with the seventh overall. On the last stage around Nice, he was the sixth to reach the goal, the day victory won the American Magnus Sheffield.

At Paris-Nizza, Lipowitz demonstrated that adverse conditions such as snow and rain no problems. “I come from winter sports, so I don’t mind cold conditions,” said the man from the Swabian Alb.

Hopes for participation in tour

With such achievements, Lipowitz may have justified hopes for his first participation in the Tour de France. Can Germany possibly hope for a strong tour driver in the future? “We are currently discovering what he is capable of,” said Patxi Vila as a sporting director on the tour in France. “He is very young, there is a lot to do and it’s exciting.”

The Vuelta has already proven that Lipowitz, which has a large engine, can manage long climbs. Now he showed new qualities. “I was surprised that I could keep up with the best because I had to fight with short, steep climbs.”

So he had asserted himself as sixth on the fifth stage on the steep Côte-Saint-André. Even well ahead of the two-time Tour de France winner Jonas Vingegaard, who had previously fallen and had to give up the race shortly afterwards with a hand bruises. In the representation of the Danes, Jorgenson secured the overall victory to the Visma team.