Patrik Sinkewitz

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**Patrik Sinkewitz**
Personal information

Date of birth	October 20, 1980
Country	Germany
Team information
Current team	T-Mobile Team
Professional team(s)
2001-2005 2006-	Quick Step-Innergetic T-Mobile Team
Major wins
1 Stage Tour of Germany 2004: Tour of Germany

Patrik Sinkewitz (Fulda, October 20, 1980) is a professional German cyclist currently riding for the T-Mobile Team cycling team. He is seen as a climbing specialist with the ability to perform well over the course of a stage race, as can be seen from his 2004 victory of the 9 stage Tour of Germany. He has also shown good results in the one-day classic cycle races such as Liège-Bastogne-Liège where he achieved a top-10 result in the 2006 edition. In his first appearance in a Grand Tour he did not perform spectacularly, finishing in 59th place in the 2005 Tour de France. The following year, in the 2006 Tour de France he performed significantly better, finishing 23rd in the GC and achieving several good stage results.

He started his amateur career with the Quick Step-Innergetic team (known at the time as Mapei-Quick·Step TT3) and turned professional in 2003 also with the (at the time) Quick·Step-Davitamon team. Following the 2005 cycling season he moved as aforementioned to the T-Mobile Team where he had a good string of results in the early season. In the 2006 Paris-Nice race he was unimpressive, finishing in 41st position, however he steadily improved, finishing in 4th overall in the Vuelta al País Vasco , in addition to two Top-5 stage finishes. Then, in the 'Spring Classics' season, he had excellent results in three UCI ProTour races, finishing in 5th in Amstel Gold Race, 5th in the Flèche Wallonne and 4th in Liège-Bastogne-Liège. He was also selected to the T-Mobile squad for the 2006 Tour of Germany, where he would serve as the team leader.^[1] These results combined gave him 90 UCI ProTour points, which, as of August 3 puts him in 13th place in the ProTour individual rankings.