Patrik Sinkewitz
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| Personal information | |
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| Full name | Patrik Sinkewitz |
| Date of birth | October 20, 1980 (age 26) |
| Country |  Germany |
| Height | 1.73 m |
| Weight | 63 kg |
| Team information | |
| Current team | T-Mobile Team |
| Discipline | Road |
| Role | Rider |
| Rider type | Climbing specialist |
| Professional team(s) | |
| 2001-2002 2003-2005 2006- |
Mapei Quick Step T-Mobile Team |
| Major wins | |
| Deutschland Tour (2004) | |
| Infobox last updated on: | |
| January 10, 2007 | |
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 Deutschland Tour. 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 Deutschland Tour, where he would serve as the team leader. These results combined gave him 90 UCI ProTour points, which, as of August 3 puts him in 13th place in the ProTour individual rankings.
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| Riders on T-Mobile Team |
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Michael Barry | Eric Baumann | Lorenzo Bernucci | Marcus Burghardt | Mark Cavendish | Gerald Ciolek | Scott Davis | Bernhard Eisel | Linus Gerdemann | Bert Grabsch | André Greipel | Giuseppe Guerini | Roger Hammond | Adam Hansen | Greg Henderson | Serhiy Honchar | Kim Kirchen | Andreas Klier | Servais Knaven | André Korff | Axel Merckx | Aaron Olsen | Jakob Piil | Marco Pinotti | František Raboň | Michael Rogers | Stephan Schreck | Patrik Sinkewitz | Thomas Ziegler |
| Manager |
| Bob Stapleton |
