Key facts
- Full name
- Marcel Kittel
- Born
- ( 1988-05-11 ) 11 May 1988 (age 38) , Arnstadt , Bezirk Erfurt , East Germany
- Height
- 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)
- Weight
- 82 kg (181 lb; 12 st 13 lb)
- Discipline
- Road
- Role
- Rider
- Rider type
- Sprinter
- 2007 2010
- Thüringer Energie Team
- 2011 2015
- Skil–Shimano
- 2016 2017
- Etixx–Quick-Step
- 2018 2019
- Team Katusha–Alpecin
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Marcel
- Family name
- Kittel
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Germany
- Place of birth
- Arnstadt
- Occupation
- sport cyclist
- Languages spoken
- Dutch
- Participant in
- 2013 UCI World Tour
- Sport
- cycle sport
- Member of team
- Katusha-Alpecin
- Position played
- cycling sprinter
- Mass
- 82
- Official website
- www.marcelkittel.de
- Image
- Rund um Köln 2018 003.jpg
- Height
- 188
- Residence
- Twente
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- Commons category
- Marcel Kittel
- date of birth
- 1988-05-11
- sports discipline competed in
- road bicycle racing
- social media followers
- 226627
- web feed URL
- marcelkittel.com/feed
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Encyclopedic overview
Marcel Kittel (born 11 May 1988) is a German former racing cyclist, who rode professionally between 2011 and 2019 for the Team Giant–Alpecin, Quick-Step Floors and Team Katusha–Alpecin squads. As a junior, he specialised in time trials, winning a bronze medal in the World Championships for cyclists aged under 23. When he became a professional in 2011, he specialised in bunch sprints, winning 19 stages across the three Grand Tours, and taking 89 wins in his professional career.
After retirement, he started working as ambassador for Endura and ROSE Bikes. Since 2021 he has been Tour de France analyst for Dutch national broadcaster NOS. Starting from the 2026 Season, he will be returning to professional Sports as "Sprint Coach" for the Unibet Tietema Rockets
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Marcel Kittel” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.