Torsten Schmidt (born 18 February 1972) is a former German cyclist. After retiring from competition he became a ''

directeur sportif A ''directeur sportif'' (, ) is a person directing a cycling team during a road bicycle racing event. It is seen as the equivalent to a field manager in baseball, or a head coach in football. At professional level, a directeur sportif follows t ...

'' and coach, working with , , , and the Swiss national team.

Career achievements

Major results

;1992 :1st stage 1

Tour DuPont The Tour DuPont was a cycling stage race in the United States held annually between 1989 and 1996, initially called the Tour de Trump in the first two years. It was intended to become a North American cycling event similar in format and prestig ...

:1st stage 5 Olympia's Tour :1st stage 1

Tour de Wallonie The Tour de Wallonie is a stage race cycling race on the UCI Europe Tour. It runs in Wallonia, the French-speaking part of Belgium in the end of July. Between 1974 and 1995 it was reserved to amateurs. Since 2005, the race has been organized as a ...

;1993 :2nd Tour de Berlin ;1998 :1st Grand Prix Théo Mulheims :1st Tour of Normandie ::1st stage 1 :1st Rund um Düren :1st stage 6 Niedersachsen-Rundfahrt :1st stage 6b

Rheinland-Pfalz Rundfahrt The International Rheinland-Pfalz Rundfahrt was a stage race, multi-stage road bicycle racing, road bicycle race held in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. In the years from 1966 to 2007, it was considered one of the biggest sporting events in Rhine ...

:2nd Tour de Berlin :3rd Grand Prix de la Ville de Lillers ;1999 :1st

Route Adélie Route or routes may refer to: * Air route, route structure or airway * GPS route, a series of one or more GPS waypoints * Route (gridiron football), a path run by a wide receiver * Route (command), a program used to configure the routing tabl ...

:1st Niedersachsen-Rundfahrt ::1st stage 4b :1st stage 10 Vuelta a Argentina :1st stage 4 3-Länder-Tour :3rd Colliers Classic :3rd Bayern Rundfahrt ;2000 :1st Niedersachsen-Rundfahrt ::1st stage 6 :1st Grand Prix EnBW (with Michael Rich) ;2001 :1st stage 2 3-Länder-Tour :1st stage 4

:2nd Niedersachsen-Rundfahrt :3rd

Rund um Köln The Rund um Köln is a Classic cycle races, classic cycling race around the German city of Cologne. Since 2005 it is part of the UCI Europe Tour, being organised as UCI race classifications, 1.1 race (in 2007 the race was categorised as 1.HC). It ...

;2002 :2nd 3-Länder-Tour ;2004 :1st stage 4

;2005 :1st

Eindhoven Team Time Trial The UCI ProTour Eindhoven Team Time Trial was an annual road bicycle race held in Eindhoven, Netherlands. It was approximately . Each team had six riders. In 2006, team size expanded to eight. Conceived as part of the UCI ProTour in 2005 UCI ProT ...

;2006 :1st stage 8

Peace Race The Peace Race (, , , (), , , , ) is a cycling race that was established as the largest event in Eastern Europe after the Second World War. Since 2013, it has been run as one of the most prestigious stage races for national U23 teams. Histo ...

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

References

1972 births Living people German male cyclists People from Schwelm Cyclists from Arnsberg (region) Directeur sportifs German cycling coaches {{Germany-cycling-bio-1970s-stub