# Marcus Burghardt

Marcus Burghardt (born 30 June 1983) is a German former professional road bicycle racer, who rode professionally between 2005 and 2021 for the Team Columbia–HTC, BMC Racing Team and Bora–Hansgrohe teams. During his career, Burghardt took seven professional victories, including the 2007 Gent–Wevelgem, the German National Road Race Championships in 2017, and a stage win at the 2008 Tour de France.

## Career

Burghardt was born in Zschopau, Saxony, and raced as an amateur in the U-23 Wiesenhof team, with which he tasted success in the shape of the overall win at the Bundesliga Gerlingen in 2004. Burghardt turned professional in 2005, and won the UCI ProTour race Gent–Wevelgem in 2007, ahead of teammate Roger Hammond. He has also performed well in some races such as the Dwars door Vlaanderen and some stages of the Vuelta a España.
He was successful in winning Stage 18 of the 2008 Tour de France into Saint Etienne, beating break-away compatriot Carlos Barredo.
Burghardt signed with BMC Racing Team for the 2010 season. After seven years there, in August 2016 Bora–Hansgrohe announced that he would join them for 2017. He remained with the team for five seasons, with his sole victory coming in the German National Road Race Championships in 2017.
In April 2022, he announced his retirement from professional cycling, while rehabilitating from a severe wrist injury suffered at the 2021 Tour de Pologne. In June 2022, he joined the executive committee of the German Cycling Federation.

## Major results

Source:

### 2001

    1st Overall Trofeo Karlsberg
       1st Stages 1 & 5
    9th Road race, UCI Junior Road World Championships

### 2003

    10th Overall Ronde de l'Isard
       1st Stage 3

### 2004

    4th Paris–Roubaix Espoirs
    8th Overall Le Triptyque des Monts et Châteaux
    10th Overall Giro delle Regioni

### 2005

    4th Dwars door Vlaanderen

### 2006

    7th Dwars door Vlaanderen

### 2007

    1st Gent–Wevelgem
    3rd E3 Prijs Vlaanderen
    6th Overall 3-Länder-Tour
       1st Stages 3 & 5
    6th Trofeo Cala Millor-Cala Bona

### 2008

    Tour de France
       1st Stage 18
       Combativity award Stage 18

### 2009

    4th Overall Sachsen Tour
    5th Omloop Het Nieuwsblad
    7th Tour of Flanders
    7th Gent–Wevelgem
    10th E3 Prijs Vlaanderen

### 2010

    Tour de Suisse
       1st Points classification
       1st Stages 5 & 7
    5th Overall Tour of Qatar
    7th Overall Tour of Oman

### 2011

    9th Overall Tour of Qatar

### 2013

    1st Mountains classification, Tour de Romandie

### 2015

    1st Stage 1 (TTT) Vuelta a España
    3rd Road race, National Road Championships

### 2017

    1st Road race, National Road Championships

### 2018

    10th Omloop Het Nieuwsblad

### 2019

    2nd Road race, National Road Championships

### 2021

    5th Road race, National Road Championships

### Grand Tour general classification results timeline

| Grand Tour | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 |
| Giro d'Italia | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 70 | — | — | — | — |
| Tour de France | — | — | 127 | 120 | — | 161 | 164 | 58 | 98 | 154 | — | 89 | 131 | 92 | 141 |
| / Vuelta a España | 76 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | DNF | — | — | 149 | — |
Legend :
| — | Did not compete |
| DNF | Did not finish |