{"id":52616,"date":"2026-06-28T19:15:03","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T19:15:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/greenedgecycling.com\/2026\/?p=52616"},"modified":"2026-07-17T18:04:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T18:04:19","slug":"%f0%9f%87%a9%f0%9f%87%aa%f0%9f%8f%86-felix-engelhardt-is-the-new-german-road-race-champion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greenedgecycling.com\/2026\/%f0%9f%87%a9%f0%9f%87%aa%f0%9f%8f%86-felix-engelhardt-is-the-new-german-road-race-champion\/","title":{"rendered":"\ud83c\udde9\ud83c\uddea\ud83c\udfc6 Felix Engelhardt is the new German Road Race Champion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Felix Engelhardt<\/strong>&nbsp;has claimed his first elite men\u2019s road race title at the&nbsp;<strong>German Road Race Championships<\/strong>&nbsp;in Bad Liebenstein. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the scorching heat of the Thuringian Forest, the 25-year-old rider was the protagonist of a remarkable comeback in the last of the seven laps on the demanding 27.3km circuit. After being dropped on the final climb, Engelhardt reduced the deficit to the five-rider breakaway on the descent with less than 3km to go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a tense finish, Engelhardt out sprinted Lennart Jasch and Nico Denz to claim the German title and he&nbsp;will now&nbsp;start his debut Tour de France in the national champion\u2019s jersey next weekend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Felix Engelhardt:<br><\/span><em>\u201cIt\u2019s an incredible feeling. Everyone dreams of this. There\u2019s nothing better than wearing the champion\u2019s jersey, especially when heading to the most important race in the world: the Tour de France.<br><br>It was an amazing race. On the last lap, I was on the verge of cramping and lost contact. I rode the descent as hard as I could and managed to get back on, then gave it absolutely everything I had left in the sprint!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">2026 German Road Race Championships &#8211; Results<br><\/span>1.&nbsp;<strong>Felix Engelhardt (Team Jayco AlUla)&nbsp;<\/strong>4:38:08<br>2. Lennart Jasch ST<br>3. Nico Denz ST<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Photo: Sprint Cycling<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Felix Engelhardt&nbsp;has claimed his first elite men\u2019s road race title at the&nbsp;German Road Race Championships&nbsp;in Bad Liebenstein. &nbsp; In the scorching heat of the Thuringian Forest, the 25-year-old rider&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52617,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[296,386],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenedgecycling.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52616"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenedgecycling.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenedgecycling.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenedgecycling.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenedgecycling.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52616"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/greenedgecycling.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52619,"href":"https:\/\/greenedgecycling.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52616\/revisions\/52619"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenedgecycling.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenedgecycling.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenedgecycling.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenedgecycling.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}