Florian Lipowitz


Florian Lipowitz is a German racing cyclist racing for UCI WorldTeam.
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Career

Lipowitz originally competed in the biathlon and used cycling as training during the summer. After a knee injury, he had to increase his cycling training and met Dan Lorang, the performance director of. In 2020, he switched fully to cycling and joined Austrian UCI Continental team.
In 2021 Lipowitz was part of the team that sent to the 2021 Adriatica Ionica Race. After finishing thirteenth in the second stage, 2:03 down on the winner, he held onto his position in the Overall to finish thirteenth Overall and fourth in the youth classification.
Lipowitz joined UCI WorldTeam as a Stagiaire from August to the end of 2022 before joining the team on a two-year contract. He took his first professional victory in 2023, winning the overall title as well as stage two and the points classification of the Czech Tour.
In April 2024, Lipowitz claimed his first podium position at an UCI World Tour stage race finishing third at the Tour de Romandie. At the Giro d'Italia he placed fifth on stage two but had to withdraw from his first Grand Tour after stage five. At the German Road Cycling Championchips he was only beaten by Marco Brenner and came second. For the 2024 Vuelta a España his job was the support of Primož Roglič in the mountains. While Roglič won the tour Lipowitz was able to finish as seventh overall and second in the young rider classification.
In 2025, Florian Lipowitz came out on top in the young rider classification of Paris-Nice at the age of 24 and was only beaten in the overall standings by Matteo Jorgenson from the United States. A month later, he finished the Tour of the Basque Country in fourth place overall, having appeared set to move up into 2nd before a bad-timed mechanical. At the Critérium du Dauphiné in June, he finished third, beaten only by Tadej Pogačar and Jonas Vingegaard. He also won the young rider classification as best young professional. At the Tour de France, Lipowitz finished in third place overall, again beaten only by Pogačar and Vingegaard, and won the best young rider classification.

Major results

Sources:
;2021
;2022
;2023
;2024
;2025
;2026

General classification results timeline

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