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Rick Zabel (* 7 December 1993 in Unna) is a professional road race cyclist from Germany.

Cycling Career
In 2009, Rick Zabel, who started for the "RSC Turbine Erfurt", in Albert Richter velodrome in Cologne German champions in two-man team riding in the junior class (with Thomas Schneider ). The following year he obtained from the Deutsche Bahn Championships in Cottbus (with Schneider also), he won a third place respectively in the vice championship of juniors in the two-team driving the points race and in the team pursuit. (with the train of four of the National Association of Thuringia) 2011 he won around Cologne and around the financial center of Eschborn-Frankfurt in the U19 age group. The UCI Road World Championships 2011 in Copenhagen, he was fifth in the road race in the juniors.

By summer of 2011 visited Zabel the Pierre-de-Coubertin-Gymnasium (sports gymnasium with adjoining mainstream part) in Erfurt. He left high school without a diploma, in order for the year 2012 his first professional contract with Rabobank Continental to sign. The greatest success in his first year in the adult sector was the victory of the German road championship in the U23 class. Der größte Erfolg in seinem ersten Jahr im Erwachsenenbereich war der Sieg bei der Deutschen Straßenmeisterschaft in der Klasse U23.

Palmares

 * 2012
 * German road cycling champion (U23)


 * 2013
 * 1 stage Tour de Normandie
 * Tour of Flanders (U23)

Personal
He is the son of Erik Zabel and grandson of Detlef Zabel.

Teams

 * 2012 Rabobank Continental
 * 2013 Rabobank Development Team

Weblinks

 * {Radsportseiten|67078}
 * bz-berlin.de: „Jetzt spricht Zabel junior“
 * sr-online.de: „Der Nachwuchs radelt“