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Maximilian Schachmann

Maximilian's profile
  • Birthday: 09.01.1994
  • Nationality: Deutschland
  • Weight: 71 kg
  • Height: 183 cm
  • Team:Soudal Quick-Step
SeasonWinsRace days
2026020
2025275
2024068
2023151
2022042
2021245
2020243
2019656
2018475
2017044
2016463

Latest results of Maximilian Schachmann

DateRaceClassPos.
03.05.
Tour de Romandie - Stage 5
2.UWT62
02.05.
Tour de Romandie - Stage 4
2.UWT48
01.05.
Tour de Romandie - Stage 3
2.UWT86
30.04.
Tour de Romandie - Stage 2
2.UWT54
29.04.
Tour de Romandie - Stage 1
2.UWT58
28.04.
Tour de Romandie - Prologue
2.UWT32
26.04.
Liège-Bastogne-Liège
1.UWT30
19.04.
Amstel Gold Race
1.UWT44
17.04.
De Brabantse Pijl - La Flèche Brabançonne ME
1.Pro13
29.03.
Settimana Internazionale Coppi e Bartali - Stage 5
2.115

Top results in the general classification

RacePeriodPlacement
Paris - Nice
General classification · 2.UWT
2020 - 20212× #1
Itzulia Basque Country
General classification · 2.UWT
20251× #3
Tour de Suisse
General classification · 2.UWT
20211× #4
Itzulia Basque Country
Stages · 2.UWT
2019 - 20254× #1
Volta Ciclista a Catalunya
Stages · 2.UWT
2018 - 20192× #1
Giro d'Italia
Stages · 2.UWT
20181× #1
Paris - Nice
Stages · 2.UWT
20201× #1
Liège-Bastogne-Liège
One-day races · 1.UWT
20191× #3
Volta ao Algarve em Bicicleta
General classification · 2.Pro
20201× #2
GP Industria & Artigianato
One-day races · 1.HC
20191× #1

Teams

Maximilian Schachmann was born in Berlin in 1994 and began his professional cycling career in 2013 with the Continental team Thüringer Energie Team. Via the development team Giant-Shimano and AWT-Greenway, which was renamed Klein Constantia a year later, Schachmann then joined the World Tour team Quick-Step Floors, now Team Soudal Quick-Step, in 2017. He was initially under contract with the team for two years. Between 2019 and 2024, Schachmann rode for the German team Bora-Hansgrohe before rejoining Soudal Quick-Step for the 2025 season.

Career of Maximilian Schachmann

Schachmann feels particularly at home on hilly and mountainous terrain and is regarded as a good classics rider who can also win one-week tours. The Berliner has already taken part in all Grand Tours and has also competed in many cycling monuments. He celebrated one of his greatest successes with a stage win at the Giro d'Italia in the year 2018.

In 2018, Maximilian Schachmann celebrated his breakthrough when he won a stage of the Tour of Catalonia, stage 18 of the Giro d'Italia and stage 2 of the Deutschland Tour. At the World Championships, he also won gold in the team time trial with his Quick-Step Floors team led by Laurens de Plus, who is now competing at Ineos Grenadiers is under contract. In 2019, he finished third in the spring classic Liège-Bastogne-Liège, celebrated three stage wins in the Tour of the Basque Country and won the German championship title in the road race. In 2020 and 2021, he won the overall classification of the Paris-Nice long-distance race. Schachmann was also able to repeat the German road race championship in 2021.

Maximilian Schachmann: Illnesses and injuries

Schachmann was repeatedly thwarted by injuries and illnesses. For example, the Berlin rider broke his right foot during the 2017 Tour of Poland, and in 2018 he had to bury his hopes of a top place in the overall classification at the Giro d'Italia due to respiratory problems. On the 13th stage of the Tour de France In 2019, he broke the metacarpal bone in his left hand and was unable to continue the tour. After a collision with a car during the 2020 Tour of Lombardy, Schachmann also broke his collarbone. In 2022, he then contracted Covid-19 twice and took a break.

Schachmann on Instagram

Maximilian Schachmann is active on the well-known social media platform Instagram, where he keeps his 70,000-plus followers up to date with regular posts. There he presents his latest rides and his life as a cyclist.