Patrik Sinkewitz

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**Patrik Sinkewitz**
Personal information

Full name	Patrik Sinkewitz
Date of birth	October 20, 1980 (1980-10-20) (age 27)
Country	Germany
Height	1.73 m
Weight	63 kg
Team information
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Rider type	Climbing specialist
Professional team(s)
2001–2002 2003–2005 2006–2007	Mapei Quick Step T-Mobile Team
Major wins
Deutschland Tour (2004) Rund um den Henninger Turm (2007)
Infobox last updated on:
July 31, 2007

Patrik Sinkewitz (Fulda, October 20, 1980) is a professional German cyclist most recently riding for the T-Mobile Team cycling team. He is seen as a climbing specialist with the ability to perform well over the course of a stage race, as can be seen from his 2004 victory of the 9 stage Deutschland Tour. He has also shown good results in the one-day classic cycle races such as Liège-Bastogne-Liège where he achieved a top-10 result in the 2006 edition. In his first appearance in a Grand Tour he did not perform spectacularly, finishing in 59th place in the 2005 Tour de France. The following year, in the 2006 Tour de France he performed significantly better, finishing 23rd in the GC and achieving several good stage results.

He started his amateur career with the Quick Step-Innergetic team (known at the time as Mapei-Quick·Step TT3) and turned professional in 2003 also with the (at the time) Quick·Step-Davitamon team. Following the 2005 cycling season he moved as aforementioned to the T-Mobile Team where he had a good string of results in the early season. In the 2006 Paris-Nice race he was unimpressive, finishing in 41st position, however he steadily improved, finishing in 4th overall in the Vuelta al País Vasco , in addition to two Top-5 stage finishes. Then, in the 'Spring Classics' season, he had excellent results in three UCI ProTour races, finishing in 5th in Amstel Gold Race, 5th in the Flèche Wallonne and 4th in Liège-Bastogne-Liège. He was also selected to the T-Mobile squad for the 2006 Deutschland Tour, where he would serve as the team leader.^[1] These results combined gave him 90 UCI ProTour points, which, as of August 3 puts him in 13th place in the ProTour individual rankings.

At the Tour de France 2007 Sinkewitz failed to start Stage 9 after colliding with a spectator the previous day.^[2] On July 18, 2007, Sinkewitz "A" blood sample tested positive for using testosterone/doping and was on the same day suspended by his team T-Mobile.^[3] On July 31, 2007, Sinkewitz was fired by the T-Mobile team after he declined to have his "B" blood sample tested^[4]. He also admitted to having used Testogel, a topically applied testosterone ointment^[4]. On November 3rd, he admitted using banned EPO and blood transfusions in the past.^[5]