{"id":364194,"date":"2025-12-23T17:25:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T17:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/364194\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T17:25:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T17:25:09","slug":"german-top-prospect-on-neo-pro-lessons-and-world-tour-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/364194\/","title":{"rendered":"German top prospect on neo-pro lessons and World Tour reality"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nCan he win Paris-Roubaix again?\u00a0Teutenberg\u2019s biggest result to date came with his victory at Paris-Roubaix<\/a> Espoirs in 2024. \u201cIt was a super nice day. It was also pretty much the first victory for me. I won the GC of the Olympia’s Tour before, but this was the first victory where I went first over the line and could celebrate. So it was super nice to win the race and to have maybe the confirmation that I can maybe win races and achieve maybe some bigger goals and win some bigger races.\u201d<\/p>\n

Teutenberg doesn’t consider himself as a pure sprinter. Instead, he sees his future in hard and selective races. \u201cParis\u2013Roubaix is a big race, it\u2019s great. If you can win in the Velodrome with all those people around and then lift the stone, it\u2019s a magical moment.\u00a0But there are other great races. I\u2019d put the Tour of Flanders and the Worlds on the same level. It would be hard to pick, but they\u2019re definitely at the top of the list.\u201d<\/p>\n

At Lidl-Trek<\/a>, Teutenberg is surrounded by experienced winners, which he sees as a major advantage for his development. \u201cYou can always learn a lot from the older riders. From big champions you can probably learn the most – they know how to win the big races and achieve great things.”And who are the teammates from whom he can learn the most? He has a clear answer: “Mads Pedersen is a guy you can always learn something from; he works super hard, trying to beat the unbeatable. If I need a tip, he\u2019s open-minded to give it. Soren Kragh Andersen<\/a> has a lot of experience as well and he\u2019s always there if you need advice.”Adjusting to the World Tour<\/p>\n

2025 was his first full season as a pro, and it was a year to learn. Despite not winning any race, he wasn’t far in some of them. \u201cAt that level, you cannot just sprint and try to be the strongest; you have to make everything perfect. I wasn\u2019t sprinting against other U23s anymore; I was against guys who\u2019ve already won Tour stages. I was close a few times, but I made some mistakes or didn\u2019t have the legs. That\u2019s the game, I\u2019ll try again next season.\u201d<\/p>\n

Racing against top sprinters as an emerging talent has also forced him to balance respect with self-belief. \u201cYou should stay humble, the moment where I might think ‘I’ve made it’ is when you beat them. I have a lot of respect for the big guys. Sprint finals are always a bit sketchy, and sometimes it gets more difficult because you respect them so much you don\u2019t want to do anything too crazy. Being too careful doesn\u2019t help your own performance.\u201d<\/p>\n

Looking ahead, Teutenberg outlined what races he will target in 2026, revealing he might be at the start of his first Grand Tour. \u201cI\u2019ll start with the Tour Down Under<\/a>, then normally Algarve, and after that the Belgian Classics. We\u2019ll see how the year goes. If I show good performances early on, the Vuelta could be interesting.\u201d<\/p>\n

The route of the Vuelta does not really suit him, but the lack of pure sprinters may help him to shine. \u201cIt scared me a bit\u2026 pretty heavy,\u201d he admitted, \u201cbut with fewer pure sprints there might be better chances if you climb well.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Can he win Paris-Roubaix again?\u00a0Teutenberg\u2019s biggest result to date came with his victory at Paris-Roubaix Espoirs in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":364195,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,10873,50278,58563,156314,82,156315],"class_list":{"0":"post-364194","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-cycling","11":"tag-lidl-trek","12":"tag-mads-pedersen","13":"tag-paris-roubaix","14":"tag-soren-kragh-andersen","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-tim-torn-teutenberg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364194\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/364195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}