Florian Lipowitz

Florian Lipowitz (born 21 September 2000) is a German racing cyclist racing for UCI WorldTeam .

Personal life, transition & education Lipowitz was raised in an athletic family; his father is known for being involved in many endurance sports, while his older brother Philipp became a professional biathlete. In his youth, Lipowitz took part in long-distance bike racing events alongside his father, who occasionally entered the same races, setting the stage for his early interest in road cycling. He subsequently attended the Schigymnasium Stams, an elite sports boarding school in Austria, where he focused on biathlon before graduating with his Matura in 2020. Following a series of injuries in biathlon, he transitioned fully to road bicycle racing, eventually rising to the WorldTour ranks. Alongside his professional cycling career, he has stated in 2021 that he planned to start a degree in computer science at a distance learning university.

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 Championships 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.

Lipowitz was forced to abandon the 2026 Tour de France during the stage 16 time trial after crashing and breaking his collarbone.

Major results

Sources:

2021 5th Overall Giro della Valle d'Aosta 10th Overall Grand Prix Jeseníky 2022 8th GP Capodarco 2023 (2 pro wins) 1st Overall Czech Tour 1st Points classification 1st Stage 2 4th Overall Tour of Turkey 6th Overall Sibiu Cycling Tour 2024 (1) 1st Overall Sibiu Cycling Tour 1st Mountains classification 2nd Road race, National Road Championships 3rd Overall Tour de Romandie 7th Overall Vuelta a España Held after Stages 6, 9–10 & 15 2025 2nd Overall Paris–Nice 1st Young rider classification 3rd Overall Tour de France 1st Young rider classification 3rd Overall Critérium du Dauphiné 1st Young rider classification 4th Overall Tour of the Basque Country 2026 (3) 1st Overall Tour of Slovenia 1st Mountains classification 1st Stages 4 & 5 1st (TTT) Trofeo Ses Salines 2nd Overall Tour of the Basque Country 2nd Overall Tour de Romandie 3rd Overall Volta a Catalunya 8th Overall Volta ao Algarve

General classification results timeline Grand Tour general classification results Grand Tour 2023 2024 2025 2026 Giro d'Italia — DNF — — Tour de France — —3 DNF Vuelta a España —7 — Major stage race general classification results Race 2023 2024 2025 2026 Paris–Nice — —2 — Tirreno–Adriatico — — — — Volta a Catalunya — 45 —3 Tour of the Basque Country 75 —42 Tour de Romandie —3 —2 Critérium du Dauphiné — —3 — Tour de Suisse — — — —

+ Legend — Did not compete DNF Did not finish