Tobias Bayer

Tobias Bayer (born 17 November 1999) is an Austrian racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam .

Career Bayer began his cycling career in 2015, participating in the Race Around Austria team challenge as one of his first races. In 2017, he won the Austrian junior titles in both cyclocross and the individual time trial. His father was also a cyclist and participated in the first Mountain Bike World Championships in Colorado in 1990.

In June 2019, Bayer delivered a noteworthy performance at the Austrian National Road Race Championships near Mondsee, finishing fifth overall and winning the under-23 title ahead of several World Tour professionals.

Bayer rode his first Grand Tour, Vuelta a España in 2021 and supported his captain and sprinter Jasper Philipsen in two stage victories. In 2021 he became Austrian national champion in the under-23 category in both the road race and time trial. He rode for in the men's team time trial event at the 2018 UCI Road World Championships.

From 2018 to 2021, Bayer was an active athlete in the sports division of the Austrian Armed Forces. In 2020, as a soldier-sportsman, he held the rank of Gefreiter (Private). During the 2020 Giro Ciclistico d'Italia, he finished third on the third stage and briefly led the mountains classification.

Major results Cyclo-cross 2016–2017 1st National Junior Championships

Road

2017 1st Time trial, National Junior hampionships 2nd Internationale Cottbuser Junioren-Etappenfahrt 3rd Tour de Haute-Autriche Juniors 7th Road race, UEC European Junior Championships 2018 1st Overall U23 Bundesliga Austria 2019 1st Road race, National Under-23 Championships 5th Road race, National Championships 9th Croatia–Slovenia 10th Overall Giro del Friuli-Venezia Giulia 2020 1st Time trial, National Under-23 Championships 7th Overall Giro della Friuli Venezia Giulia 2021 National Under-23 Championships 1st Road race 1st Time trial National Championships 2nd Time trial, 4th Road race 9th Overall Boucles de la Mayenne 10th Road race, UCI World Under-23 Championships 10th Road race, UEC European Under-23 Championships 2022 3rd Brussels Cycling Classic 5th Time trial, National Championships 2024 7th Volta NXT Classic 2025 3rd Road race, National Championships

Grand Tour general classification results timeline Grand Tour 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 Giro d'Italia — 100 — 96 — 80 Tour de France — — — — — Vuelta a España DNF — 141 — 132

+ Legend — Did not compete DNF Did not finish IP Race in Progress