Without Florian Lipowitz and Nils Politt, the German professionals start at the World Road Radium Championship in Rwanda.
The German champion Georg Zimmermann, Maximilian Schachmann and Jonas Rutsch are among the most experienced drivers of the squad at the first World Cup in an African country. Felix Engelhardt, Miguel Heidemann and Florian Stork complete the group of six, as the national association German cycling announced.
The waiver of the Tour-de-France-Trote Lipowitz was recently known. The World Cup was also out of the question for Politt – the important helper in the team around superstar Tadej Pogacar.
The route of the street race with 5,475 meters of altitude and additional challenges such as vaccinations held the 31-year-old from Cologne from participation.
Many top stars not there
Many top stars such as Jonas Vingegaard, Wout van Aert and ex-world champion Mathieu van der Poel do not take part in the World Cup held from September 21 to 28. Defending champion Pogacar, who won the tour four times, will start.
In the women, the unique Tour-de-France-Stppen winner Ricarda Bauernfeind, the three-time Giro daily winner Liane Lippert, nominated German champion Franziska Koch and Antonia Niedermaier.
Niedermaier will contest the individual time trial at the start. The German time trial master Schachmann and Heidemann began to start the clock a day later.