Patrick Konrad dreams of Heim-Sieg at the Tour of Austria 2025!

Patrick Konrad dreams of Heim-Sieg at the Tour of Austria 2025!

Steyr, Österreich - Patrick Konrad will compete at the Tour of Austria in 2025. His team Lidl-Trek took place on Thursday. Konrad, who has made a name for himself as a stage winner of the Tour de France, ended the Giro d’Italia as 73. A victory on this home tour would be a career highlight for the cycling professional and a dream of gaining in front of domestic fans.

The Tour of Austria will take place this year from July 9th to 13th, with the start in Steyr and the destination in Feldkirch. The tour has a long tradition that dates back to 1955 when it for the first time led through free Austria without zone borders, as tourofaustria.com.

tradition of the Tour of Austria

The first stage of the tour did not lead to Graz, but on the B1 to Linz. These initial years were shaped by exciting competitions, which also caused numerous technical problems. So the national driver Wukisevits had a bike defect during a stage and was forced to throw his bike and hike up the mountain with a stick until he received a suitable spare wheel.

From 1955 to 1957 Sweden dominated the tour with overall winners such as Nordvall, Ströhm and Göransson, while the Austrian drivers could not agree on a collaboration. The tour developed into a challenge with frequent stages over 200 kilometers, for example the route from Wels to Wattens, which was a special burden for the athletes at 245 km and the 261 km stage from Graz to Vienna.

In 1957 there was the first participation of a national team from the GDR, which further increased the international competitiveness of the tour. In the meantime remarkable events, such as the high number of defects during the Graz Vienna stage due to construction sites, shape the history of the event to date. In another significant year, 1958, the tenth edition of the tour of Austria was celebrated, in which numerous national and international drivers fight for victory.

Patrick Konrad and his team Lidl-Trek are determined to build on the historical success of the Tour of Austria and continue the tradition of outstanding achievements at this prestigious event. The entire cycling world will watch the developments in advance and during the tour and keep your fingers crossed for him to succeed in succeeding overall victory.

For further information on the history of the Tour of Austria and its traditions, we refer to the detailed experiences and anecdotes, which tourofaustria.com. The official announcements for the participation of Konrad can be found in the Krone, where the official announcement was published and details about his goal, the overall victory.