John Degenkolb

The 25-year-old German racked up a win and a runner-up in Belgium and northern France

Terpstra attacks a powerful group of contenders in the final kilometers to reach the Roubaix velodrome alone and seize a solo victory

Several riders go down hard in E3 Harelbeke and Gent-Wevelgem

With Boonen and Cancellara fit and motivated for a monumental win, will 2014 mark the final full-steam showdown in a decade-old rivalry?

Logan VonBokel spends a little quality time with John Degenkolb's Giant Propel Advanced SL 0

In one week, the Giant-Shimano rider went from what he called the most disappointing day of his career to victory in Gent-Wevelgem

Defending champ Sagan makes a fight of it, but the Giant-Shimano speedster takes a narrow victory in a crash-marred bunch sprint

John Degenkolb and André Greipel give Germany two very different options for Sunday's sprinter-friendly Milano-Sanremo

German sprinter wins on the motor track, takes yellow on time bonus

Degenkolb scores the hat trick in the morning's road stage, but Cummings takes the overall lead after winning the afternoon's time trial

German defends his lead in France from the front ahead of Saturday's double day

German takes the sprint to open his 2014 account in France

The bike manufacturer will also sponsor a men's development team and a women's squad

The German says he's not a pure sprinter, and that he's targeting the hilly and unpredictable classics

German sprinter Marcel Kittel had a breakout season, earning 16 wins (four at the Tour). Can he repeat his success in 2014?

Management will reveal the new backer at the team presentation in January

The Argos-Shimano speedster takes the final classic of the season in convincing style, while Garmin's Farrar just misses a podium finish

Argos rider wins four stages to help Germany take six victories at the race's 100th edition

German sprinter shows that he's closing in on a Tour de France win in his first crack at the race

Three likely sprints lie ahead as the peloton makes its way from the Riviera to the mountains

Sprinters are getting less and less chances to win grand tour stages as the courses get harder

German sprint ace swallows his pride and steps away from the Giro d'Italia on the first rest day

Now a six-time stage winner in the grand tours, German John Degenkolb shares the burden of his homeland's cycling future

Prototype C50 tubular wheels adorn the German's custom F1 look-alike, which Felt built with a non-standard carbon layup

John Degenkolb takes his first Giro stage win after a late crash at the front nearly springs a second Bardiani Valvole stage win

The stocky German is less of a traditional field sprinter and more of a strongman capable of taking a tough finale

With historic courses, frenzied fans, and dynamic racing, these men are the ones to watch from Harelbeke to Roubaix

Marcel Kittel and John Degenkolb are a formidable duo for Argos-Shimano. In 2012, they combined for 25 of the team's 30 wins

The Argos-Shimano rider says the classics are the races he's most passionate about

With top performances in 2012 from world champion Cavendish, breakthrough John Degenkolb and entertaining Peter Sagan, which was our top sprint?

Mark Cavendish is International Men's Sprinter of the Year, John Degenkolb is our International Breakthrough Rider of the Year

Argos-Shimano has two strong German sprinters, but would like to land a GC rider for 2013

Mercato proves fastest of a three-man break as Argos' Degenkolb launches a late bid that misses by meters

Sprinters like John Degenkolb and puncheurs like Greg Van Avermaet are favorites for this weekend's Paris-Tours

Former U23 world champ scores five Spanish stage wins to announce his arrival on the big stage

The sprinter who hoped to win one stage has already claimed four and now eyes the points jersey

Argos man wins his fourth stage of the 2012 Vuelta

The 67th Tour of Spain is nine days old and one thing is for certain: Nothing is for certain

Movistar's Jonathan Castroviejo still holds the lead — but the mountains loom on Monday

Young German duo will head to France in the hunt for the big one

German John Degenkolb of Argos-Shimano makes it two straight, winning today's sprint in Four Days of Dunkirk

Degenkolb sprints to stage 1 win at Four Days of Dunkirk; Nuyens returns to racing

In an exclusive video interview from BrakeThrough Media, John Degenkolb talks about the confidence and pressure at Argos-Shimano on the eve of the 2012 Paris-Roubaix

John Degenkolb — the German sprint phenomenon — will join Skil-Shimano as part of a two-year contract with the Dutch team. The 22-year-old has claimed six victories in his rookie season and looks to be a star in the making.

Three-time Italian champion Giovanni Visconti and German sprint phenomenon John Degenkolb will have new teams for the coming season.

HTC-Highroad's 22-year-old German sprinter John Degenkolb outkicked Edvald Boasson Hagen (Sky) to win Thursday's stage of the Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré, a 174km trip from La Motte-Servolex to Mâcon.

LYON (AFP) - German sprinter John Degenkolb of HTC-Highroad grabbed a prestigious win after a hectic finish to the Criterium du Dauphine second stage in Lyon Tuesday.

Germany’s John Degenkolb wins the Rund um den Finanzplatz Eschborn-Frankfurt.

HTC-Highroad's John Degenkolb sprints to victory in stage one of the Three Days of West Flanders as Jesse Sergent and two RadioShack teammates top the overall standings.

John Degenkolb (HTC-Columbia) nipped Tyler Farrar (Garmin-Cervélo) to win the second stage at the Volta ao Algarve in Portugal in Thursday’s 186.5km run from Lagao to Lagos.

All four (yes, FOUR) of the men's U23 road race podium finishers at a post-race news conference.

Germany's John Degenkolb won Friday's transitional stage at the Tour de l'Avenir. Up next: the Alps

• 1. John Degenkolb, (Ger), at 3:37:05
• 2. Michael Matthews, (Aus), s.t.
• 3. Michal Kwiatkowski, (Pol), s.t.
• 4. Alexey Tsatevitch, (Rus), s.t.
• 5. Taylor Phinney, (USA), s.t.