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Robert Förster

German cyclist

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 11, 2026
Entity authorityQ58659
Source-derived summary

Robert Förster (born 27 January 1978) is a German former professional road racing cyclist. He specialized in bunch sprints.

He turned professional in 2001, initially riding for Team Nürnberger.

His career highlights have been wins in the final (Museo del Ghisallo–Milan) stage 21 of the Giro d'Italia 2006, and stage 15 (Motilla del Palancar – Ford factory, Almussafes) of the 2006 Vuelta.

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Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1978, 2001, 2006—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1978-01-27. For this dossier, Robert, Förster and German is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from Robert Förster” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.