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Lexware Mountainbike Team – Cross-country promotion of young talent at top level!

Anyone talking about competitive MTB sport in Germany cannot ignore the Lexware Mountain Bike Team. Since its foundation in 2008, no other team has produced so many talents and won so many medals at national and international junior competitions. 

Names such as Georg Egger, Luca Schwarzbauer, Martin Vidaurre and Max Brandl are representative of the professionals who were moulded in the team and are now among the world’s best. Team boss Daniel Berhe consistently focusses on promoting young talent and combines top-class sport with committed work with young talent. Around 200 MTB-enthusiastic children and young people train regularly at SV Kirchzarten, all with the dream of one day joining the professional team. This clear focus – to promote the sport sustainably and develop talent – forms the basis for the multi-year partnership with MAGURA. The team will continue to rely on MT8 brakes from Bad Urach in 2025. 

“Sport shapes us and shows us that we can exceed our potential. Especially as part of a team, we realise what potential we have. Competitive sport reflects the essential values of our society!”- Daniel Berhe 

The team will reinvent itself once again for 2025: With Max Brandl, Nina Benz and David List, three elite professionals have left the team in favour of adult teams.   
But what would be a loss for other teams is hard confirmation of the concept:   

“We are proud to have brought more talents into the professional ranks! That’s what we’re all about.  
And we are delighted that Lexware is continuing on this path with us. In the World Cup, there is no other team in the world that has had the same main sponsor since 2008. Without the trust in our work, athletes like Luca Schwarzbauer, Martin Vidaurre and many other athletes would never have been able to establish themselves at the top of the mountain bike world. We cannot thank our sponsors and Magura often enough for this.” 

New to Lexware in 2025 are US champion and World Championship fourth-placed Nicholas Konecny, World Cup podium candidate Elina Benoit and World Championship tenth-placed Noel Toth (both from Switzerland). They strengthen the U23 team around the top performers, former junior world champion Paul Schehl and multiple German champion Sina van Thiel.  

Successes of the team:

45 x German champions  
16 x medals at world championships  
21 x medals at European Championships  
  3 x World Champion U19 / U23 
  3 x participation in the Olympics  
  2 x World Cup overall victory / U23

 

Albgold Juniors Cup  
In addition to the Lexware junior team, MAGURA 2025 is once again involved as a partner of the southern German MTB junior racing series ‘Albgold Juniors Cup’. Between June and October, children and young people up to the U19 age group will compete against each other in a total of six races – a springboard for the professionals of tomorrow and an important foundation for cycling. MAGURA is a proud supporter of the organising clubs.