Jan Ullrich
Jan Ullrich (born 2 December 1973 in Rostock, Germany) is a retired German bicycle rider. He was very good in riding in the mountains. In Individual time trials he was one of the best cyclists at his time. He won the Tour de France in 1997. Jan Ullrich is the only German athlete who has won this event.
 Ullrich in 2016 | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Jan Ullrich | ||
| Nickname | Der Kaiser, Der Jan, Der Junge, The Yoyo[1] | ||
| Born | 2 December 1973 Rostock, East Germany | ||
| Height | 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) | ||
| Weight | 73 kg (161 lb; 11 st 7 lb) | ||
| Team information | |||
| Current team | Retired | ||
| Discipline | Road | ||
| Role | Rider | ||
| Rider type | All-rounder | ||
| Major wins | |||
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Beginning
Jan Ullrich started cycling early. When he was ten years old, he won his first race. After Germany's reunification he went to a club in Hamburg. In 1993, when Ullrich was 19 years old, he won the World Amateur Road Race championship in Oslo, Norway. In this year Lance Armstrong won the Professional World Race championchip. The year after, he became third in the Individual Time Race championchip. After this succes he became a professional member of the German Team "Team-Telekom".
Tour de France
Jan Ullrich first rode the Tour de France in 1996. There he won a stage and became overall second, after his team mate Bjarne Riis. Some experts say, Jan Ullrich could have won the Tour the France that year, but he did not because he helped his team-mate over the Tour.
In 2007 Bjarne Riis said that he used drugs to win the 1996 Tour. In 1997 Jan Ullrich won the Tour the France, when he was 23 years old (fourth youngest winner of the Tour since 1947). During this year he won the Tour de Suisse, German-Tour and HEW-Cyclassics. At the end of the year, he was elected as the "sports person of the year" in Germany.
Doping
Many of Jan Ullrichs Team-members said, he was taking drugs in the 90. In 2002 he tested positive for amphetamine. He said he took pills in a disco, without knowing that they were an illegal substance. He was suspended for 6 months. In 2006 Ullrich was suspected to be a client of Fuentes. In 2007 a DNA-test gave the evidence that he was one, and that he was planning to use the illegal blood doping.[2] Ullrich denied using drugs for a long time. In 2013, Ullrich decided to tell the truth. He admitted he used illegal substances during his career.[3]
Palmarès
- 1993
Amateur World Road Race Cycling Champion- 1995
Germany National Time Trial Champion- 1996
- Tour de France
- 2nd place overall
Winner white jersey- Winner stage 20
- Regio Tour
- 1997
- Tour de France
Winner yellow jersey- Winner white jersey
- Winner stages 10 and 12
- Germany National Road Race Champion
- Luk Cup, à Bühl
- HEW Cyclassics
- 1998
- Tour de France
- 2nd place overall
- Winner white jersey
- Winner stages 7, 16 and 20
- Rund um Berlin
- Rund um die Nürnberger Altstadt
- 1999
- World Time Trial Cycling Champion
Winner Vuelta a España- 2000
- Summer Olympics Road Race Champion
- Tour de France: 2nd place
- Coppa Agostini
- 2001
- World Time Trial Cycling Champion
- Germany National Road Race Champion
- Tour de France: 2nd place
- Giro dell'Emilia
- Versatel Classic
- 2003
- Tour de France
- 2nd place
- Winner stage 12
- Rund um Köln (Tour of Cologne)
- 2004
- Tour de France: 4th place
- Tour de Suisse: winner
- Coppa Sabatini
- 2005
- Tour de France: 3rd place
- 2006
- Tour de Suisse: winner
Jan Ullrich Media
Ullrich with teammate Udo Bölts crossing the Vosges mountains during the 1997 Tour de France
Ullrich in Hanover, 2005
Differenty colored cycling jerseys as used in different cycling contests*pink jersey. Used by: * overall leader in Giro d'Italia
References
- ↑ Clarke, Stuart (5 November 2015). "13 of the strangest nicknames in cycling". Cycling Weekly. Retrieved 11 May 2016.
- ↑ Puerto blood confirmed to be Ullrich's, CyclingNews, April 4, 2007
- ↑ "Jan Ulrich admits to blood doping". Cyclingtips. 23 June 2013. Retrieved 28 June 2013.