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Olaf Ludwig
Ludwig in 2002Personal information Full name Olaf Ludwig Born 13 April 1960
GermanyTeam information Current team Retired Discipline Road Role Rider Rider type Sprinter Major wins Tour de France green jersey (1990)
Amstel Gold Race (1992)Medal recordRoad bicycle racing Competitor for East Germany
Olympic Games Gold 1988 Seoul Individual road race Silver 1980 Moscow Team time trial Competitor for Germany
World Championships Bronze 1993 Oslo Professional road race Infobox last updated on
20 January 2008Olaf Ludwig (born 13 April 1960 in Gera, Thuringia) is a former German racing cyclist. His career began at the SG Dynamo Gera/ Sportvereinigung (SV) Dynamo.[1] As an East German, he raced as an amateur until reunification of Germany allowed him to become professional with Panasonic team. As a sprinter, the highlight of his career was winning the maillot vert (green jersey) in the 1990 Tour de France. Other highlights include the Olympic road race in Seoul in 1988, a record 38 stage victories in the Peace Race, winning the Amstel Gold Race in 1992, and podium placings in the Paris–Roubaix. He also won the 1992 UCI Road World Cup. His sprinting rivals included Mario Cipollini, Wilfried Nelissen and Djamolidine Abdoujaparov.
In 1993 he joined Team Telekom, later T-Mobile Team. On retirement in 1996 he took up public relations for the team. He subsequently became principal team manager, but his involvement with the team finished at the end of 2006 .
Palmarès
- 1982
- 1st overall – Peace Race
- 1983
- 1st overall – Tour de l'Avenir
- 1986
- 1st overall – Peace Race
- 1988
1st – Summer Olympics Road Race
- 1990
Points Competition – Tour de France (Maillot vert)
- Points Competition – Tour de Trump
- 1st, Stage 1
- 1st, Stage 2
- 1st, Stage 9
- 1991
- 1st – E3 Prijs Vlaanderen
- 9th – UCI World Ranking
- 1992 – Panasonic
- 1st – Amstel Gold Race
- 1st – Quatre Jours de Dunkerque
- 1st – UCI Road World Cup Ranking
- 1st – GP de Fourmies
- 5th – UCI World Ranking
- 1994
- 1st – Rund um den Henninger Turm
- 1995
- 1st – Veenendaal–Veenendaal
Awards Preceded by
Jens WeißflogEast German Sportsman of the Year
1986Succeeded by
Torsten VossPreceded by
Torsten VossEast German Sportsman of the Year
1988Succeeded by
Andreas WeckerUCI Road World Cup, UCI ProTour and UCI World Tour winners UCI Road World Cup 1989 Sean Kelly · 1990 Gianni Bugno · 1991 Maurizio Fondriest · 1992 Olaf Ludwig · 1993 Maurizio Fondriest · 1994 Gianluca Bortolami · 1995 Johan Museeuw · 1996 Johan Museeuw · 1997 Michele Bartoli · 1998 Michele Bartoli · 1999 Andrei Tchmil · 2000 Erik Zabel · 2001 Erik Dekker · 2002 Paolo Bettini · 2003 Paolo Bettini · 2004 Paolo Bettini
UCI ProTour UCI World Tour 2009 Alberto Contador · 2010 Joaquim Rodríguez · 2011 Philippe Gilbert
Cycling at the Summer Olympics | Olympic Champions in Men's Individual Road Race 1896: Aristidis Konstantinidis | 1900–1908 | 1912: Rudolph Lewis | 1920: Harry Stenqvist | 1924: Armand Blanchonnet | 1928: Henry Hansen | 1932: Attilio Pavesi | 1936: Robert Charpentier | 1948: José Beyaert | 1952: André Noyelle | 1956: Ercole Baldini | 1960: Viktor Kapitonov | 1964: Mario Zanin | 1968: Pierfranco Vianelli | 1972: Hennie Kuiper | 1976: Bernt Johansson | 1980: Sergei Sukhoruchenkov | 1984: Alexi Grewal | 1988: Olaf Ludwig | 1992: Fabio Casartelli | 1996: Pascal Richard | 2000: Jan Ullrich | 2004: Paolo Bettini | 2008: Samuel SánchezReferences
Categories:- 1960 births
- Living people
- People from Gera
- German cyclists
- German Tour de France stage winners
- Tour de France Champs Elysées stage winners
- Olympic cyclists of East Germany
- Cyclists at the 1980 Summer Olympics
- Cyclists at the 1988 Summer Olympics
- Cyclists at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- Olympic gold medalists for East Germany
- Olympic silver medalists for East Germany
- Olympic cyclists of Germany
- Olympic medalists in cycling
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