Jan Ullrich

Jan Ullrich

Jan Ullrich (2014)
Personal information
Full name	Jan Ullrich
Nickname	Der Kaiser, Der Jan, Der Junge, The Yoyo
Born	(1973-12-02) 2 December 1973 (age 43) , East Germany
Height	1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Weight	72 kg (159 lb; 11.3 st)
Team information
Current team	Retired
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Rider type	All-rounder
Amateur team(s)
1987	SG Dynamo Rostock
1987–1989	SC Dynamo Berlin
1991	SC Berlin
1992–1994	RG Hamburg
Professional team(s)
1995–2002	Team Telekom
2003	Team Coast
2003	Team Bianchi
2004–2006	T-Mobile Team
Major wins
Grand Tours Tour de France General Classification (1997) Young Riders Classification (1996, 1997, 1998) 7 Stages Vuelta a España General Classification (1999) 2 Stages Stage races Tour de Suisse General Classification (2004) One-day races and Classics World Time Trial Champion (1999, 2001) Amateur World Road Race Cycling Champion (1993) National Time Trial Champion (1995) National Road Race Champion (1997, 2001) Olympic Road Race Champion (2000) Vattenfall Cyclassics (1997) Rund um Köln (2003)
Medal record Representing  Germany Road bicycle racing Olympic Games 2000 Sydney Road race 2000 Sydney Time trial World Championships 1993 Oslo Amateur road race 1994 Catania Time trial 1999 Verona Time trial 2001 Lisbon Time trial

Grand Tours

Stage races

One-day races and Classics

Jan Ullrich (German pronunciation: [ˈjan ˈʊlrɪç]); born 2 December 1973) is a German former professional road bicycle racer. Ullrich won a gold and a silver in the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. He won the 1999 Vuelta a España and the HEW Cyclassics in front of a home crowd in Hamburg in 1997. He had podium finishes in the hilly classic Clásica de San Sebastián. His victorious ride in the 1997 Tour de France led to a bicycle boom in Germany. He retired in February 2007.

In 2006, Ullrich was barred from the Tour de France amid speculation of having doped. In February 2012, Ullrich was found guilty of a doping offence by the Court of Arbitration for Sport. He was retroactively banned from 22 August 2011, and all results gained since May 2005 were removed from his Palmarès. He admitted to blood doping in 2013.

Ullrich won his first bicycle race at the age of nine. He was educated in the sports training system of the German Democratic Republic attending the KJS sports school in Berlin in 1986. In 1988, he was champion of the German Democratic Republic. The school closed two years after the fall of the Berlin wall in 1989. He, his trainer Peter Sager, and teammates joined an amateur club in Hamburg until 1994. In 1991, he was 5th in the amateur cyclo-cross world championships.

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