Ole Ritter
Ole Ritter c. 1970
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| Full name | Ole Jørgen Phister Ritter | ||||||||||||
| Born |
29 August 1941 Slagelse, Denmark |
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| Height | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) | ||||||||||||
| Weight | 74 kg (163 lb) | ||||||||||||
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| Current team | Retired | ||||||||||||
| Discipline | Road & Track | ||||||||||||
| Role | Rider | ||||||||||||
| Rider type | Time trial | ||||||||||||
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| 1967–1970 | Germanvox | ||||||||||||
| 1971–1972 | Dreher | ||||||||||||
| 1973 | Bianchi | ||||||||||||
| 1974–1975 | Filotex | ||||||||||||
| 1976–1977 | Sanson | ||||||||||||
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Ole Ritter (born 29 August 1941) is a former Danish racing cyclist, mainly known for breaking the hour record in 1968.
As an amateur he rode for ABC Denmark. His breakthrough came in 1962 where he won 2 silver medals at the world championship in Italy, Individual & 100 km team time trial. Ritter took part in the 1964 Summer Olympics. He rode the individual road race and finished in 74th place, and was part of the Danish team in the team time trial that finished seventh.
He became Danish champion twice (1962 and 1966), and Scandinavian champion once (1966)and in 1965 went to Italy to break the world record on the 100 km.
In 1967 he became professional in Italy with the Germanvox-Wega team and his career took off. He won the individual time trial in the Giro d'Italia in front of Rudi Altig, Eddy Merckx and Jacques Anquetil. This time trial was just short of one hour, and Anquetil remarked that Ritter would have broken the hour record.
In 1968 he went to Mexico City before the Olympic Games, to accompany the Italian amateur cyclists and help them get used to the altitude. Since time on the track was scarce, the Italian team did not want to give Ritter much track time. On the day before the Olympics started, Ritter was allowed to ride in the morning, and he beat the hour record. He was the first rider to take the record at altitude since Willie Hamilton in 1898. He covered 48.653 km and it took four years and Eddy Merckx to beat it (49.431 km in 1972).
In 1974 at the age of 33 he went to Mexico again and beat his personal record twice in a week, with 48.739 and 48.879 km.
Ritter finished 47th in the 1975 Tour de France. He rode the Giro d'Italia nine times, and is the Danish rider with the best GC finish (seventh, in 1973) and the most stage wins (three).
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