Olaf Ludwig
Olaf Ludwig (2002)
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| Personal information | |
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| Full name | Olaf Ludwig |
| Date of birth | April 13 1960 |
| Country | Germany |
| Team information | |
| Current team | Retired |
| Discipline | Road |
| Role | Rider |
| Rider type | Sprinter |
| Major wins | |
| Tour de France green jersey (1990) Amstel Gold Race |
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| Infobox last updated on: | |
| April 16, 2007 | |
| Medal record | |||
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| Olympic Games | |||
| Competitor for |
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| Road bicycle racing | |||
| Gold | 1988 Seoul | Men's Individual Road Race | |
| Silver | 1980 Moscow | Men's 100 km Team Time Trial | |
| World Championships | |||
| Bronze | 1993 Oslo | Elite Men's Road Race | |
Olaf Ludwig (born April 13 1960 in Gera) is a former German racing cyclist. As an East German, he spent the majority of his career racing as an amateur until the reunification of Germany allowed him to become professional with the Dutch Panasonic cycling team, one of the leading teams at the time. As a specialist sprinter, perhaps the highlight of his career was winning the maillot vert (green jersey) in the 1990 Tour de France. (Oddly, the jersey was sponsored that year by Panasonic.) Other career highlights included winning 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 contemporary sprinting rivals included Mario Cipollini, Wilfried Nelissen and Djamolidine Abdoujaparov.
In 1993 he joined Team Telekom, later to become the T-Mobile Team. On retirement in 1996 he took up a post in public relations for the team. More recently he became principal team manager, but his involvement with the team finished at the end of the 2006 season.
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 | ||
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| Preceded by |
East German
Sportsman of the Year 1986 |
Succeeded by |
| Preceded by |
East German
Sportsman of the Year 1988 |
Succeeded by |
| Sporting positions | ||
| Preceded by |
UCI Road World Cup
Champion 1992 |
Succeeded by |
| Preceded by |
Winner of the green jersey in the Tour
de France 1990 |
Succeeded by |
| 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: Attillio 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 |
| Persondata | |
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| NAME | Ludwig, Olaf |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | |
| SHORT DESCRIPTION | German racing cyclist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 13 1960 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Gera |
| DATE OF DEATH | |
| PLACE OF DEATH | |
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