Jan Ullrich
Germany's 1997 Tour winner, whose career ended in doping sanctions.
Jan Ullrich (born 2 December 1973) is a German former cyclist whose victory in the 1997 Tour de France set off a cycling boom in Germany. He also won the 1999 Vuelta a España, the 1997 HEW Cyclassics in front of a home crowd in Hamburg, gold and silver medals at the 2000 Sydney Olympics and podium places in the Clásica de San Sebastián. He was barred from the 2006 Tour amid doping suspicions and retired in February 2007; in 2012 the Court of Arbitration for Sport found him guilty of a doping offence and removed his results from May 2005, and he admitted blood doping in 2013. Raised in Rostock, where he joined SG Dynamo at a young age, he came through the East German sports-school system in Berlin and was GDR champion in 1988.
Quick Facts
- Nickname
- Der Kaiser (The Emperor)
- Der Jan
- Der Junge (The Young one)
- The Yoyo
- Born
- 2 December 1973
- Weight
- 73 kg / 161 lb
- Birthplace
- Rostock, East Germany
- Discipline
- Road
- Role
- Rider
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