Danilo Hondo

Danilo Hondo
Hondo at the 2008 German National Road Race Championship.
Personal information
Full nameDanilo Hondo
Born (1974-01-04) 4 January 1974 (age 50)
Guben, East Germany
Height1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)
Weight75 kg (165 lb)
Team information
Current teamRetired
DisciplineRoad
RoleRider
Rider typeSprinter
Professional teams
1997–1998Agro–Adler Brandenburg
1999–2003Team Telekom
2004–2005Gerolsteiner
2006Team Lamonta
2007Tinkoff Credit Systems
2008Diquigiovanni–Androni
2009PSK Whirlpool–Author
2010–2012Lampre–Farnese Vini
2013–2014RadioShack–Leopard
Major wins
Grand Tours
Giro d'Italia
2 individual stages (2001)

One-Day Races and Classics

National Road Race Championship (2002)
Medal record
Men's track cycling
Representing  Germany
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 1994 Palermo Team Pursuit
Bronze medal – third place 1996 Manchester Team Pursuit

Danilo Hondo (born 4 January 1974) is a German former professional road bicycle racer.[1] He won the German National Road Race in 2002.[2] He competed in the men's team pursuit at the 1996 Summer Olympics.[3]

He was banned from professional cycling and then later won his appeal to return to the sport. From January 2015 to May 2019, Hondo worked as a coach for the Swiss cycling federation, first for the under-23 squad and then with the elite. He owns a bike shop on the island of Majorca.[4]

Hondo was born in Guben, Brandenburg.

  1. ^ "Trek Factory Racing (TFR) – USA". UCI World Tour. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 2 January 2014. Retrieved 5 January 2014.
  2. ^ "National Championship, Road, Elite, Germany". Cycling Archives. Retrieved 13 September 2014.
  3. ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Danilo Hondo Olympic Results". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 5 March 2020.
  4. ^ Seppelt, Hajo; Mebus, Jörg; Bausch, Wolfgang; Winterfeldt, Jörg (12 May 2019). "Radsport: Cottbuser Ex-Profi Hondo gesteht Doping". sportschau.de (in German). Sportschau. Archived from the original on 13 May 2019. Retrieved 13 May 2019.