Jan Ullrich

Jan Ullrich
Ullrich in 2016
Personal information
Full nameJan Ullrich
NicknameDer Kaiser (The Emperor)
Der Jan
Der Junge (The Young one)
The Yoyo[1]
Born (1973-12-02) 2 December 1973 (age 50)
Rostock, East Germany
Height1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Weight73 kg (161 lb; 11 st 7 lb)
Team information
DisciplineRoad
RoleRider
Rider typeAll-rounder
Amateur teams
1987SG Dynamo Rostock
1987–1989SC Dynamo Berlin
1991SC Berlin
1992–1994RG Hamburg
Professional teams
1995–2002Team Telekom
2003Team Coast
2004–2006T-Mobile Team
Major wins
Grand Tours
Tour de France
General classification (1997)
Young riders classification (1996, 1997, 1998)
7 individual stages (1996, 1997, 1998, 2003)
Vuelta a España
General classification (1999)
2 individual stages (1999)

Stage races

Tour de Suisse (2004)

One-day races and Classics

Olympic Road Race (2000)
World Time Trial Championships (1999, 2001)
National Road Race Championships (1997, 2001)
National Time Trial Championships (1995)
Medal record
Representing  Germany
Men's road bicycle racing
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 2000 Sydney Road race
Silver medal – second place 2000 Sydney Time trial
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 1993 Oslo Amateur road race
Gold medal – first place 1999 Verona Time trial
Gold medal – first place 2001 Lisbon Time trial
Bronze medal – third place 1994 Catania Time trial

Jan Ullrich (German pronunciation: [jan ˈʊlʁɪç] ⓘ; born 2 December 1973) is a German former professional road bicycle racer. Ullrich won gold and silver medals 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.[2][3] In 2013 he admitted to blood doping, and in 2023 to using performance enhancing substances.[4]

  1. ^ Clarke, Stuart (5 November 2015). "13 of the strangest nicknames in cycling". Cycling Weekly. Retrieved 11 May 2016.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference Jan Ullrich CAS ruling was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ "Jan Ullrich given two-year ban from CAS". Cyclingnews. Future Publishing limited. 9 February 2012. Retrieved 9 February 2012.
  4. ^ Farrand, Stephen (23 November 2023). "'Yes, I doped' - Jan Ullrich makes full doping confession". cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 24 November 2023.