Olaf Ludwig
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Olympic medal record | |||
Men’s Cycling | |||
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Gold | 1988 Seoul | Men's Individual Road Race | |
Silver | 1980 Moscow | Men's 100 km Team Time Trial |
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, Wilfred 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 will finish at the end of the 2006 season.
[edit] Palmarès
- 1995
- 1st – Veenendaal-Veenendaal
- 1994
- 1st – Rund um den Henninger Turm
- 1992 – Panasonic
- 1st – Amstel Gold Race
- 1st – Quatre Jours de Dunkerque
- 1st – UCI Road World Cup Ranking
- 5th – UCI World Ranking
- 1991
- 1st – E3 Prijs Vlaanderen
- 9th – UCI World Ranking
- 1990
- Points Competition – Tour de France (Maillot vert)
- Points Competition – Tour de Trump
- 1st, Stage 1
- 1st, Stage 2
- 1st, Stage 9
- 1988
- 1st – Summer Olympics Road Race
- 1986
- 1st overall – Peace Race
- 1983
- 1st overall – Tour de l'Avenir
- 1982
- 1st overall – Peace Race
Preceded by Maurizio Fondriest |
UCI Road World Cup Champion 1992 |
Succeeded by Maurizio Fondriest |
Cycling at the Summer Olympics | Olympic champions in men's individual road race |
1896: Aristidis Konstantinidis | 1900-1920 | 1924: Armand Blanchonnet | 1928-1932 | 1936: Robert Charpentier | 1948: Jose Beyaert | 1952: Andre A. 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 |
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Categories: 1960 births | Living people | Natives of Thuringia | German cyclists | German Tour de France stage winners | Tour de France Champs Elysées stage winners | Olympic competitors for East Germany | Cyclists at the 1980 Summer Olympics | Cyclists at the 1988 Summer Olympics | Olympic gold medalists for East Germany | Olympic silver medalists for East Germany