Bernhard Kohl

Bernhard Kohl

Bernhard Kohl in August 2007
To person
Date of birth	January 4, 1982 (age 38)
nation	Austria
discipline	Street
Driver type	Mountain riders
height	1.72 meters
Racing weight	61 kilograms
To the team
Current team	End of career
doping
2008	EPO (CERA)
Societies)
1994–1995 1996–2000 2001 2002	Schwölberger Bank Austria Vienna Bosch home appliances Junkers Union Elk-Haus
Team (s)
2003-2004 2005-2006 2007-2008	Rabobank GS3 T-Mobile Gerolsteiner
Most important successes
Tour des Pyrénées 2004 Austrian road champion 2006
Last updated: September 24, 2018

Bernhard Kohl (born January 4, 1982 in Vienna ) is a former Austrian cyclist and current entrepreneur . In his first professional years in 2005 and 2006, he drove for the T-Mobile team , before that he was with the Rabobank junior team . In 2007 and 2008 Kohl was involved in the Gerolsteiner team , from 2009 he should have been driving for the Belgian team Silence-Lotto , but was banned for two years due to doping at the Tour de France 2008 in November 2008. In May 2009 he ended his career as a professional cyclist.

In February 2010, Bernhard Kohl opened a bike shop in Vienna.

Career

After winning the overall ranking of the Tour des Pyrénées as an amateur in 2004 , Kohl had teething problems and only minor successes in his first year as a professional. His greatest success this year was the 7th place overall at the Tour of Austria . Kohl also came third in the international cycling criterion in Gmünd .

At the end of the season he did his first three-week tour with the Vuelta a España in 2005 .

After a good spring 2006, Kohl reached twelfth place in the overall ranking of the Tour of California and the Tour of the Basque Country and was ninth overall in the Tour de Romandie . In addition, Kohl made it onto the podium of the Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré tour , which is part of the Pro Tour , with a 3rd place overall . Kohl became Austrian state champion in road racing and Glocknerkönig as well as fifth overall in the Tour of Austria, thus underlining his status as one of the greatest hopes for Austrian cycling.

At the Vuelta a España 2006 , he was the captain of his then T-Mobile team. On the ninth stage, he paid taxes on a descent near Puerto de San Lorenzo and hurled over a guardrail 10 m down the slope at 60 km / h. Kohl, who was eighth in the ranking at the time, had to end the tour early after he was diagnosed with lung contusion .

After a few days of recovery, he was still painfully preparing for his next highlight, the 2006 road cycling world championship in Salzburg . Kohl ended the "home World Cup" prematurely after long leadership work.

The 2007 season that Kohl competed for the Gerolsteiner team began for him with the California Tour . He used it as training under competition conditions and finished the tour in 32nd place. Furthermore, Kohl finished the “Trial Tour de France”, Dauphiné Libéré, in 13th place overall. At the Tour de France he was able to take 30th place.

At the Tour de France 2008 he achieved his best place in fourth in the 10th stage. On July 20, 2008, he was the first Austrian in the history of the tour to top the mountain classification on the tour. He was able to defend this leadership until the end of the tour. He finished the Tour de France itself in third place overall. However, all of his 2008 Tour de France results were canceled due to doping.

2008 doping ban

On October 13, 2008, the French sports newspaper L'Équipe reported that Kohl, like his Gerolsteiner teammate and Tour roommate Stefan Schumacher, had positive results during the follow-up checks on the Tour de France doping tests by the French anti-doping authority AFLD EPO doping agent CERA had been tested. This was confirmed the following day by the National Anti-Doping Agency Austria (NADA) and on October 15, 2008 by Kohl himself in the course of a press conference.
On November 24, 2008, after a hearing by NADA, he was banned for 2 years and his 2008 Tour de France results were canceled.

Bernhard Kohl at the Wels inner city criterion on July 30, 2008

In the following year, shortly after the statements of the triathlete Lisa Hütthaler about backers and details of her doping allegations, Kohl also incriminated his ex-manager Stefan Matschiner . In October 2010, Matschiner was sentenced to a partial prison term of 15 months for attempted blood doping and the passing on of prohibited substances. On May 25, 2009 Kohl announced his retirement from active cycling in Vienna. Even after his suspension has expired, he will not contest any more races. On the same day, he justified his resignation on the ARD show Beckmann by saying that he did not want to be part of a doping system again and stated that he had been doping since the age of 20 throughout his career.

In June 2010, the Vienna public prosecutor announced that the criminal proceedings against Kohl would be discontinued. Although there was no question for the prosecution that Kohl, as he had admitted, had participated in the purchase of a blood centrifuge by Matschiner together with Michael Rasmussen and cross-country skier Christian Hoffmann , the three athletes were after the Austrian anti-doping law came into force in August 2008 To prove “no contribution acts” to blood doping . Shortly afterwards, NADA announced its decision.

Due to the large number of violations, the additional lifelong ban on the two years already imposed was reduced to four years because of Kohl's extensive confession, which means that since July 4, 2014, there was again a start authorization, which Kohl did not use.

On June 14, 2015, Kohl took part in a bike race for the first time since his suspension with the SuperGiroDolomiti , which he also won.

Private

Kohl has been married since 2010 and has a daughter (* 2011) and a son (* 2014).

Sporting successes

2004

• Tour des Pyrénées

2006

• Austrian state champion street

Awards

• Golden City Hall Man of the City of Vienna
• Golden Ring of Honor of the Wolkersdorf community in the Weinviertel (has now been returned voluntarily by Kohl)

Web links

Commons : Bernhard Kohl  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website
• Bernhard Kohl in the Radsportseiten.net database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ orf.at: "Will live without lies" , accessed on May 25, 2009
2. ↑ Bernhard Kohl opens his own bike shop
3. ↑ nachrichten.at from July 21, 2008: Climbing king Kohl is very close to the summit ( Memento from July 31, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
4. ↑ lequipe.fr of October 13, 2008: Kohl a triché lui aussi ( Memento of the original of January 22, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
5. ↑ ORF ( Memento of the original from October 17, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. orf.at of October 15, 2008: Confession to ORF.at 
6. ↑ orf.at: No mercy for cabbage ( memento of the original from March 31, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved August 19, 2012 
7. ↑ Focus : Kohl continues to unpack and burden ex-manager . April 1, 2009
8. ↑ Die Presse : Matschiner trial: 15 months partly conditional . October 11, 2010
9. ↑ Der Standard : Criminal proceedings against Kohl and Hoffmann suspended . June 10, 2010
10. ↑ NADA Austria: Press release about the doping case Bernhard Kohl (cycling) pending at the legal commission of NADA Austria ( Memento of the original from July 4th 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 986 kB). June 15, 2010  
11. ↑ Sport1.de: Kohl blocked until 2014 . June 15, 2010
12. ↑ That is the key to success report.at October 13, 2015
13. ↑ Bernhard Kohl wins "SuperGiroDolomiti" June 1, 2016
14. ^ Wedding of Bernhard Kohl
15. ↑ Bernhard Kohl - Baby is here
16. ^ Kohl at the Vienna City Hall Criterion . In: wien.gv.at , July 31, 2008, as well as
    Mayor Dr. Michael Häupl presents Bernhard Kohl with the Golden Town Hall Man , in: wien.gv.at , August 1, 2008, as well as
    Mayor Dr. Michael Häupl receives a tour dress from Bernhard Kohl , in: wien.gv.at , August 1, 2008. - Reference content accessed on April 27, 2011.
17. ↑ waiting period . nachricht.at , October 21, 2008, accessed on August 8, 2010.