Dirk Baldinger

Dirk Baldinger (born August 27, 1971 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) is a former German cyclist .

As an amateur, he started for the TSV Betzingen club. In 1993 Dirk Baldinger came second in the overall ranking of the Rhineland-Palatinate Tour . The following year he became German champion in the amateur road race and won the Giro delle Regioni .

In 1995 Baldinger became a professional , initially riding for the Polti cycling team and later for the Telekom team and the Nürnberger team . In 1995 and 1996 he started the Tour de France , but could not finish it both times. His departure in 1995 took place under tragic circumstances: On July 18th, on the 15th stage, Baldinger was involved in a mass fall in which the Italian cyclist Fabio Casartelli was fatally injured. Baldinger himself was hospitalized with a broken pelvis . On this tour he wore the white jersey for the best young driver for one day . In 2002 he ended his active cycling career.

Baldinger remained connected to cycling as the first chairman of the Edelweiß Merdingen cycling club in 1923 . He is also involved in local politics. In 2016 he took over the sporting management of the UCI Women's Team Cervélo Bigla , of which he was already assistant sporting director in 2015 . In 2018 he switched to WNT Rotor Pro Cycling as Sports Director .

Web links

• Dirk Baldinger in the Radsportseiten.net database
• Dirk Baldinger in the Tour de France database(French / English )

Individual evidence

1. ^ Rad Sport Kontakt GmbH (ed.): Rad-Bundesliga 1993 . Frankfurt am Main 1993, p. 31 .
2. ↑ Baldinger was the last German amateur road champion. Then the separation of amateurs and professionals was lifted.
3. ↑ The quiet departure of the former bearer of hope on radsport-forum.de v. November 8, 2001 ( Memento from August 16, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
4. ↑ Jürgen Löhle: The Tour de France. German professionals and their successes . Delius-Klasing, Bielefeld 2017, ISBN 978-3-667-10922-4 , p. 158 .
5. ↑ goodbye-race.de
6. ↑ merdingen-rv.de
7. ↑ martin-ehret.com ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 401 kB)
8. ^ Cervélo-Bigla Pro Cycling in the ProCyclingStats.com database
9. ↑ Bigla Cycling Team 2015 in the ProCyclingStats.com database
10. ↑ Dirk Baldinger becomes Director Sportif at WNT - ROTOR Pro Cycling. In: wnt-rotor-pro-cycling.com. September 26, 2018, accessed November 6, 2018 .