Dirk Müller (cyclist)
Dirk Müller (born August 4, 1973 in Bad Hersfeld ) is a German racing cyclist . His greatest success was winning the German Road Cycling Championships in 2006.
Athletic career
Dirk Müller has been a cyclist since 1988. His greatest successes include a. Victories in the Saxony Tour and the Carinthia Tour in Austria. In addition, he was a stage winner at the International Tour of Bavaria and, alongside Lance Armstrong, took third place in the Tour of Luxembourg in the years up to 1998. Due to a doping ban in 2001, he temporarily resigned from cycling. In 2006 he started a comeback in the Target Exist Spiuk team when he won the German road bike championship. In 2008 he won the Cinturón a Mallorca tour and the Grand Prix of Sochi stage race, and the Tour of China in 2010 . In 2011 Müller became German mountain champion and thus won his second German championship title.
doping
In August 2000 Dirk Müller was tested positive for the doping agent hCG on the Regio-Tour International and was banned for six months. The year before, his name had been mentioned in connection with doping suspicions against the Telekom team .
successes
- 1993
- a stage tour of Bavaria
- 1995
- 1996
- one stage of the Giro delle Regioni
- a stage tour of Lower Saxony
- 1997
- a stage tour of Bavaria
- Around the Hainleite
- 1998
- two stages tour of Bavaria
- a stage Saxony tour
- 2006
- 2007
- 2008
- Cinturón a Mallorca and a stage
- Grand Prix of Sochi and three stages
- a stage Grande Prémio Internacional de Torres Vedras
- 2009
- 2010
- Pomerania tour
- Tour of China , prologue and one stage
- 2011
Teams
- 1997 SG EC / Bayer Worringen
- 1998 Team Deutsche Telekom
- 1999 Mapei-Quick-Step
- 2000 Post Swiss team
- 2002 Team Cologne
- 2006 Team Sparkasse (from July 3rd)
- 2007–2008 Sparkasse team
- 2009–2011 Team Nutrixxion Sparkasse
- 2012–2013 Nutrixxion Abus
Web links
- Dirk Müller in the Radsportseiten.net database
- Portrait on rad-net.de
- Official website
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dirk Müller also captain at Nutrixxion in 2010. radsport-news.com, November 13, 2009, accessed January 24, 2014 .
- ↑ List of doping cases on cycling4fans.de , accessed on January 30, 2014.
- ↑ 1999: The Telekom and Doping Team - Schein und Sein on cycling4fans.de , accessed on January 30, 2014.
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Müller, Dirk |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German racing cyclist |
DATE OF BIRTH | 4th August 1973 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Bad Hersfeld |