Dirk Müller (cyclist)

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Dirk Mueller

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 at the German Championship 2006 in Klingenthal

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
1995
1996
1997
1998
2006
  • MaillotAllemania.svg German champion - road race
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011

Teams

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Dirk Müller also captain at Nutrixxion in 2010. radsport-news.com, November 13, 2009, accessed January 24, 2014 .
  2. List of doping cases on cycling4fans.de , accessed on January 30, 2014.
  3. 1999: The Telekom and Doping Team - Schein und Sein on cycling4fans.de , accessed on January 30, 2014.