Jörg Jaksche

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Jörg Jaksche Road cycling
Jörg Jaksche, 2007
Jörg Jaksche, 2007
To person
Date of birth July 23, 1976
nation GermanyGermany Germany
discipline Street
doping
1997-2006 miscellaneous (confession)
Team (s)
1997–1998
1999–2000
2001–2003
2004
2005–2006
2007
2009 		Polti
T-Mobile Team
ONCE
CSC
Team Liberty Seguros
Tinkoff Credit Systems
Cinelli-OPD
Most important successes

Mediterranean cruise 2004
Paris – Nice 2004

Last updated: August 30, 2008
Tour de France 2005

Jörg Jaksche (born July 23, 1976 in Fürth ) is a former German racing cyclist who admitted doping as a key witness during his career.

Sporting successes

Jaksche started cycling in 1989 after his father gave him a racing bike. He contested his first race in April 1989, already as a member of the RSG Ansbach club. Jörg Jaksche was able to achieve a title as German champion when he won the junior championship in 1994 . He also won a world title. In 1997 he won the title of military world champion in road racing.

He became a professional in 1997 with the Italian cycling team Polti . The following year he finished 18th in the 1998 Tour de France, which was overshadowed by the Festina affair , thanks to the withdrawal of the Spanish teams.

After Jaksche drove for Team Telekom in 1999 and 2000 (see the doping scandal Team Telekom ), in 2001 he switched to the ONCE team (later called Liberty Seguros) of - as later became known - manager Manolo Saiz, who was involved in the Fuentes doping scandal . He drove for this team until 2003 and from 2005 to 2007. In 2004 he drove for Team CSC from team manager Bjarne Riis , who later admitted to having doped during his career. At the 2001 Tour de France , he wore the white jersey for the best young rider for five days . Jaksche's most successful year as a professional cyclist was the 2004 season, in which he won the overall rankings of the stage races Mediterranean Tour and Paris-Nice .

Confession of doping

Jörg Jaksche is one of the professional cyclists who were involved in the Fuentes doping scandal involving the gynecologist Eufemiano Fuentes in May 2006 . After initially denying any involvement, Jaksche confessed to the news magazine Der Spiegel at the end of June 2007 that he had been doping for years under the guidance of his supervisors and doctors. As part of a widespread system, he started taking EPO in 1997 and, as a customer of Eufemiano Fuentes, began taking banned autologous blood therapies in 2005. Jaksche said in the interview that he wanted to help clear up the "Puerto" affair and thereby effect a shorter ban for himself.

He hoped for the application of the leniency program and is now showing himself to be cooperative, after he had been removed from the starting list for the German road championships in Wiesbaden the week before by the Association of German Cyclists . In autumn 2007 Jörg Jaksche declared that Bjarne Riis had threatened him with "massive consequences" if Jaksche mentioned names in his doping confession. The Dane supposedly wanted to “make sure that Jaksche never comes back to cycling”.

Resignation and comeback attempts

On April 25, 2008, Jörg Jaksche announced his retirement from cycling. This came after he received a rejection from Team Milram . In 2008 he worked as a columnist for Spiegel Online during the Tour de France .

On November 29, 2008 it was announced that Jaksche wanted to start his comeback with the Italian Continental Team Cinelli-OPD , but this team did not receive a license for the 2009 season.

At the beginning of 2011 Jaksche planned a comeback with the Christina Watches-Onfone team . After the doping incidents of Riccardo Ricco and Patrik Sinkewitz , which became known in the spring of 2011 , Jaksche expressed the opinion that “nothing has changed in the cycling scene”. He canceled the Christina Watches-Onfone team and decided not to make a comeback.

successes

2002
2004
2007

Grand Tour placements

Grand Tour 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005
Maglia Rosa Giro d'Italia - - - - - - - -
Yellow jersey Tour de France 18th 80 - 29 31 17th - 16
Golden jersey Vuelta a España - 35 - DNF DNF 129 44 -
Legend: DNF: did not finish , abandoned or withdrawn from the race due to timeout.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Saarländischer Rundfunk (Ed.): Tour de France 2002 . Saarbrücken 2002, p. 34 .
  2. ↑ Jürgen Löhle: The Tour de France. German professionals and their successes . Delius-Klasing, Bielefeld 2017, ISBN 978-3-667-10922-4 , p. 158 .
  3. ↑ Jaksche admits years of doping, Spiegel Online, June 30, 2007
  4. ↑ Lothar Gorris, Detlef Hacke, Udo Ludwig: Bellas Blut, Interview on Spiegel Online, July 2, 2007
  5. ↑ Riis is said to have threatened Jaksche Spiegel Online , October 29, 2007
  6. ↑ Jaksche ends his career ( memento of May 6, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) on sport.ard.de of April 25, 2008
  7. ↑ Jörg Jaksche signs in Italy , live-radsport.ch, November 29, 2008
  8. ↑ Jaksche comeback failed for the time being ( memento of the original from February 17, 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. , rp-online.de, February 13, 2009 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.rp-online.de
  9. ↑ Andreas Rüttenauer: Fear is always in the background , interview in the taz, April 23, 2011
personal data
SURNAME Jaksche, Jörg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German racing cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH July 23, 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Fuerth