Kim Andersen (cyclist)

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Kim Andersen ( Tour de Romandie 2011 )

Kim Andersen (born October 2, 1958 in Malling , Denmark ) is a Danish cycling manager and former cyclist . His active career spanned the years from 1980 to 1992.

Athletic career

Andersen became known as the first life-long banned doping offender in cycling. He tested positive at the Coppa Placci 1985, the Walloon Arrow 1986 (he finished second) and the Tour du Limousin 1987. However, the sentence was reduced to one year a year later. Another positive test in 1992 ended his driving career.

In his career he won three stages of the Tour de France and one of the Vuelta a España and finished three times the smaller Tour of Denmark as the overall winner.

Professional

He has been active as a sporting director in cycling since 1998 , including from 2004 to 2010 at Team Team Saxo Bank , where he was dismissed in June 2010 when it became known that he was helping to build a new racing team together with racing drivers Andy and Fränk Schleck Based in Luxembourg for the 2011 season. He has been in charge of the Trek-Segafredo team since 2011 .

Career

Successes (selection)
Teams as racing drivers
Teams as sporting director

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Prominent doping cases in cycling (see 1988) (faz.net)
  2. ↑ Positive tests from Andersen (Dutch) (radsportseiten.net)  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.radsportseiten.net  
  3. ↑ Cartel of the Stained (spiegel.de)
  4. ↑ radsport-news.com: "Riis dismisses sports director - Schleck brothers before jumping", accessed on June 28, 2010

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SURNAME Andersen, Kim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH October 2, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Malling