Michael Rich
Michael Rich (2004) | |
To person | |
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Date of birth | 23rd September 1969 |
nation | Germany |
discipline | Road / rail (endurance) |
Driver type | Time trial |
End of career | 2006 |
Societies) | |
2007 | RV Concordia Reute |
Team (s) | |
1999-2006 | Team Gerolsteiner |
Most important successes | |
Last updated: February 20, 2018 |
Michael Rich (born September 23, 1969 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) is a former German cyclist and Olympic champion . His favorite discipline was the individual time trial .
Athletic career
Michael Rich was a member of the RSV Öschelbronn association . In 1988 Michael Rich first started at the 1988 Summer Olympics / cycling at the Olympic Games. In the team pursuit on the track , he took tenth place with Thomas Dürst , Matthias Lange and Uwe Nepp . Then he shifted his sporting focus to the road . Four year later, at the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona, he was in the team time trial over 100 kilometers on the road together with Bernd Dittert , Christian Meyer and Uwe Peschel Olympic champion . In 1996 , Rich started again at the Olympics, finishing tenth in the individual time trial , and in 2004 he narrowly missed the podium with fourth place in the individual time trial.
From 1999 to 2006 Rich drove for the German professional cycling team Gerolsteiner . He won a total of five German championship titles in the time trial, most recently in June 2005. At the time trial world championships , he came second three times ( 2000 , 2002 , 2004 ) and third place in 2003 . At the road world championships on September 22, 2005, he finished a disappointing 15th place for him.
Rich won the last two events of the French time trial classic Grand Prix des Nations in 2003 and 2004. On the Germany Tour 2004 he won the opening time trial with a 25-second lead over Jan Ullrich and thus won the yellow jersey, which he did on the third stage to the eventual overall winner Patrik Sinkewitz lost. His greatest successes in tours were winning the Tour de la Somme in 1999 and the Bayern Tour in 2002, 2003 and 2005.
In addition to the Bayern Tour, Rich also won the Rhineland-Palatinate Tour in 2005 . Together with his teammates Markus Fothen , Sven Krauss , Sebastian Lang , Torsten Schmidt and Uwe Peschel , he won the team time trial in Eindhoven with a three-second lead over the teams from Phonak and CSC . In addition, he reached the finish line in Paris for the first time in the 2005 Tour de France , after he had to give up in the mountains in 2003 and did not start in 2004 because he wanted to prepare for his Olympic start in Athens .
Professional
In 2006 Michael Rich announced his retirement from active cycling and that he would work as a material scout for the Gerolsteiner team from 2007, among other things. Michael Rich originally trained as an industrial mechanic.
After the Gerolsteiner team was dissolved, Michael Rich worked as an editor for the specialist magazine RoadBIKE , involved in the development of Canyon bicycles and as a team coordinator for the Belgian PT Silence-Lotto (as of 2009). In terms of sport, he turned to the mountain bike .
Honors
On June 23, 1993, Michael Rich was honored with the Silver Laurel Leaf .
successes
- 1989
- 1992
- Olympic champion - team time trial
- 2000
- Overall ranking and a stage Tour de la Somme
- a stage tour of Bavaria
- German champion - individual time trial
- World Championship - Individual Time Trial
- 2001
- a stage tour of Lower Saxony
- 2002
- Overall ranking and a stage tour of Bavaria
- a stage Germany tour
- a stage tour of Lower Saxony
- a stage Tour du Poitou-Charentes
- World Championship - Individual Time Trial
- Chrono of the Herbier
- 2003
- Overall ranking and a stage tour of Bavaria
- German champion - individual time trial
- Pair time trial GP Eddy Merckx
- Grand Prix des Nations
- Chrono of the Herbier
- 2004
- a stage tour of Bavaria
- one stage tour of Hessen
- German champion - individual time trial
- a stage Germany tour
- World Championship - Individual Time Trial
- Grand Prix des Nations
- 2005
- Overall ranking Bayern Rundfahrt
- a stage of Ster Elektrotoer
- Team time trial Eindhoven
- German champion - individual time trial
Grand Tour placements
Grand Tour | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 |
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Giro d'Italia | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Tour de France | - | - | - | - | - | DNF | - | 130 |
Vuelta a España | 92 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Web links
- Michael Rich in the Radsportseiten.net database
- Michael Rich in the ProCyclingStats.com database
- Michael Rich in the rad-net.de database
- Michael Rich in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
Individual evidence
- ^ Rad Sport Kontakt GmbH (ed.): Rad-Bundesliga 1993 . Frankfurt am Main 1993, p. 25 .
- ↑ Rainer Kraus, Rudolf Blaha: The world has pedals and friends who pedal them . Delius Klasing, Bielefeld 2016, ISBN 978-3-667-10706-0 , p. 155 .
- ↑ Ex-professional Michael Rich in an interview: "Comfort is good for everyone". In: roadbike.de. March 24, 2009, accessed February 20, 2018 .
- ↑ Andreas Kublik: Michael Rich takes off. In: tour-magazin.de. August 30, 2015, accessed February 20, 2018 .
- ↑ Landessportbund Niedersachsen e. V., VIBSS: The Federal President and his duties in the field of sport: .... on June 23, 1993, Federal President von Weizsäcker signed .... disabled and non-disabled Soport people, namely the medal winners of the Olympic and Paralympic Games in 1992 the silver bay leaf from ...
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Rich, Michael |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German racing cyclist |
DATE OF BIRTH | 23rd September 1969 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Freiburg in Breisgau |