Michael Rich

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Michael Rich Road cycling
Michael Rich (2004)
Michael Rich (2004)
To person
Date of birth 23rd September 1969
nation GermanyGermany 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
Olympic games
1992 gold - team time trial
UCI Road World Championships
2000, 2002, 2004 silver - individual time trial
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
  • German champions German amateur champion - individual time trial
1992
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005

Grand Tour placements

Grand Tour 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005
Maglia Rosa Giro d'Italia - - - - - - - -
Yellow jersey Tour de France - - - - - DNF - 130
Golden jersey Vuelta a España 92 - - - - - - -
Legend: DNF: did not finish , abandoned or withdrawn from the race due to timeout.

Web links

Commons : Michael Rich  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rad Sport Kontakt GmbH (ed.): Rad-Bundesliga 1993 . Frankfurt am Main 1993, p. 25 .
  2. ↑ 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 .
  3. ↑ Ex-professional Michael Rich in an interview: "Comfort is good for everyone". In: roadbike.de. March 24, 2009, accessed February 20, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Andreas Kublik: Michael Rich takes off. In: tour-magazin.de. August 30, 2015, accessed February 20, 2018 .
  5. ↑ 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
SURNAME Rich, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German racing cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH 23rd September 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Freiburg in Breisgau