Roger Kluge

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Roger Kluge Road cycling
Roger Kluge (r.) With Theo Reinhardt as world champion in the two-man team driving 2018
Roger Kluge (r.) With Theo Reinhardt as
world champion in the two-man team driving 2018
To person
Date of birth 5th February 1986
nation GermanyGermany Germany
discipline Train / street
Driver type Endurance (track) / sprinter (road)
To the team
Current team Lotto Soudal
function driver
Societies)
2004-2007 RK final spurt in 1909 Cottbus
Team (s)
2008–2009
2010
2011–2012
2013
2014–2016
2017
2018
2019– 		LKT Team Brandenburg
Team Milram
Team Argos-Shimano
Team NetApp-Endura
IAM Cycling
Orica-Scott
Mitchelton-Scott
Lotto Soudal
Most important successes
Olympic games
2008 points racesilver
UCI track world championships
2018, 2019 World Champion two-man team driving
2016 silver Omnium
European championships
2010 European Champion OmniumEuropean champion
2009 European champion European champion two-man team driving
Giro d'Italia
2016 17th stage
Last updated: March 15, 2020
Kluge at the German rail championships in 2014

Roger Kluge (born February 5, 1986 in Eisenhüttenstadt , Frankfurt (Oder) district , GDR ) is a German racing cyclist who is active on track and road .

Athletic career

Roger Kluge won several medals on the track as a junior. From 2005 he drove in the U23 class, where in 2006 he won the UIV Cup , a junior competition for six-day drivers in Copenhagen . In the same year he won the bronze medal in Madison with Marcel Kalz at the European U23 Championships in Ballerup , Denmark , and in 2009 he was European champion in two-man team driving with Robert Bartko . In 2010 he won the European Championship in the Omnium . He also won a total of four six-day races .

At the Olympic Games in Beijing in 2008 , Kluge won the silver medal behind the Spaniard Joan Llaneras in the points race .

For winning the silver medal at the 2008 Olympic Games, he received the silver laurel leaf from Federal President Köhler.

On the road, Kluge achieved successes in sections of smaller international stage races up to 2009 and two overall victories in the Brandenburg Tour in the BDR calendar in 2007 and 2008 . In 2010 he joined the UCI ProTeam Milram and won the category 1.1 - one-day race Neuseen Classics - all about brown coal for the team . With the Tour de France 2014 he finished his first Grand Tour in 139th place . In 2016 he started the Giro d'Italia for the second time in his career and was able to record his greatest success on the road to date: on May 25, after an attack on the last kilometer, he won the 17th stage over 196 kilometers from Molveno to Cassano d'Adda .

Also in 2016, Roger Kluge was runner-up in the Omnium world championship . In the same year Kluge was nominated for participation in the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro , where he finished sixth in the Omnium.

At the UCI World Railroad Championships in Apeldoorn in 2018 , Roger Kluge and Theo Reinhardt became world champions in two-man team driving. The two riders were able to repeat this success the following year at the World Track Championships in Pruszków , Poland , although Kluge finished the last stage of the UAE Tour in Dubai on the road the day before . It was not until noon on the day of the competition that he landed at Warsaw Airport. From there he was picked up by a supervisor and driven to Pruszkow by car. The following year, Kluge and Reinhardt did not succeed in defending the world title again: At the UCI Track World Championships 2020 in Berlin , the team came in third.

Miscellaneous

In March 2018, Kluge suffered a type of minor stroke ( transient ischemic attack ). In October 2019, he therefore underwent a heart procedure, the interventional closure of a persistent foramen ovale. He started the six-day race in Ghent back in November .

successes

Street

2008
2009
2010
2015
2016
2018

train

2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
  • German champions German champion - one's pursuit
2013
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019
2020

Grand Tour placements

Grand Tour 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020
Maglia Rosa Giro d'Italia - - - - - 162 137 - - DNF ...
Yellow jersey Tour de France DNF - - - 139 - - - - 150 ...
Red jersey Vuelta a España - - - - - - - - - - ...
Legend: DNF: did not finish , abandoned or withdrawn from the race due to timeout.

Web links

Commons : Roger Kluge  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ German.China.ORG.CN: November 21, 2008 Sports honor: .... Federal President Koehler has awarded the medal winners of the Beijing Olympic and Paralympic Games 2008 with the silver laurel leaf.
  2. ↑ Kluge lets the competition stand while sitting. radsportnews.com, May 25, 2016, accessed May 26, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Smart 's Crazy Trip a case for every sports year review. radsportnews.com, March 4, 2019, accessed March 16, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Roger Kluge can attack again after a heart operation. In: trackcycling-berlin.com. Retrieved November 16, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Kluge, Roger
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German racing cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH 5th February 1986
PLACE OF BIRTH Eisenhuettenstadt , Frankfurt district , GDR