Rolf Sørensen

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Rolf Sørensen

Rolf Sørensen (born April 20, 1965 in Helsinge , Denmark ) is a former Danish cyclist . He is the most successful Danish cyclist of all time with a total of 53 victories in 17 professional years.

Career

Sørensen began his professional career in 1986 with the Italian team Murella-Fanini . After he had not been able to celebrate any notable successes in his first professional year, he won the 1987 Tirreno-Adriatico stage race . In 1990 he then won the Paris-Tours . In the 1991 Tour de France , the Dane wore the yellow jersey for four days , even though he had not managed to win a stage.

His best season was Sørensen in 1993 when he besides the victories in Liege-Bastogne-Liege , Milan-Turin and Around the Henninger Tower also stages in the Tour de Suisse , Tirreno-Adriatico , the Tour de Romandie and the Tour of the Basque Country reach . In the 1994 Tour de France , he celebrated his first of two victories on the 14th stage and a year later he won the 9th stage of the Giro d'Italia . After he achieved his second Tour stage victory in 1996 , a few weeks later he won the silver medal in the road race at the Summer Olympics .

In 1997 Sørensen won the Tour of Flanders . By the end of his career in 2002, he achieved further overall victories in smaller country tours.

In March 2013, Sørensen admitted that he was part of the EPO era and that he had been doping with EPO and cortisone during his career .

successes

1987

1988

1989

1990

1991

1992

1993

1994

1995

1996

1997

1998

1999

2000

Teams

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ex-Radstar Sörensen makes a doping confession. Radnet, March 18, 2013, accessed January 25, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Sørensen, Rolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sörensen, Rolf; Sorensen, Rolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH April 20, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Helsinge , Denmark