Uwe Ampler

Uwe Ampler

Uwe Ampler on the 1985 Thuringia Tour
To person
Full name	Uwe Ampler
Date of birth	August 11, 1964
nation	DDR Germany
discipline	Street
Driver type	Tour driver
height	1.81 meters
Racing weight	76 kilograms
doping
1999	testosterone
Team (s)
1990 1991 1992–1993 1997–1998 1999	PDM-Concorde Histor-Sigma Team Telekom Mróz Agro-Adler Brandenburg
Most important successes
1988 Olympic Games - 1986 Amateur Road World Champion team time trial
Last updated: November 20, 2019

Uwe Ampler (born August 11, 1964 in Zerbst / Anhalt ) is a former German racing cyclist and current cycling trainer.

Career

amateur

Uwe Ampler at the GDR road championship in 1984

For the first time he appeared in the men's class when he won the ranking for the best young driver at the GDR tour in 1982. Before that, he had already become the junior world champion in the team time trial twice. In the last years of the GDR , Uwe Ampler was considered one of the best amateur cyclists in the world. From 1987 to 1989 he was the first and to this day the only driver to win the peace drive three times in a row . In 1986 he also became the amateurs road world champion , and in 1988 he won the Olympic gold medal in Seoul with the GDR road quad (together with Maik Landsmann , Jan Schur and Mario Kummer ) . Like almost all road drivers in the GDR, Ampler also started on the Werner-Seelenbinder-Halle track in Berlin. There he won the "International Two-Team Championship" in 1986 with Uwe Raab as a partner.

World Championship	1983	1985	1986	1987
Road racing	35	52	1	65
Individual time trial
Team time trial

professional

After the peaceful revolution in the GDR , Ampler first became a professional with the Dutch PDM cycling team , and from 1991 with the Telekom team . However, he was unable to meet the high expectations placed on him as a tour specialist, especially during his three participations in the Tour de France . After the 1993 season, Ampler no longer got a contract. In 1996 he accused his former team, Telekom , of having doped him against his own will , but lost in court. A year later, Ampler continued his career with the second-class Polish Mróz team and, in 1998, surprisingly won the peace drive for the fourth time. After Steffen Wesemann (five wins) and on a par with Ryszard Szurkowski, he is one of the most successful participants in this cycling race .

In 1999 he was under contract with the Agro-Adler Brandenburg team . After his doping ban, he drove for another six months for the Leipzig team, Bunte Berte , before ending his career.

Grand Tour placements

Grand Tour	1990	1991	1992
Vuelta a España	9	-	-
Giro d'Italia	-	-	11
Tour de France	DNF	32	DNF

Legend: DNF: did not finish , abandoned or withdrawn from the race due to timeout.

doping

Ampler tested positive for the sex hormone testosterone during the Saxony tour in 1999 . This was followed by a six-month ban until early 2000.

Private

Uwe Ampler comes from a cycling family, his father Klaus Ampler won the Peace Ride in 1963 . His son Rick (* 1989) is also a professional cyclist. In autumn 2003 Ampler was seriously injured in a bicycle traffic accident.

Uwe Ampler has been working as a trainer in the youth department of the AC Leipzig cycling club since November 2012 .

Honors

Ampler was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit in gold in 1984 and 1986 . In 1988 he received the Star of Friendship of Nations .

Web links

Commons : Uwe Ampler  - Collection of Images

• Website by Uwe Ampler
• Uwe Ampler in the Radsportseiten.net database
• Uwe Ampler in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ welt.de of August 2, 1999: A positive doping test ruins Uwe Amplers reputation for good
2. ↑ mdr.de from July 3, 2012: Uwe Amplers accident ( memento of the original from November 1, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ Landessportgymnasium Sachsen