Uwe Raab

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Uwe Raab Road cycling
1987 in Görlsdorf
1987 in Görlsdorf
To person
Date of birth July 26, 1962
nation Germany Democratic Republic 1949GDR DDR Germany
GermanyGermany 
discipline Street
height 1.80 meters
Racing weight 73 kilograms
doping
No
Societies)
-1989 SC DHfK Leipzig
Team (s)
1990-1992
1993-1995
PDM
Team Telekom
Last updated: October 12, 2019

Uwe Raab (born July 26, 1962 in Lutherstadt Wittenberg , Halle district , GDR ) is a former German road cyclist and world champion in cycling.

Athletic career

Raab started cycling in 1973 at BSG Chemie Piesteritz. In 1976 he moved to SC DHfK Leipzig. In 1983 he became the UCI world champion in the amateur road race . In the same year he was voted GDR athlete of the year . He was unable to take part in the 1984 Summer Olympics because of the boycott of the GDR . At the 1986 World Cup , he won bronze in the 100 km team drive and was fourth in the individual race. At the Olympic Games in Seoul in 1988 , he finished 23rd in the road race.

From 1983 to 1989 he took part in the International Peace Tour seven times and won eight stages, three in 1983 alone. Uwe Raab started for the SC DHfK Leipzig during his GDR days and trained with Klaus Ampler . After reunification he was one of the first GDR athletes to gain a foothold as a professional cyclist: first from 1990 to 1992 for the Dutch team PDM , later from 1993 to 1995 for the Telekom team . He took part in the Tour de France (1990, 1991, 1993 and 1994), the Giro d'Italia and the Vuelta a España . His most important successes in the professional field include two stage wins at Tirreno-Adriatico in 1992 and 1993. He was also successful at the Vuelta in 1990 and 1991. In these two years he won the jersey of the driver with the best points and four stages. Raab completed an apprenticeship as a motor vehicle mechanic. After the end of his sports career, he became the sporting director of the Nuremberg cycling team . In Dessau-Roßlau he runs a cycling shop with his business partner Thomas Siegel (nickname Tomek). In 2007 he became head of the Wittenberg Cycling Days.

Grand Tour placements

Grand Tour 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994
Golden jersey Vuelta a España 58 43 61 - -
Maglia Rosa Giro d'Italia - - - DNF DNF
Yellow jersey Tour de France 87 DNF - 98 84
Legend: DNF: did not finish , abandoned or withdrawn from the race due to timeout.

Honors

In 1984 and 1986 he was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit.

Private

Raab is married and has two children.

In the course of the Team Telekom doping affair , he made the following comments at the end of May 2007: “Yes, the team management approached me. When I refused, I was out of the window, my career sealed. "

Individual evidence

  1. ^ German Cycling Association of the GDR (ed.): The cyclist . No. 19/1982 . Berlin, S. 1 .
  2. History - Tour de France 2018. Accessed October 10, 2018 .
  3. Statistics Tirreno - Adriatico 1993 on www.radsportseiten.net
  4. ^ German Cycling Association of the GDR (ed.): The cyclist . No. 33/1982 . Berlin, S. 2 .
  5. ^ New Germany , 1./2. September 1984, p. 4
  6. Neues Deutschland, October 15, 1986, p. 7
  7. Ullrich's ex-trainer: Jan, you have to talk now! ( Memento of the original from May 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , May 25, 2007 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bild.t-online.de

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