| Capital: | € 9.5 million |
|---|---|
| Age: | 46 |
| Born: | 12/02/1973 |
| Country of origin: | Germany |
| Source of wealth: | Cyclist |
| Last updated: | 2020 |
Short introduction
Jan Ullrich is one of the most successful racing racing bicyclists who have produced Germany. He is the first and so far is the only German who won the Tour de France. With a heartbeat of resting 30 to 35, the volume of lungs is 6 liters and the size of the heart of 1200 milliliters, he is considered as a small sports treatment and talent of this century.
The fact that Ullrich won the de France tour was only once at least due at the rival of American Lance Armstrong, whose victory was further revoked due to doping.
However, towards the end of his career, Ullrich himself targeted by Doping researchers when his name was found on the list of customers of Spanish Doping doctor Eufemiano Fuentes. Ullrich then made a partial recognition. However, he was allowed to keep the Tour de France title.
After the end of his career, Ullrich continued to draw attention to himself with the main headlines associated with alcohol and drugs.
Early Life
Jan Ullrich was born in Rostock, where he grew in difficult family relationships. His father was a drinker of violence who left the family when Ullrich was ten years old.
Climbing made by Ullrich as a cyclist is increasingly extraordinary. At the age of nine years, he managed to win a bicycle race organized by his school. A year later, he won his first race for Rostock SG Dynamo.
Through further success, the GDR competitive sports system finally realized Ullrich, which promoted it specifically and made it possible to switch to children’s sports schools and teenagers SC Dynamo Berlin. In 1987 he won the GDR Pupil Championship in Quad, in 1988 the GDR Youth Championship in the road cycling and in the 1990 GDR youth championship at the point of cycling.
After reuniting, Ullrich moved to the West, where he celebrated his first success as an amateur, including the overall World Cup for amateurs, Bundesliga cycling and tourist victory on the Czech Bohemia tour and Australian Pacific Bank Cycle Commonwealth Bank Comment. In 1993 he was also chosen as Germany “this year’s cyclist”
Career
In 1996, Jan Ullrich signed his first professional contract with the telecom team. On the first tour of De France in 1996, Ullrich achieved its first stage victory in time trials. In the overall standings, he was behind his second team Bjarne RIIS.
The following year, Ullrich made a magnitude by winning the Tour de France. In Germany he was awarded the title of “athletes of the year”.
In the coming years, Ullrich must deal with diseases and injuries in preparation for the Tour de France. The critics accused him of lack of fitness. Even so, in 1998 Ullrich took second place behind Marco Pantai. In 1999 he won Vuelta an Espana and the Time World trial championship.
In 2000, Tour de France met Jan Ullrich and Lance Armstrong for the first time. In the end, Ullrich must be satisfied with the second place. In the same year he won the Olympic road race in Sydney and was the first German to lead in the ranked world cycling Uci.
In 2001 and 2003, Ullrich again fulfilled the fate of the second finishing at the Tour de France behind his eternal rival Lance Armstrong. However, in 2003 he achieved the first stage victory at Tour de France since 1998.
He was also awarded a fair travel badge by the German Olympic community for his reaction to the fall of his opponent Lance Armstrong. Instead of using the fall of the attack, he let Armstrong open him. At the end of the year, Ullrich returned athletes this year.
In 2004 Ullrich won the Tour de Suisse. At the Tour de France, he finished the fourth even though there was a cold problem. In 2005 he finished third again. In 2006, he was removed from the Tour de France for alleged doping related to the Fuentes scandal. The exception also marked Ullrich’s career end, which he was announced in early 2007.
Famous quotes
“I was second long enough, now it’s time for another tour win.”
“I have never cheated on any other racing driver in my career. That is a fact. ”
“From the day on, nothing was the same as before. I still don’t know how it happened. ” (Jan Ullrich on his suspension shortly before the 2006 Tour de France)
Amazing facts
Ullrich is the first and only German to have won the Tour de France so far
At just twenty-three, Jan Ullrich was one of the youngest winners of the Tour de France
In Ullrich’s adopted home of Merdingen, a street is named after him
