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Full name | Christian Henn | ||||||||||||||
Born | Heidelberg, West Germany | 1 February 1964||||||||||||||
Height | 1.82 m (5 ft 11+1⁄2 in) | ||||||||||||||
Weight | 71 kg (157 lb; 11 st 3 lb) | ||||||||||||||
Team information | |||||||||||||||
Current team | Team Lotto–Kern Haus PSD Bank | ||||||||||||||
Discipline | Road | ||||||||||||||
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Professional teams | |||||||||||||||
1989–1991 | Carrera Jeans–Vagabond | ||||||||||||||
1992–1999 | Team Telekom | ||||||||||||||
Managerial teams | |||||||||||||||
2000 | IPM–Profirad–Schwerin | ||||||||||||||
2001–2008 | Gerolsteiner | ||||||||||||||
2009–2010 | Team Milram | ||||||||||||||
2012 | Itera–Katusha | ||||||||||||||
2012 | Team Katusha | ||||||||||||||
2014 | MLP Team Bergstraße | ||||||||||||||
2017– | Team Lotto–Kern Haus | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Christian Henn (born 11 March 1964) is a German former road racing cyclist, who won the bronze medal for West Germany in the men's individual road race at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. [1] He also won the German National Road Race Championships in 1996. [2] He was a professional rider from 1989 to 1999. After he retired after testing positive for testosterone, he admitted to doping. [3]
He now works as a directeur sportif for UCI Continental team Team Lotto–Kern Haus PSD Bank. [4]
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