Olaf Ludwig

Last updated

Olaf Ludwig
Olaf.jpg
Ludwig in 2002
Personal information
Full nameOlaf Ludwig
Born (1960-04-13) 13 April 1960 (age 63)
Gera, Bezirk Gera, East Germany
Team information
Current teamRetired
DisciplineRoad
RoleRider
Rider typeSprinter
Amateur team
1979–1989 SG Wismut Gera
Professional teams
1990–1992 Panasonic
1993–1997 Team Telekom
Major wins
Grand Tours
Tour de France
Points classification (1990)
3 individual stages
(1990, 1992, 1993)

Stage races

Peace Race (1982, 1986)

One-day races and Classics

Amstel Gold Race (1992)
E3 Harelbeke (1991)
Rund um den Henninger Turm (1994)
Medal record
Men's road bicycle racing
Representing Flag of East Germany.svg  East Germany
Olympic Games
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 1988 Seoul Individual road race
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 1980 Moscow Team time trial
Representing Flag of Germany.svg Germany
World Championships
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 1993 Oslo Road race

Olaf Ludwig (born 13 April 1960 in Gera, Bezirk Gera) is a former German racing cyclist. His career began at the SG Dynamo Gera / Sportvereinigung (SV) Dynamo. [1] As an East German, he raced as an amateur until reunification of Germany allowed him to become professional with Panasonic team. As a sprinter, the highlight of his career was winning the points classification in the 1990 Tour de France. Other highlights include the Olympic road race in Seoul in 1988, a record 38 stage victories in the Peace Race, winning the Amstel Gold Race in 1992, and podium placings in the Paris–Roubaix. He also won the 1992 UCI Road World Cup. In 1992 he won the Champs-Élysées stage in the Tour de France and won the third Tour stage of his career the following year. [2]

Contents

His sprinting rivals included Mario Cipollini, Wilfried Nelissen and Djamolidine Abdoujaparov.

In 1993 he joined Team Telekom, later T-Mobile Team. On retirement in 1996 he took up public relations for the team. He subsequently became principal team manager, but his involvement with the team finished at the end of 2006.

Major results

1978
1st Gold medal blank.svg Team time trial, UCI Junior Road World Championships
1981
1st Jersey yellow.svg Overall Niedersachsen-Rundfahrt
1982
1st Jersey yellow.svg Overall Peace Race
1983
1st Jersey yellow.svg Overall Tour de l'Avenir
1st Jersey yellow.svg Overall DDR Rundfahrt
1985
1st Jersey yellow.svg Overall DDR Rundfahrt
1986
1st Jersey yellow.svg Overall Peace Race
1988
1st Gold medal olympic.svg Road race, Olympic Games
1990
Tour de France
1st Jersey green.svg Points classification
1st Stage 8
Tour de Trump
1st Jersey green.svg Points classification
1st, Stage 1, 2 & 9
1991
1st E3 Prijs Vlaanderen
9th UCI Road World Rankings
1992
1st Jersey pink.svg Overall Four Days of Dunkirk
1st Mens World Cup leaders jersey.png UCI Road World Cup
1st Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne [3]
1st Amstel Gold Race
1st Dwars door Vlaanderen
1st Grand Prix de Fourmies
1st Stage 21 Tour de France
2nd Paris–Roubaix
5th UCI Road World Rankings
1994
1st Rund um den Henninger Turm
1995
1st Veenendaal–Veenendaal
1996
1st Stage 2 Vuelta a Andalucía
3rd Overall Four Days of Dunkirk
1st Stage 1
3rd Overall Three Days of De Panne
1st Stage 1
3rd Omloop Het Volk
5th E3 Prijs Vlaanderen
8th Rund um den Henninger Turm

Books

Olaf Ludwig: Höllenritt auf der Himmelsleiter. Etappen meines Lebens. Herausgegeben von Helmut Wengel. RhinoVerlag, Arnstadt & Weimar 1997, ISBN   3-932081-18-8 (german)

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Sergei Ivanov (cyclist)</span> Soviet cyclist

Sergei Valeryevich Ivanov is a former professional road bicycle racer, who competed between 1996 and 2011. Ivanov had been a member of six different teams, competing for CSKA Lada–Samara, TVM–Farm Frites, Fassa Bortolo, T-Mobile Team, Astana and Team Katusha. In this time he completed in five Grand Tours, and also won six national championship titles. He also won the Tour de Pologne 1998. He finished his sports career in 2009

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Johan Museeuw</span> Belgian racing cyclist

Johan Museeuw is a retired Belgian professional road racing cyclist who was a professional from 1988 until 2004. Nicknamed The Lion of Flanders, he was particularly successful in the cobbled classics of Flanders and Northern France and was considered one of the best classic races specialists of the 1990s.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Andrei Tchmil</span> Soviet cyclist

Andrei Tchmil is a retired Soviet, Moldovan (1992–1994), Ukrainian (1994–1998) and Belgian professional road bicycle racer. He competed in the men's individual road race at the 1996 Summer Olympics.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Rolf Sørensen</span> Danish cyclist

Rolf Sørensen is a former Danish professional road bicycle racer. He is currently working as a cycling commentator and agent. Born in Helsinge in Denmark, Sørensen moved to Italy at the age of 17, where he has lived since. He goes under the name Il Biondo due to his blonde hair.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Hennie Kuiper</span> Dutch cyclist

Hendrikus Andreas "Hennie" Kuiper is a Dutch former professional road racing cyclist. His career includes a gold medal in the Olympic road race at Munich in 1972, becoming world professional road race champion in 1975, as well as winning four of the five "Monument" classics. He rode the Tour de France 12 times, finishing second twice and winning the stage to Alpe d'Huez on two occasions. Kuiper, Ercole Baldini and Paolo Bettini are the only riders to have won both the Olympic road race and the world professional road race.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Eric Vanderaerden</span> Belgian cyclist

Eric Vanderaerden is a Belgian retired road cyclist.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Marc Wauters</span> Belgian cyclist

Marc Wauters is a Belgian former cyclist who was professional from 1991 until 2006. The 2004 Olympian, nicknamed The Soldier was a member of the Rabobank cycling team of the UCI ProTour since 1998 and had to end his career several weeks short because of a broken collarbone which he suffered during a training on 20 September 2006.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Steffen Wesemann</span> Swiss-German racing cyclist

Steffen Wesemann is a Swiss-German former professional road racing cyclist.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Max van Heeswijk</span> Dutch cyclist (born 1973)

Max Lambert Peter van Heeswijk is a Dutch retired professional road racing cyclist. He finished 15th road race at the 2000 Summer Olympics and 17th in the road race at the 2004 Summer Olympics.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Wilfried Peeters</span> Belgian cyclist

Wilfried Peeters is a former Belgian professional road bicycle racer. Nowadays, he is sportif director of the Quick Step team. During his cycling-career, he was a major help for Johan Museeuw in classics such as the Tour of Flanders and Paris–Roubaix.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Martin Elmiger</span> Swiss cyclist

Martin Elmiger is a Swiss former road racing cyclist, who rode professionally between 2001 and 2017 for the Post Swiss Team, Phonak, Ag2r–La Mondiale, IAM Cycling and BMC Racing Team squads. During his career, Elmiger was a four-time winner of the Swiss National Road Race Championships.

Gregor Braun is a retired track cyclist and road bicycle racer from Germany, who was a professional rider from 1977 to 1989 and who became a multiple Olympic Gold medaillist and track world champion. his profession was a locksmith.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Björn Leukemans</span> Belgian road bicycle racer

Björn Leukemans is a Belgian former professional road bicycle racer. During 2008 Leukemans was suspended for doping with artificial testosterone. In 2009 he joined the Vacansoleil team. Leukemans joined Wanty–Groupe Gobert for the 2014 season, after his previous team – Vacansoleil–DCM – folded at the end of the 2013 season. Leukemans retired in 2015.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Fabio Baldato</span> Italian cyclist (born 1968)

Fabio Baldato is an Italian former racing cyclist. In 2008, he was the oldest rider in a ProTour team. His cycling career ended when he crashed heavily in the Eneco Tour. He also competed at the 1988 Summer Olympics and the 1996 Summer Olympics.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Jean-Marie Wampers</span> Belgian cyclist

Jean-Marie Wampers is a former professional road racing cyclist from Belgium. He was a professional between 1981 and 1992, achieving his greatest triumph when he won Paris–Roubaix in 1989.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Marc Demeyer</span> Belgian cyclist (1950–1982)

Marc Demeyer was a professional road racing cyclist from Avelgem, Belgium. Although known as the "master servant" for Freddy Maertens, the powerful Demeyer was able to win 60 professional road races. He died of a heart attack at the age of 31.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Henk Lubberding</span> Dutch cyclist

Henk Lubberding is a Dutch former professional road bicycle racer. He was a professional from 1977 to 1992.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Daniel Willems</span> Belgian cyclist

Daniel Willems was a Belgian road bicycle racer. Health problems ended his career in 1986. He competed in the team time trial event at the 1976 Summer Olympics.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Daniel Van Ryckeghem</span> Belgian cyclist

Daniel Van Ryckeghem was a Belgian professional road bicycle racer.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Marc Sergeant</span> Belgian cyclist

Marc Sergeant is a Belgian former professional road bicycle racer. He competed in the team time trial event at the 1980 Summer Olympics. After Sergeant stopped his cycling career, he became team manager at Lotto–Soudal. He left his management role at the end of the 2021 season. Sergeant finished a total of 6 times in the top 10 of Tour of Flanders.

References

  1. Cycling4Fans – Portraits: Ex-Profis: Ludwig, Olaf
  2. "Olaf Ludwig". Pro Cycling Stats. 14 September 2021.
  3. "Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne past winners". cyclingnews.com . 26 February 2011. Retrieved 28 February 2021.
Awards
Preceded by East German Sportsman of the Year
1986
Succeeded by
Preceded by East German Sportsman of the Year
1988
Succeeded by