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 a German who won the Tour de France. With a heart rate of resting 30 to 35, the volume of lungs is 6 liters and the size of the heart of 1200 milliliters, it is considered a miracle and talent of small sports of this century.
The fact that Ullrich won the Tour de France only once no exception for his rival, Lance American 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 Doping Doctor Spain Eufemiano Fuentes. Ullrich then made partial recognition. However, he was allowed to maintain the title of the Tour de France.
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 it grew in difficult family relationships. His father was a violent drinker who left the family when ten years old Ullrich.
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 SG Dynamo Rostock.
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 the classic Cycle of the Australian Pacific Bank Commonwealth. In 1993 he was also chosen as a “cyclist this year” Germany
Career
In 1996, Jan Ullrich signed his first professional contract with the telecom team. On the first tour of De France in 1996, Ullrich reached its first stage victory in the trial. In the overall standings, he was second behind his teammate Bjarne Riis Bjarne.
The following year, Ullrich made a large breakthrough 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. However, in 1998 Ullrich took second place behind Marco Pantai. In 1999 he won Vuelta 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 came back to the second finishing fate 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 the Fair Play 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 unlock 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 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 the ultrich career end, which he was announced in early 2007.
Amazing facts
Ullrich is the first and the only German who won the Tour de France so far
Only twenty-three, Jan Ullrich is one of the youngest winners of the Tour de France
In Ullrich adopted a merungen house, a road named according to him