Dietrich Thurau
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Dietrich "Didi" Thurau (born 9 November 1954 in Frankfurt) is a retired German professional road bicycle racer. His biggest career achievements include winning the one-day classic, Liège-Bastogne-Liège, his home country's Deutschland Tour and surprising the entire field at the 1977 Tour de France by capturing four stage wins and holding onto the yellow jersey from the opening prologue for 19 days through stage 15. Thurau did win the maillot blanc as best young rider although he lost the overall lead to eventual winner Bernard Thévenet.
In the latter part of his career he was a force in track cycling's six-day racing events.
[edit] Major achievements
- 1987
- Six Days of Bremen (with Danny Clark)
- Six Days of Munich (with Urs Freuler)
- 1986
- Six Days of Bremen (with Josef Kristen)
- Six Days of Munich (with Danny Clark)
- 1984
- Six Days of Bremen (with Albert Fritz)
- 1979
- Liège-Bastogne-Liège
- 1st overall and Prologue (ITT) win – Deutschland Tour
- 10th overall – Tour de France
- 1st, Stage 19 (L'Alpe d' Huez)
- Six Days of Munich (with Patrick Sercu)
- 1978
- Züri-Metzgete
- 3rd overall – Tour of Belgium
- 1977 – Ti-Raleigh
- 5th overall – Tour de France
- 1st, Prologue (ITT)
- 1st, Stage 2
- 1st, Stage 5b (ITT)
- 1st, Stage 16
- 1st, Stage 22a (ITT)
- Maillot jaune for 19 days (after Prologue through Stage 15a)
- Maillot blanc (Best Young Rider)
- 3rd, Maillot vert
- 1976
- 1st, Points classification, Vuelta a España
German Road Race Champion
- 1975
- Tour de Picardie
