Olaf Ludwig

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Olympic medal record
Men’s Cycling
Gold	1988 Seoul	Men's Individual Road Race
Silver	1980 Moscow	Men's 100 km Team Time Trial

Olaf Ludwig (born April 13, 1960 in Gera) is a former German racing cyclist. As an East German, he spent the majority of his career racing as an amateur until the reunification of Germany allowed him to become professional with the Dutch Panasonic cycling team, one of the leading teams at the time. As a specialist sprinter, perhaps the highlight of his career was winning the maillot vert (green jersey) in the 1990 Tour de France. (Oddly, the jersey was sponsored that year by Panasonic.) Other career highlights included winning 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. His contemporary sprinting rivals included Mario Cipollini, Wilfred Nelissen and Djamolidine Abdoujaparov.

In 1993 he joined Team Telekom, later to become the T-Mobile Team. On retirement in 1996 he took up a post in public relations for the team. More recently he became principal team manager, but his involvement with the team will finish at the end of the 2006 season.

[edit] Palmarès

1995

• 1st – Veenendaal-Veenendaal

1994

• 1st – Rund um den Henninger Turm

1992 – Panasonic

• 1st – Amstel Gold Race
• 1st – Quatre Jours de Dunkerque
• 1st – UCI Road World Cup Ranking
• 5th – UCI World Ranking

1991

• 1st – E3 Prijs Vlaanderen
• 9th – UCI World Ranking

1990

• Points Competition – Tour de France (Maillot vert)
• Points Competition – Tour de Trump
  • 1st, Stage 1
  • 1st, Stage 2
  • 1st, Stage 9

1988

• 1st – Summer Olympics Road Race

1986

• 1st overall – Peace Race

1983

• 1st overall – Tour de l'Avenir

1982

• 1st overall – Peace Race

Preceded by Maurizio Fondriest

UCI Road World Cup Champion 1992

Succeeded by Maurizio Fondriest

Cycling at the Summer Olympics | Olympic champions in men's individual road race

1896: Aristidis Konstantinidis | 1900-1920 | 1924: Armand Blanchonnet | 1928-1932 | 1936: Robert Charpentier | 1948: Jose Beyaert | 1952: Andre A. Noyelle | 1956: Ercole Baldini | 1960: Viktor Kapitonov | 1964: Mario Zanin | 1968: Pierfranco Vianelli | 1972: Hennie Kuiper | 1976: Bernt Johansson | 1980: Sergei Sukhoruchenkov | 1984: Alexi Grewal | 1988: Olaf Ludwig | 1992: Fabio Casartelli | 1996: Pascal Richard | 2000: Jan Ullrich | 2004: Paolo Bettini

[edit] External links

• Profile on the official T-Mobile website