Rolf Sørensen

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Medal record
Competitor for Flag of Denmark Denmark
Road bicycle racing
Olympic Games
Silver 1996 Atlanta Individual Road Race

Rolf Sørensen (born 20 April 1965) is a former Danish professional road bicycle racer. He is the most successful Danish bicycle racer ever, with his 53 victories over 17 seasons. 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. Many Italians consider him an Italian, and he goes under the name Il Biondo due to his blonde hair. He is married to Susanne.

[edit] Teams

Team Enter Until
Fanini 1986 1987
Ariostea 1988 1992
Carrera 1993 1993
GB-MG Maglifico 1994 1994
MG-Technogym 1995 1995
Rabobank 1996 2000
Team CSC-WorldOnline 2001 2001
Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 2002 2002

[edit] Accomplishments

Sørensen was Denmark's most prolific classics rider by far, winning such classic one-day races as the Ronde van Vlaanderen, Liège-Bastogne-Liège, Paris-Bruxelles, Paris-Tours and Milan-Turin, as well as slightly smaller races like the Coppa Bernocchi (twice), and the Rund um den Henninger Turm or Grand Prix Frankfurt. He has led the UCI Road World Cup on several occasions, finishing second in 1991 and again in 1997 after a broken foot kept him from scoring points in the last two World Cup races of the season.

Sørensen also won individual stages in the 1994 and 1996 Tour de France, and wore the yellow jersey as the leader of the race after the team time trial in 1991, won by his Italian team Ariostea. He kept until he broke his collar bone in a fall four days later.

Rolf Sørensen participated in the Tour seven times, the last in 2001. He has also won a number of stages in other stage races, among them stage 9 of the 1995 Giro d'Italia, three stages in the Vuelta al País Vasco, six stages in Tirreno-Adriatico, two in the Tour de Suisse, and two in the Tour de Romandie.

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Persondata
NAME Sørensen, Rolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION Road bicycle racer
DATE OF BIRTH 1965-04-20
PLACE OF BIRTH Helsinge, Denmark
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH