Rudi Altig
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| Personal information | |
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| Full name | Rudi Altig |
| Date of birth | March 18, 1937 |
| Country | Germany |
| Team information | |
| Current team | Retired |
| Discipline | Track and road |
| Role | Rider |
| Rider type | Sprinter |
| Major wins | |
| World champion individual pursuit (1960-1961) Vuelta a España (1962) Tour de France green jersey (1962) Ronde van Vlaanderen (1964) World Cycling Championship (1966) Milan-Sanremo (1968) |
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| April 16, 2007 | |
| Medal record | |||
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Competitor for  West Germany |
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| Road bicycle racing | |||
| World Championships | |||
| Silver | 1965 San Sebastián | Elite Men's Road Race | |
| Gold | 1966 Nürburgring | Elite Men's Road Race | |
Rudi Altig (born 18 March 1937 in Mannheim, Germany) is a former leading professional track and road racing cyclist during the 1960s and a current TV commentator.
In 1960 and 1961, Altig became world champion in the individual pursuit on the track. On the road in 1962, he rode the Vuelta a España, winning three stages and taking overall victory. Later that summer, he wore the maillot jaune for five days in the Tour de France, winning three stages and the overall points competition, and finishing 31st overall.
Two years later, he improved to 12th in the Tour (taking another stage win in the process), having earlier in the season won his first Classic, the 1964 Ronde van Vlaanderen. In 1965 he finished second to Englishman Tom Simpson in the World professional road racing championship in San Sebastián, Spain.
But the world title was not denied for long: he won the 1966 championship not too far away from his home, at the Nürburgring. He also took three stage wins in that year's Tour de France (taking another 12th place overall) and two more in the Giro d'Italia (for an eventual 13th place).
The second and final Classic win came in the 1968 Milan-Sanremo. He also took two stages of that year's Vuelta, finishing 18th overall. In 1969 he finished 9th in the Giro, and won the prologue individual time trial of the Tour de France.
[edit] Six-day track star
An accomplished track rider, Altig recorded 22 six-day victories:
- (with Hans Junkermann)
- 1962: Berlin, Münster
- 1963: Essen
- 1964: Essen
- (with Fritz Pfenninger)
- 1964: Dortmund, Frankfurt am Main
- 1970: Dortmund
- 1971: Bremen, Cologne
- (with Dieter Kemper)
- 1965: Berlin, Frankfurt a. M.
- 1966: Bremen, Cologne
- (with Sigi Renz)
- 1965: Cologne
- 1966: Berlin, Dortmund, Zürich
- 1968: Bremen, Cologne
- 1969: Ghent
- (with Patrick Sercu)
- 1968: Dortmund, Frankfurt a. M.
- (with Klaus Bugdahl)
- 1968: Münster
[edit] Road race victories
- 1960
- Narbonne
- Caen
- Nantua
- Issoire
- Gourin
- Plonéour-Lanvern
- Lodève
- 1961
- Round of Aix
- Trédion
- 1962
- Vuelta a España
Winner overall classification- Winner stages 2, 7 and 15
- G.P of Cannes
- Man' X Trophy
- Lorient
- Chief-Buttons
- Montélimar
- Vayrac
- Trofeo Baracchi (with Jacques Anquetil)
- Critérium of the Aces
- Tour de France
- 31 place overall classification
- Winner stages 1, 3 and 17
Winner green jersey- Wearing yellow jersey during 5 days
- 1963
- Paris-Luxembourg
- Geneva-Nice
- La Bastide d'Armagnac
- 1964
- German road race Championship
- Ronde van Vlaanderen
- Tour of Dortmund
- G.P of Parisian (chrono by teams)
- 8th stage (b) of Paris-Nice
- Colmar
- Vichy
- Tour de France
- 12th place overall classification
- Winner 4th stage
- Wearing yellow jersey during 4 days
- 1965
- Vuelta a España: 1st stage
- Bussières
- Cavaillon
- 1966
World road race champion- Tour of Piedmont
- Tour of Tuscany
- Critérium de Wengen
- Limoges
- Bain-de-Bretagne
- Montélimar
- Riom
- Bol d'Or des Monédières
- Tour de France
- 12th place overall classification
- Winner stages 1, 12 and 22B
- Wearing yellow jersey during 9 days
- Giro d'Italia
- 13 place overall classification
- Winner stages 7 and 11
- 1967
- Milan-Vignola
- Cronostaffetta (with Gianni Motta and Franco Balmamion)
- Baden-Baden
- 1968
- Milan-Sanremo
- Vuelta a España
- 18th place overall classification
- Winner stages 3B and 5
- 1969
- G.P of Lugano
- Mende
- Felletin
- Seignelay
- Maël-Pestivien
- Sallanches
- Tour de France
- Winner prologue
- Wearing yellow jersey for 1 day
- 1970
- German road race Championship
- Rund um den Henninger Turm
- Sassari-Cagliari
- G.P of Diessenhofen
- Critérium de Grobbendonck
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| Awards | ||
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| Preceded by Hans-Joachim Klein |
German Sportsman of the Year 1966 |
Succeeded by Kurt Bendlin |
| Sporting positions | ||
| Preceded by Tom Simpson |
World Road Racing Champion 1966 |
Succeeded by Eddy Merckx |
| Preceded by Angelino Soler |
Winner of the Vuelta a España 1962 |
Succeeded by Jacques Anquetil |
| Preceded by André Darrigade |
Winner of the green jersey in the Tour de France 1962 |
Succeeded by Rik Van Looy |
