Rudy Pevenage

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Rudy Pevenage

Personal information
Full name	Rudy Pevenage
Nickname	de rosse van Moerbeke
Date of birth	June 15, 1954 (1954-06-15) (age 53)
Country	Belgium
Team information
Current team	Retired
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Rider type	Sprinter
Professional team(s)
1976-1980 1981-1982 1983-1986 1987-1988	IJsboerke Capri Sonne Del Tongo Superconfex
Managerial team(s)
1989 1990-1993 1994-2002 2003 2006	Histor La William Telekom Coast/Bianchi T-Mobile
Major wins
Tour de France 1980: 2nd stage Winner points classification
Infobox last updated on:
February 8, 2007

Rudy Pevenage (Moerbeke, June 15, 1954) is a former Belgian cyclist, and later in his career team coach of cycling teams such as Histor, La William, Team Bianchi and T-Mobile Team.

Pevenage was a professional cyclist from 1976 until 1988. His largest success was in the Tour de France: he won one stage and was crowned best sprinter. In 1979 he reached second place in the Tour de Suisse. He also spent nine days in the Yellow Jersey. His nickname was de rosse van Moerbeke.

After his cycling career, Pevenage became a team manager. Pevanage was team manager of Deutsche Telekom when Jan Ullrich started his career. In 2002, when Ullrich was forced to leave the team, Pevenage followed Ullrich to his new team Bianchi. After a good 2003 Tour de France, Ullrich returned to Telekom, without Pevenage.^[1]. In 2006, Pevenage returned to Telekom (then renamed T-Mobile). When Ullrich was suspected of using illegal doping in Operación Puerto and was fired by T-Mobile Team, Pevenage also had to leave. He was rumoured to have worked as a connection between Ullrich and the Spanish Eufemiano Fuentes.^[2]

[edit] Major achievements

Sporting positions
Preceded by Bernard Hinault	Winner of the green jersey in the Tour de France 1980	Succeeded by Freddy Maertens

v • d • e Tour de France Maillot vert (Green jersey) winners 1953 Fritz Schär · 1954 Ferdinand Kübler · 1955-1956 Stan Ockers · 1957 Jean Forestier · 1958 Jean Graczyk · 1959 André Darrigade · 1960 Jean Graczyk · 1961 André Darrigade · 1962 Rudi Altig · 1963 Rik van Looy · 1964-1965 Jan Janssen · 1966 Willy Planckaert · 1967 Jan Janssen · 1968 Franco Bitossi · 1969 Eddy Merckx · 1970 Walter Godefroot · 1971-1972 Eddy Merckx · 1973 Herman van Springel · 1974 Patrick Sercu · 1975 Rik Van Linden · 1976 Freddy Maertens · 1977 Jacques Esclassan · 1978 Freddy Maertens · 1979 Bernard Hinault · 1980 Rudy Pevenage · 1981 Freddy Maertens · 1982-1983 Seán Kelly · 1984 Frank Hoste · 1985 Seán Kelly · 1986 Eric Vanderaerden · 1987 Jean-Paul van Poppel · 1988 Eddy Planckaert · 1989 Seán Kelly · 1990 Olaf Ludwig · 1991 Djamolidine Abdoujaparov · 1992 Laurent Jalabert · 1993-1994 Djamolidine Abdoujaparov · 1995 Laurent Jalabert · 1996-2001 Erik Zabel · 2002 Robbie McEwen · 2003 Baden Cooke · 2004 Robbie McEwen · 2005 Thor Hushovd · 2006 Robbie McEwen · 2007 Tom Boonen

[edit] Notes

1. ^ "Preparing for next season sooner", An interview with Rudy Pevenage. Deutsche Welle (2004-11-09). Retrieved on 2007-07-04.
2. ^ T-Mobile Sacks Ullrich Mentor. Deutsche Welle (2006-07-10). Retrieved on 2007-07-04.

[edit] External links

• Official Tour de France results for Rudy Pevenage
• Palmares for Rudy Pevenage (Dutch)