Jens Voigt

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Jens Voigt

Voigt at the 2007 Entega Grand Prix.
Personal information
Full name Jens Voigt
Born (1971-09-17) 17 September 1971
Grevesmühlen, East Germany
Height 1.89 m (6 ft 2 in)
Weight 76 kg (168 lb)
Team information
Current team Trek Factory Racing
Discipline Road
Role Rider
Rider type Rouleur/Breakaway specialist
Amateur team(s)
Berlin TSC
Professional team(s)
1997
1998–2003
2004–2010
2011–		 ZVVZ-Giant-Australian Institute of Sport
GAN
Team CSC
Leopard Trek
Major wins

Grand Tours

Tour de France
2 individual stages (2001, 2006) + 1 TTT (2001)
Giro d'Italia
1 individual stage (2008)

Stage races

Tour de Pologne (2008)
Critérium International (1999, 2004, 2007, 2008, 2009)
Deutschland Tour (2006, 2007)
Bayern-Rundfahrt (2000, 2001)
Tour Méditerranéen (2005)

One-day races and Classics

Grand Prix des Nations (2001)
Paris-Bourges (2003)
Duo Normand (1999, 2001)
Infobox last updated on
5 January 2014

Jens Voigt (born 17 September 1971) is a German professional road bicycle racer for UCI ProTeam Trek Factory Racing.[1] Voigt is known for his propensity to attack, and for his positive racing attitude. He is capable of repeated attacking, holding a high tempo, and breaking away from the peloton. He has worn the yellow jersey of the Tour de France twice, though he has never challenged for the overall title due to his lack of ability in the mountains. In cycling folklore, he is considered as one of the best rouleur riders to this day.

Voigt is generally popular with cycling fans, both for his aggressive riding style and his affable, forthright and articulate style in dealing with the public and media.[2][3]

Personal life

"In the hierarchy of the family, I’m just above the dog. But I like it that way."
—Jens Voigt[4]

Voigt and his wife Stephanie have six children, the youngest being born January 2011.[5]

Biography

Early life

Voigt was born in Grevesmühlen, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, about 100 km north-east of Hamburg, East Germany, in the same area as Tour de France winner Jan Ullrich. Voigt was encouraged by his parents to participate in sports, since he often got into troubles as a youngster thanks to his excessive energy. His early performance indicated he had good endurance potential, and he joined a national sports school at age 14 and trained in cycling and track and field.[5]

Career debut

He won the Peace Race in 1994 and topped the UCI "Challenge Mondial Amateurs" rankings in December 1994.[6] After a four-year stint in the German Army, much of it spent with a special sports unit,[5] he started professional cycling in 1997, winning races for the Australian team ZVVZ-Giant-Australian Institute of Sport.

In 1998, with the support of his former Australian Institute of Sport Sports Director, German-born Heiko Salzwedel he moved to the big French team GAN (which became Crédit Agricole) where he spent the five years amassing 20 wins, among them a day in the maillot jaune in the 2001 Tour de France, and a stage in the 2001 Tour de France. Voigt played a part in Jan Ullrich's 2000 Olympic Games win for the German team.

2004

"If you go (with a break), you can either win or not win. If you don't go for it, you definitely won't win."
—Jens Voigt's philosophy about breakaways.[4]

In 2004, Voigt joined his former Crédit Agricole teammate Bobby Julich with a move to Team CSC, as Saxo Bank was then known. Being tempo specialists, they formed a strong pair as they dominated the 2004 and 2005 LuK Challenge race, a two-man time trial.

Voigt rode the 2004 Tour de France for Team CSC captain Ivan Basso. Voigt and team mate Jakob Piil were often in breakaways, covering the break for CSC. On the 15th stage, Voigt was in a break as Ullrich attacked up the Col de l'Echarasson, leaving race leader Lance Armstrong and 2nd-placed Basso. With Armstrong's team unable to pull Ullrich back in, Voigt was ordered back from his breakaway to help Basso defend his place. Voigt saw Ullrich ride past as he waited for his captain, before he single-handedly closed the gap to Ullrich. Next day was a time trial up the Alpe d'Huez with 900,000 spectators at the roadside. Voigt was heckled by German fans calling him Judas for his effort to ruin fellow German Ullrich's chances. Voigt criticised German TV-channel ARD for starting a witch-hunt against him and pleaded that he was paid by Team CSC, not Germany and that (as he stated in Overcoming) thanks to his help, Ullrich won his olympic gold medal in 2000.[7]

2005

At the start of 2005, Voigt won the Tour Méditerranéen, ahead of teammates Fränk Schleck 2nd and Nicki Sørensen 4th. Voigt won the first UCI ProTour event, the prologue time trial of the 2005 Paris–Nice, a race Julich won overall. Voigt nearly won the 2005 classic Liège–Bastogne–Liège when he was beaten on the line by Alexandre Vinokourov, Voigt having been on a breakaway almost the entire race.

Voigt (front) at the 2005 Tour de France; he held the overall lead of the race for one day, after the ninth stage.

After a strong placing in the stage 1 time trial of the 2005 Tour de France, Voigt was only trailing race leader Armstrong by 1 minute and he tried hard to take the overall lead. He took part in many attacks, and the 9th stage, before the first rest day, finally got in a break-away that lasted to the line. He finished third, 3 minutes ahead of Armstrong. Voigt's time in the maillot jaune would be short-lived however, as he fell to 168th at stage 10 after a fever, and he was eliminated for failing to finish stage 11 within the time limit. Voigt ended 2005 as 29th on the UCI ProTour individual rankings.

2006

Voigt at the 2006 Ster Elektrotoer; he held the race lead after the second stage, before finishing tenth overall.

The 2006 season started at a slower pace for Voigt compared to 2005 in order to save energy and be in a position to help Basso in his quest to win the 2006 Giro d'Italia and 2006 Tour de France races.[8] His only result until the Giro in May was an attack on the fifth stage of the Tour of the Basque Country, but he had to settle for second behind stage winner Thomas Voeckler.

For the Giro d'Italia, Voigt rode in support of Basso. Following Team CSC's team time trial win on stage 5, Voigt found himself second, trailing race leader Serhiy Honchar by six seconds. During the first mountains, Voigt helped Basso take the overall lead, while he slid down the board and finished 37th. On mountainous stage 19, Voigt and Julich were in a 20-man break, but as Team CSC was leading the peloton to defend Basso's first place, Voigt and Julich did not work. Up the last climb, Voigt was alone with Spanish rider Juan Manuel Gárate, but as Voigt did not think he had done enough to deserve the victory, he let Garate take the win.[9] Voigt finally got his first win of the season in the Ster Elektrotoer race in June. Here he won stage 4 and helped teammate Kurt Asle Arvesen to the overall win, two weeks before the Tour de France.

Voigt at the 2006 Deutschland Tour, wearing the leader's jersey.

In the days before the Tour, Basso was suspended by Team CSC after his name had been brought up in the Operación Puerto doping investigation. Carlos Sastre became team captain. Voigt took the role of early attacker, to lessen the load for the team, and he formed or joined unsuccessful breakaways on several stages. On the memorable stage 13 from Béziers to Montélimar, the longest stage of the 2006 Tour at 231 km, Voigt got in a five-man breakaway which finished 29 minutes and 58 seconds ahead of the main bunch. At the line, Voigt outsprinted Óscar Pereiro to take his second Tour stage win.[10] On stage 15, Voigt helped Fränk Schleck from Luxembourg, pulling hard in the break with teammate David Zabriskie of the USA, which eventually gave Schleck the win. Voigt finished the 2006 Tour 53rd, helping Sastre finish 4th.

2007

In February 2007, Voigt won the third stage of the Tour of California, which had numerous climbs. After the bunch caught 17 escapees, Levi Leipheimer of Discovery Channel attacked, and only Chris Horner (Predictor-Lotto) and Voigt could keep up with him. Voigt ultimately prevailed in the sprint over the two men and approached to only 3 seconds behind Leipheimer for the General Classification thanks to time bonuses.[11] He managed to hold on to his second place over the next 4 stages, finishing 21 seconds behind the winner of the Tour, Leipheimer.[12] In April, he met another success at the Criterium International, winning the overall classification and stage 2, a short, undulating stage of 98.5 kilometers finishing in Monthermé. Voigt attacked near the Côte du Mont Malgré Tout, with almost 25 kilometers to go, and crossed the finish line solo, 48 seconds in front of the chasers.[13] The last stage of the race was a short individual time trial of 8.3 kilometers which was raced in the afternoon of the same day, and Voigt stated he gave everything he had but was very careful while negotiating the turns. He finished seventh, keeping his leader's jersey and winning the 3-stage race, while the Swede Thomas Lövkvist of Française des Jeux took second place.[14] Another major win of the 2007 season came for him in the Deutschland Tour, which he won for the second year in a row, with Levi Leipheimer taking second place at 1'57" and David Lopez of Caisse d'Epargne completing the overall classification podium. Voigt stated that his victory was harder to accomplish than the preceding year, when it was somewhat of a surprise. He was a marked man.[15]

2008

Voigt at the 2008 Tour of California; he contested the race despite an accident during training the week before the race.

Jens Voigt started his season by taking part in the Paris-Nice and the Tour of California, where he did not obtain high personal results. In March, Voigt grabbed his fourth success on the short stage race Critérium International, registering a victory on stage 2 in the process.[16] Another success awaited him at the stage 18 of the Giro d'Italia. He was part of a group that broke away from the field a mere 6 km (3.7 mi) into the stage. With 36 km (22 mi) to cover and a six minutes lead, Voigt left the breakaway and soloed to victory in Varese.[17] In June, he came in fifth position of his National Road Race Championship and sixth in his National Time Trial. He was a big part of his team successes in the Tour de France, protecting the leader Carlos Sastre, who won the eighteenth stage atop the Alpe d'Huez climb.[18] Before that decisive stage, the team was counting on a triple threat as far as leaders for the general classification went, with the Schleck brothers, who took fourth and sixth on that mountain stage.[18] Sastre would go on to win the Tour,[19] and the CSC team won the overall team classification.[20] Voigt was selected to represent Germany in the Beijing Olympic Games along with Fabian Wegmann, Gerald Ciolek, Bert Grabsch and Stefan Schumacher.[21] He took part in the road race, which he did not finish. He then dominated the Tour of Poland, earning an individual stage and helping his squad win the Team Time Trial in the process.[22] Citing a long and draining season, Voigt declined to participate in the World Championships, a decision that his team approved.[23]

2009

Voigt started the season well by winning the Critérium International for the fifth time in his career, tying Frenchman Raymond Poulidor's record while grabbing a stage win, the points classification and the mountains classification.[24] He abandoned the 2009 Tour on 21 July 2009 as a consequence of a violent crash suffered while descending the Col du Petit-Saint-Bernard with the yellow jersey group during stage 16. He incurred a fracture of the right cheekbone and concussion.[25] He had to skip several races to recuperate from his injuries, including the Cycling World Championship held in Mendrisio, Switzerland.[26] He was inactive for a 6 week period and came back to competition at the Tour of Missouri, where he got a warm welcome from cycling fans.[27]

2010

Voigt started his last season with team manager Bjarne Riis by participating in the Tour Down Under and the Vuelta a Mallorca. He got his first top ten result of the year in the Vuelta a Andalucia, just short of the podium in fourth position.[28] In March, Voigt participated in Paris-Nice, where he finished second of the prologue and grabbed the yellow jersey after the third stage, which was shortened 53 kilometres (33 mi) due to snowfall.[29] He lost the jersey the very next day to eventual winner Alberto Contador, but managed to finish fifth overall after Alejandro Valverde's second place was annulled for his implication in the Operación Puerto doping case.[30][31] Voigt then headed to the Volta a Catalunya, where he won stage 4 after escaping from the peloton to join a group of four riders on the last ascent of the day. He eventually was left with only Rein Taaramae to worry about, and won the sprint against the Cofidis rider.[32] In May, he scored a sixth place overall in the Tour of California thanks to consistent placings in the hilly stages and finishing fifth in the individual time trial held in Los Angeles.[33] He participated to the Tour de France as a domestique to his leaders, the Schleck brothers. Voigt survived a scare on the mountainous stage 16, where he crashed heavily on the descent of the Col de Peyresourde, destroying his bike. After getting back up, he realized that all the team cars had passed and that he would not be handed a new bike. Desperate, he borrowed a bike much too small for him, from a children group's car which was following the race.[34] He rode on it for about 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) before reaching a policeman who had another bicycle which had been left for him by his team.[35] His teammate Andy Schleck finished the Tour in second place, but was later given the title since the original winner Alberto Contador tested positive to clenbuterol.[36]

2011

Voigt at the 2011 Tour de France.

The 2011 season was to be the first one of his career in which he would not achieve a victory. He joined the newly formed Leopard Trek, following the Schleck brothers, Fabian Cancellara and four other riders coming from his 2010 team, Team Saxo Bank. Kim Andersen was the creator of that new team, being himself a former Saxo Bank manager.[37] In the spring, he took part to Paris-Nice, taking the sixth place of the first stage,[38] and then went on to help his team-mate Frank Schleck win the Critérium International. In May, he suffered a fracture to his scaphoid in a crash during the Tour of California, riding a whole stage with the injury before doctors discovered it with X-Rays.[39] He healed in time for the Tour de France, ready to sacrifice himself and put any personal ambitions aside to help his leaders, the Schleck brothers.[3] He played a pivotal role in helping the pair reach the second and third steps of the podium behind BMC Racing Team's Cadel Evans.[40] In August, Voigt went to the USA Pro Challenge, and had some good results by taking the fifth place of the prologue and then finishing eighth in the individual time trial. Designated to lead his squad in the Tour of Britain, Voigt suffered his second broken bone of the year in that race, this time a finger bone. The injury occurred in a crash on the first stage and he had to abandon. The healing process was a slow one since it took almost a month for a complete recovery to be achieved.[41]

2012

Voigt (right) at the 2012 Tour Down Under.

In 2012, Voigt was the oldest rider of the World Tour teams at 40 years old when the season started.[42] That did not stop him from going into a long breakaway on the sixth stage of Paris-Nice. After every rider had been dropped but one, Voigt was beaten in a sprint by Luis Leon Sanchez of the Rabobank team.[43] In April, Voigt participated to the Tour of the Basque Country, where a peculiar incident occurred. Voigt signed in late for a stage start, then had a bit of a verbal match against an official who complained about his lateness. He was fined 1,000 Swiss francs for what was described as “comportamiento incorrecto” (bad behavior) in a report.[44] He later had a good showing at the Tour of California, where he came in second of the fifth stage, an individual time trial contested in Bakersfield, 23 seconds behind David Zabriskie.[45] He was also part of breakaways and paced the bunch often. On the Tour de France, he finished in third position of the tenth stage. He was dropped on the slopes of the Col du Grand Colombier, but came back on the four escapees before competing in the final sprint.[46] In August, during a press conference prior to the Tour of Utah, he announced that he would continue racing through the 2013 season.[47] In the same month, Voigt took the fourth stage of the USA Pro Cycling Challenge finishing in Beaver Creek. He attacked his breakaway companions on Independence Pass, which was situated in the first third of the race, and then soloed on to victory with almost three minutes of an advantage over the chasers. He raced more than 100 kilometres (62 mi) alone, taking one of the most epic victory of his career.[48]

2013

In May, at the Tour of California, Voigt contributed to creating an echelon on stage 5, splitting the peloton in half with 55 km (34 mi) to race. The 18 riders group stayed away until Voigt attacked with 5 km (3.1 mi) to race, winning solo in Avila Beach.[49] Even at 41 years of age, he attacked on the penultimate stage of Tour de France, and won the combative award of the day before he was caught by the overall contenders, just few kilometers into the final ascent.[50]

Doping views

According to Voigt, he never doped, and was always against the practice. At the end of October 2012, Voigt wrote a long blog entry to address the turmoil caused by the Lance Armstrong-USADA doping affair, and related in it his personal experiences, stating that he "just never doped".[51] Voigt argued that it was impossible for him to imagine that he would be regarded as a doper, and cheater by his children if he took performance-enhancing drugs.[51] Tyler Hamilton felt Voigt was jeopardizing his fight against doping in autumn 2012. While the American has no proof, he is convinced that Voigt doped. Voigt reacted by saying that he never heard about doping while he was on the CSC team. Hamilton felt this statement was like "spitting in my face", and "the most ridiculous thing I read in my life".[52][53][54][55]

Palmarès

1994
1st Overall Peace Race
1st Overall Niedersachsen-Rundfahrt
1996
1st Overall Sachsen-Tour
1997
1st Overall Niedersachsen-Rundfahrt
1st Stage 5B
1st Prologue Sachsen Tour
2nd Overall Tour de Langkawi
3rd Overall Peace Race
1998
1st Stage 5A Tour of the Basque Country
1st Points classification Prudential Tour
Held King of the Mountains Jersey Stage 9 Tour de France
1999
1st Overall Critérium International
1st Breitling Grand Prix
1st Stage 3 Route du Sud
1st Duo Normand (with Chris Boardman)
2000
1st Grand Prix Cholet
1st Bayern-Rundfahrt
2001
1st Overall Bayern-Rundfahrt
1st Stage 2
Tour de France
1st Stages 4 (TTT) & 16
1 day in maillot jaune Stage 7
1st Grand Prix des Nations
1st Tour de Poitou
1st Duo Normand (with Jonathan Vaughters)
Tour of Poland
1st Stage 6
1st Points classification
1st Stage 7 Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré
1st Stage 1 Route du Sud
2002
Critérium International
1st Stage 3
1st Points classification
2003
1st Overall Tour de Poitou
1st Stage 4
1st Paris–Bourges
1st Stage 3 Critérium International
2004
1st Overall Critérium International
1st Stages 2 & 3
1st Overall Bayern-Rundfahrt
1st LuK Challenge
1st Stage 4 Danmark Rundt
1st Stage 5 Tour of the Basque Country
2nd Overall Deutschland Tour
2005
1st Overall Tour Méditerranéen
1st Stages 1 & 3
1st LuK Challenge Chrono Bühl
1st Stage 3 Étoile de Bessèges
1st Prologue Paris–Nice
1st Stage 5 Tour of the Basque Country
1st Stage 4 Bayern-Rundfahrt
1 day in maillot jaune Stage 9 Tour de France
2nd Liège–Bastogne–Liège
2006
1st Overall Deutschland Tour
1st Stages 2, 6 & 7 (ITT)
1st Rund um die Hainleite
1st Giro Bochum
1st Stage 13 Tour de France
1st Stage 4 Ster Elektrotoer
2007
1st Overall Critérium International
1st Stage 2
1st Overall Deutschland Tour
1st Stage 8
1st Stage 4 Tour of the Basque Country
2nd Overall Tour of California
1st Stage 3
2nd Overall 3-Länder-Tour
3rd Overall Bayern-Rundfahrt
2008
1st Overall Tour de Pologne
1st Stage 6
1st Mountains classification
1st Overall Critérium International
1st Stage 18 Giro d'Italia
2009
1st Overall Critérium International
1st Stage 2
4th Overall Tour of California
6th Overall Paris – Nice
2010
1st Stage 4 Volta a Catalunya
4th Overall Vuelta a Andalucia
5th Overall Paris–Nice
6th Overall Tour of California
2012
USA Pro Cycling Challenge
1st Stage 4
1st Mountains classification
2013
1st Stage 5 Tour of California

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