Michael Rich (cyclist)
Michael Rich (born 23 September 1969) is a former professional road bicycle racer, who won the gold medal for his native country in the men's team time trial (100 km) at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain.[3] His winning teammates were Christian Meyer, Bernd Dittert and Uwe Peschel.
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| Full name | Michael Rich | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 23 September 1969 Freiburg, West Germany | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Discipline | Road | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Rider | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rider type | Time trialist | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1997–1998 | Saeco | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1999–2006 | Gerolsteiner[1][2] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Stage races
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Medal record
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Rich is most famous for his individual time trial participations in the Grand Tours (Tour de France, Giro d'Italia and Vuelta a España). He is the father of two children.
Rich retired from racing in 2006. His profession was a mechanic.[4]
Major results
- 1989
- 8th Overall Peace Race
- 1990
- 3rd Chrono des Herbiers
- 1991
- 4th Chrono des Herbiers
- 1994
- 1st Stage 4a (ITT) Regio-Tour
- 1st Stage 2 Peace Race
- 3rd Time trial, National Road Championships
- UCI Road World Championships
- 3rd
Team time trial - 10th Time trial
- 3rd
- 1996
- 2nd Overall Bayern–Rundfahrt
- 3rd Time trial, National Road Championships
- 10th Time trial, Olympic Games
- 1997
- 4th HEW Cyclassics
- 1998
- 7th HEW Cyclassics
- 7th Coppa Bernocchi
- 1999
- 2nd Overall Regio-Tour
- 1st Stage 3b (ITT)
- 6th Overall Tour Trans Canada
- 1st Stage 10 (ITT)
- 6th Grand Prix des Nations
- 9th Veenendaal–Veenendaal
- 2000
- 1st
Time trial, National Road Championships - 1st
Overall Tour de la Somme
- 1st Stage 1
- 1st EnBW Grand Prix (with Torsten Schmidt)
- 2nd Overall Bayern–Rundfahrt
- 1st Stage 1b
- 2nd
Time trial, UCI Road World Championships - 4th Grand Prix des Nations
- 7th Overall Circuit Franco-Belge
- 2001
- 1st Stage 1a (ITT) Niedersachsen-Rundfahrt
- 4th Grand Prix Eddy Merckx (with Uwe Peschel)
- 6th EnBW Grand Prix (with Uwe Peschel)
- 10th Overall Circuit de la Sarthe
- 2002
- 1st Overall Bayern-Rundfahrt
- 1st Stage 2 (ITT)
- 1st Chrono des Herbiers
- 1st Karlsruher Versicherungs Grand-Prix (with Uwe Peschel)
- 1st Stage 4 (ITT) Deutschland Tour
- 1st Stage 4 (ITT) Tour du Poitou-Charentes et de la Vienne
- 1st Stage 4b (ITT) Niedersachsen-Rundfahrt
- 2nd Time trial, UCI Road World Championships
- 2nd Time trial, National Road Championships
- 2nd Grand Prix Eddy Merckx (with Uwe Peschel)
- 4th Grand Prix des Nations
- 2003
- 1st Time trial, National Road Championships
- 1st Overall Bayern-Rundfahrt
- 1st Stage 2 (ITT)
- 1st Chrono des Herbiers
- 1st Grand Prix des Nations
- 1st Grand Prix Eddy Merckx (with Uwe Peschel)
- 1st Karlsruher Versicherungs Grand-Prix (with Sebastian Lang)
- 3rd Time trial, UCI Road World Championships
- 4th Niedersachsen-Rundfahrt
- 1st Stage 1a (ITT)
- 2004
- 1st Time trial, National Road Championships
- 1st Grand Prix des Nations
- 1st Stage 1 (ITT) Deutschland Tour
- 1st Stage 4 (ITT) Hessen-Rundfahrt
- 2nd Time trial, UCI Road World Championships
- 2nd LuK Challenge Chrono (with Uwe Peschel)
- 3rd Grand Prix Eddy Merckx (with Uwe Peschel)
- 4th Time trial, Olympic Games
- 8th Overall Sachsen Tour
- 9th Overall Bayern–Rundfahrt
- 1st Stage 3 (ITT)
- 2005
- 1st Time trial, National Road Championships
- 1st Overall Bayern-Rundfahrt
- 1st Stage 2 (ITT) Ster Elektrotour
- 2nd Overall Rheinland–Pfalz Rundfahrt
- 2nd LuK Challenge Chrono (with Markus Fothen)
- 2006
- 2nd Time trial, National Road Championships
References
- "First Edition Cycling News for August 22, 2006" Archived 3 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine cyclingnews.com 2006-08-22 Retrieved 2010-02-21
- Michael Rich - Germany trap-friis.dk Retrieved 2010-02-21
- Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Michael Rich Olympic Results". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 8 July 2016.
- Kraus, Rainer (2016). Die Welt hat Pedale und Freunde, die sie treten (in German). Bielefeld: Delius Klasing. p. 155. ISBN 978-3-667-10706-0.
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