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Rudi Altig

Rudi Altig in 2005. Rudi Altig Personal information Full name Rudi Altig Date of birth March 18, 1937(1937-03-18) (age 71) 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) Infobox last updated on: April 16, 2007 Medal record Competitor for  West GermanyRoad bicycle racingWorld Championships Silver 1965 San SebastiánElite Men's Road Race Gold 1966 NürburgringElite 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.

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

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 Preceded by
Hans-Joachim Klein German Sportsman of the Year
1966 Succeeded by
Kurt BendlinSporting positions Preceded by
Tom SimpsonWorld Road Racing Champion
1966 Succeeded by
Eddy MerckxPreceded by
Angelino SolerWinner of the Vuelta a España
1962 Succeeded by
Jacques AnquetilPreceded by
André DarrigadeWinner of the green jersey in the Tour de France
1962 Succeeded by
Rik Van Looy v • d • eTour de FranceMaillot 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

Categories: 1937 births | Living people | People from Mannheim | German cyclists | Track cyclists | German Tour de France stage winners | Vuelta a España winners | German cycling road race champions | World cycling champions | Tour de France prologue winners | Tour de France Yellow Jersey wearing cyclists

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