Rudi Altig
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Full name | Rudi Altig | ||||||||||||||||
Born | Mannheim, Germany | 18 March 1937||||||||||||||||
Died | 11 June 2016 Remagen, Germany | (aged 79)||||||||||||||||
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Current team | Retired | ||||||||||||||||
Discipline | Track and road | ||||||||||||||||
Role | Rider | ||||||||||||||||
Rider type | Sprinter | ||||||||||||||||
Professional teams | |||||||||||||||||
1959 | Torpedo-Fichtel & Sachs | ||||||||||||||||
1960–1961 | Rapha-Gitane-Dunlop | ||||||||||||||||
1962–1964 | Saint Raphael | ||||||||||||||||
1965 | Margnat-Paloma | ||||||||||||||||
1966–1967 | Molteni | ||||||||||||||||
1968–1969 | Salvarani | ||||||||||||||||
1970–1971 | GBC-Zimba | ||||||||||||||||
Major wins | |||||||||||||||||
World champion individual pursuit (1960–1961) Vuelta a España (1962) Tour de France green jersey (1962) Tour of Flanders (1964) World Cycling Championship (1966) Milan – San Remo (1968) | |||||||||||||||||
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Rudi Altig (18 March 1937 – 11 June 2016) was a German professional track and road racing cyclist. He won the 1962 Vuelta a España and the world championship in 1966. After his retirement from sports he worked as a television commentator.
Altig died on 11 June 2016 in Remagen, Germany, as a result of cancer, aged 79.[1]
References[change | change source]
- ↑ "Radsport-Legende Rudi Altig ist tot". sportschau.de (in German). 11 June 2016. Archived from the original on 11 June 2016. Retrieved 11 June 2016.
Other websites[change | change source]
Media related to Rudi Altig at Wikimedia Commons