Rudi Altig
 Altig in 2006 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Personal information | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Rudi Altig | |||||||||||||||||
| Born | 18 March 1937 Mannheim, Germany | |||||||||||||||||
| Died | 11 June 2016 (aged 79) Remagen, Germany | |||||||||||||||||
| Team information | ||||||||||||||||||
| 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.
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