Michael Rich (born 23 September 1969) is a German 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–Estro | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 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
edit- 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
edit- ^ "First Edition Cycling News for August 22, 2006" Archived 3 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine cyclingnews.com 22 August 2006 Retrieved 21 February 2010
- ^ Michael Rich - Germany trap-friis.dk Retrieved 21 February 2010
- ^ 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.