Christian Henn (born 11 March 1964) is a German former road racing cyclist, who won the bronze medal for West Germany in the men's individual road race at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea.[1] He also won the German National Road Race Championships in 1996.[2] He was a professional rider from 1989 to 1999. After he retired after testing positive for testosterone, he admitted to doping.[3]
 Henn at the 2006 Deutschland Tour | |||||||||||||||
| Personal information | |||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Christian Henn | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 1 February 1964 Heidelberg, West Germany | ||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.82 m (5 ft 11+1⁄2 in) | ||||||||||||||
| Weight | 71 kg (157 lb; 11 st 3 lb) | ||||||||||||||
| Team information | |||||||||||||||
| Current team | Team Lotto–Kern Haus PSD Bank | ||||||||||||||
| Discipline | Road | ||||||||||||||
| Role |
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| Professional teams | |||||||||||||||
| 1989–1991 | Carrera Jeans–Vagabond | ||||||||||||||
| 1992–1999 | Team Telekom | ||||||||||||||
| Managerial teams | |||||||||||||||
| 2000 | IPM–Profirad–Schwerin | ||||||||||||||
| 2001–2008 | Gerolsteiner | ||||||||||||||
| 2009–2010 | Team Milram | ||||||||||||||
| 2012 | Itera–Katusha | ||||||||||||||
| 2012 | Team Katusha | ||||||||||||||
| 2014 | MLP Team Bergstraße | ||||||||||||||
| 2017– | Team Lotto–Kern Haus | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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He now works as a directeur sportif for UCI Continental team Team Lotto–Kern Haus PSD Bank.[4]
Major results
edit- 1988
- 3rd
Road race, Olympic Games - 1989
- 8th Grand Prix Cerami
- 10th Grand Prix de la Libération
- 1992
- 2nd Paris–Tours
- 10th GP de Fourmies
- 1993
- 2nd Rund um Köln
- 4th Druivenkoers Overijse
- 9th Grote Prijs Jef Scherens
- 1994
- 1st
Overall Herald Sun Tour
- 1st Stage 7
- 5th Grand Prix de Wallonie
- 1995
- 1st Stage 13 Vuelta a España
- 3rd GP Ouest-France
- 3rd Circuito de Getxo
- 5th Druivenkoers Overijse
- 5th Clásica de Sabiñánigo
- 1996
- 1st
Road race, National Road Championships - 1st Stage 2 Tour of Sweden
- 9th Overall Danmark Rundt
- 9th Overall Regio-Tour
- 1997
- 1st Overall Bayern Rundfahrt
- 1st Stage 3a
- 1st Overall Hessen Rundfahrt
- 1st Stage 3a Danmark Rundt
- 1st Flèche Ardennaise
- 2nd Overall Peace Race
- 1st Stage 6
- 2nd Tour de Berne
- 4th Giro del Piemonte
- 1998
- 1st Baden-Baden
- 4th Veenendaal–Veenendaal
- 1999
- 9th Overall Tour de Luxembourg
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Christian Henn Olympic Results". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 6 July 2016.
- ^ "National Championship, Road, Elite, Germany". Cycling Archives. Retrieved 13 September 2014.
- ^ "German Cycling Tarnished: Systematic Doping in Telekom Team". Der Spiegel. 23 May 2007.
- ^ "Team Lotto – Kern Haus". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 27 February 2021. Retrieved 27 February 2021.
External links
edit- Christian Henn at Cycling Archives (archived)
- Christian Henn at ProCyclingStats
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