THIS WEEK IN PRO CYCLING
Andreas Klöden
Key Stats
Palmares
1st overall, Tirreno-Adriatico 2007
German road champion 2004
1st overall, Paris-Nice 2000
1st overall, Vuelta al País Vasco 2000
2007
1st overall, Tirreno-Adriatico
1st overall, Circuit de la Sarthe (plus stage 2b)
2nd, prologue, Tour de France
2nd, stage 9, Tour de Suisse,
2nd, stage 5 Tirreno-Adriatico
3rd, points competition, Tour de Suisse
3rd, points competition, Tirreno-Adriatico
3rd, stage 13, Tour de France
3rd, stage 7, Tour de Suisse
3rd, stage 8, Tour de Suisse
3rd, stage 3, Tirreno-Adriatico
3rd, stage 2, Criterium International
2006
1st overall, Rothaus Regio Tour (plus stage 4)
2nd, stage 19, Tour de France
2nd, stage 2, Rothaus Regio Tour
2nd, stage 3, Rothaus Regio Tour
3rd overall, Tour de France
3rd, stage 4, Bayern Rundfahrt
5th, stages 15 and 16, Tour de France
2005
1st, stagee 5, Bayern Rundfahrt
2nd, stage 8, Tour de France
2004
1st, German road championship
2nd overall, Tour de France
2nd overall, Bayern Rundfahrt
2nd, stages 10 and 17, Tour de France
3rd, stages 12, 16 and 19, Tour de France
3rd, stage 3, Route du Sud
4th, stages 13 and 15, Tour de France
5th, stage 8, Tour de France
6th, Fleche Wallonne
6th overall, Deutschland Tour
2003
2nd, stage 3, Criterium International
4th overall, Criterium International
7th overall, Tirreno-Adriatico
2002
2nd overall, Regio Tour
3rd, stage 4, Regio Tour
5th overall, Sachsen-Tour
2001
3rd, stage 6, Deutschland Tour
5th, EnBW GP (with Jan Ullrich)
2000
1st overall, Vuela al Pais Vasco (plus stage 5b)
1st overall, Paris-Nice (plus stage 7)
1st, best young rider, Tour of Denmark
1st, stage 7, The Peace Race
2nd overall, Tour of Denmark
2nd overall, Deutschland-Tour
3rd, Olympic road race
3rd overall, Regio Tour International
1999
1st, stage 3b, Regio Tour
5th overall, Regio Tour
1998
1st, prologue, Tour de Normandie
2nd overall, Tour de Normandie
Biography
Klöden turned pro in 1998, two years after placing third in the world under-23 time trial championship. Arguably one of the world’s best stage racers, Klöden has typically ridden in support of others, such as Jan Ullrich and then Alexander Vinokourov at T-Mobile. In fact, when he scored the bronze medal at the 2000 Sydney Olympics road race, it was behind fellow German Jan Ullrich and Kazakh Vinokourov — his trade teammates. Even in 2004, when he placed second overall at the Tour de France, he was riding in support of Ullrich, who finished 4th.