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{{Short description|German cyclist (1937–2016)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2020}}
{{Infobox cyclist
| name = Rudi Altig
| image = Rudi Altig 20060809 005.jpg
| caption = Altig at the [[2006 Deutschland Tour]]
| fullname = Rudi Altig
| nickname = 
| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=y|1937|3|18}}
| birth_place = [[Mannheim]], [[Nazi Germany|Germany]]
| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|2016|6|11|1937|3|18}}
| death_place = [[Remagen]], Germany
| currentteam = 
| discipline = Road and Track
| role = Rider
| ridertype = [[Glossary of cycling#all-rounder|All-rounder]]
| amateuryears1 = 
| amateurteam1 = 
| proyears1 = 1959
| proteam1 = Torpedo–Fichtel & Sachs
| proyears2 = 1960–1961
| proteam2 = {{UCI team code|Rapha|1960}}
| proyears3 = 1962–1964
| proteam3 = {{UCI team code|Saint-Raphael|1962}}
| proyears4 = 1965
| proteam4 = {{UCI team code|Margnat|1965}}
| proyears5 = 1966–1967
| proteam5 = {{UCI team code|Molteni|1966}}
| proyears6 = 1968–1969
| proteam6 = {{UCI team code|Salvarani|1968}}
| proyears7 = 1970–1971
| proteam7 = {{UCI team code|GBC|1970}}
| majorwins = ;Road
'''[[Grand Tour (cycling)|Grand Tours]]'''
:'''[[Tour de France]]'''
::[[Points classification in the Tour de France|Points classification]] ([[1962 Tour de France|1962]])
::8 individual stages ([[1962 Tour de France|1962]], [[1964 Tour de France|1964]], [[1966 Tour de France|1966]], [[1969 Tour de France|1969]])
:'''[[Giro d'Italia]]'''
::4 individual stages ([[1966 Giro d'Italia|1966]], [[1967 Giro d'Italia|1967]])
:'''[[Vuelta a España]]'''
::'''[[General classification in the Vuelta a España|General classification]]''' ([[1962 Vuelta a España|1962]])
::[[Points classification in the Vuelta a España|Points classification]] ([[1962 Vuelta a España|1962]])
::6 individual stages ([[1962 Vuelta a España|1962]], [[1965 Vuelta a España|1965]], [[1968 Vuelta a España|1968]])
::1 TTT stage ([[1962 Vuelta a España|1962]])
'''[[Classic cycle races|One-day races and Classics]]'''
:[[UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race|World Road Race Championships]] ([[1966 UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race|1966]])
:{{nowrap|[[German National Road Race Championships|National Road Race Championships]] (1964, 1970)}}
:[[Tour of Flanders (men's race)|Tour of Flanders]] ([[1964 Tour of Flanders|1964]])
:[[Milan–San Remo]] ([[1968 Milan–San Remo|1968]])
;Track
:[[UCI Track Cycling World Championships – Men's individual pursuit|World Individual Pursuit World Championships]] ([[1960 UCI Track Cycling World Championships|1960]], [[1961 UCI Track Cycling World Championships|1961]])
| medaltemplates = {{MedalCountry| {{FRG}}}}
{{MedalSport|Men's [[road bicycle racing]]}}
{{MedalCompetition|[[UCI Track Cycling World Championships]]}}
{{MedalGold|[[1960 UCI Track Cycling World Championships|1960 Leipzig]]|Individual pursuit}}
{{MedalGold|[[1961 UCI Track Cycling World Championships|1961 Zurich]]|Individual pursuit}}
{{MedalCompetition|[[UCI Road World Championships]]}}
{{MedalGold |[[1966 UCI Road World Championships|1966 Nürburgring]]|[[1966 UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race|Road race]]}}
{{MedalSilver |[[1965 UCI Road World Championships|1965 San Sebastián]]|[[1965 UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race|Road race]]}}
}}
'''Rudi Altig''' ({{IPA|de|ˈʁuːdiː ˈaltɪç|-|De-Rudi Altig.ogg}}; 18 March 1937 – 11 June 2016) was a German professional [[track cycling|track]] and [[road bicycle racing|road racing]] cyclist who won the [[1962 Vuelta a España]] and the world championship in 1966. After his retirement from sports he worked as a television commentator.

==Amateur career==

Rudi Altig was born in [[Mannheim]], [[Baden]], [[Nazi Germany|Germany]], an area which had produced good track riders.<ref name="SporCyc">Sporting Cyclist, UK, December 1966</ref> He began racing in 1952, following his older brother, [[Willi Altig|Willi]].<ref name="Coups"/> The brothers teamed for [[madison (cycling)|madison]] and other two-man races, becoming the best in the country.<ref name="SporCyc"/> The British promoter, Jim Wallace, booked Altig to ride with [[Hans Jaroszewicz]]<ref>Willi had been invited but had fallen ill.</ref> at a meeting on [[Herne Hill]] [[velodrome]] in [[Good Friday]] in 1956. He said:

<blockquote>What a pair they made! They just about slaughtered a top-class field of international riders, with all our best home lads. Only [[Michel Rousseau (cyclist)|Michel Rousseau]], later that year to become world sprint champion, was able to take a points sprint from them. That was in the first sprint, too; thereafter the German pair gained not only every sprint for points but every prime [lap prize] as well ... They went on to [[Coventry]] [another meeting held over Easter] and did much the same thing, winning everything in which they rode, so classy was their performance.<ref name="SporCyc"/></blockquote>

Altig became national sprint champion in 1957 and 1958. Then Karly Ziegler, a coach, took over his preparation when he joined the Endspurt Mannheim club and Altig became a pursuiter. He won the 1959 national pursuit championship and won the madison championship with his brother. Later that year he beat many of the world's best pursuiters to become world champion in [[Amsterdam]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Ex-Weltmeister Rudi Altig ist tot|url=http://www.eurosport.de/radsport/ex-weltmeister-rudi-altig-ist-tot_sto5643524/story.shtml|publisher=Eurosport|access-date=11 June 2016|language=de|date=11 June 2016}}</ref>

==Professional track career==
Altig was allowed by the [[Union Cycliste Internationale]] to turn professional in 1960<ref name="Coups">Coups de Pédales, Belgium, undated cutting</ref> within a year of his world championship.<ref name="SporCyc"/> He rode his first professional six-day, in [[Denmark]], that winter. Wallace said:

<blockquote>No man ever settled down better or quicker to a pro career than the able Altig. In the hurly-burly world of indoor track racing. Rudi never seemed a novice. Settling down at once, tearing strips off established stars, he soon started to fill indoor tracks which had long forgotten the welcome sight of a 'house full' sign. He brought back the biggest winter racing boom to Germany for many years, reminiscent of the balmy pre-war days. With seven tracks at home - more than  in the rest of Europe - Altig had a busy time and was soon in the big money.<ref name="SporCyc"/></blockquote>

He won the world pursuit championship in 1960 and 1961 and won 62 races on the track. He won 22 six-day races, particularly in Germany, including four in [[Cologne]] and [[Dortmund]].<ref name="Coups"/> He never rode the [[Giro di Lombardia]] because it clashed with the start of the winter season on the track.<ref name="Coups"/> He said:

<blockquote>I rode the track because I could win money. If I hadn't been able to win money on the track, I wouldn't have travelled all the velodromes of the world to ride six-days. Now, riders are better paid and they don't need to hammer themselves on the road and the track. We, in our era, we did everything to try to win money. Modern times are different, you have to understand that. You can't compare the two eras. But I don't regret ours.<ref name="Coups"/></blockquote>

Altig, who was {{height|m=1.80}} tall and weighed {{convert|80|kg|abbr=on}}, sprinted on the track on 52 or 53 × 16 and rode pursuits on 52 × 15.<ref name="Coups"/> "He gave his bikes as hard a time as he gave his adversaries," said the writer, Olivier Dazat.<ref>{{cite book |title= Seigneurs Et Forcats Du Velo |last=Dazat |first=Olivier |author2=Barrot, Olivier  |year=1987 |publisher=Calmann-Levy |location=France |isbn=2-7021-1615-9 }}</ref>

==Road career==

[[File:Willi en Rudi Altig (1966).jpg|thumb|upright|Altig ''(right)'' with his brother Willi in 1966]]
Altig started his professional career as a track rider; it was [[Raphaël Géminiani]] who persuaded him his future was on the road. Altig agreed because fame on the road would give him better contracts on the track. He won the [[Vuelta a España]]  and three of its stages in 1962. He led the [[general classification in the Tour de France|general classification]] for five days in his first [[Tour de France]] that same season, winning three stages and the points competition, and finishing 31st.<ref>{{cite web|title=Rudi Altig|url=http://www.procyclingstats.com/rider.php?id=168683&season=1962|website=procyclingstats.com|access-date=11 June 2016}}</ref>

He won his first [[Classic cycle races|classic]] in 1964, the [[Tour of Flanders (men's race)|Tour of Flanders]] after riding 60&nbsp;km alone and winning by four minutes. In the same year he won the [[German National Road Race Championships|German National Road Race]].<ref name="RoadRace">{{cite web |url=http://www.cyclingarchives.com/wedstrijdfiche.php?wedstrijdid=334 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20140911105726/http://www.cyclingarchives.com/wedstrijdfiche.php?wedstrijdid=334 |url-status=usurped |archive-date=11 September 2014 |title=National Championship, Road, Elite, Germany |access-date=13 September 2014 |work=Cycling Archives}}</ref> In 1965 he finished second to [[England|Englishman]] [[Tom Simpson]] in the [[World Cycling Championship|professional road championship]] in [[San Sebastián]], [[Spain]]. Simpson said:

<blockquote>I could not accept that Altig could beat me. Going round the back of the circuit we came to a gentleman's agreement. Both of us had worked hard in our little break and therefore we each deserved an equal chance of victory. We agreed to separate when we reached the one kilometre to go board and ride in side by side. Altig was quite happy about this for I am sure he thought he could put it across me. So there we were, two gentlemen virtually fighting a duel over the last kilometre. I was glad that Altig had accepted my proposal for it was the fairest way out. I have always regarded him as a great rider and his showing that day did nothing to make me change my mind.<ref>{{cite book |title=Cycling is My Life |last=Simpson |first=Tommy |author-link=Tom Simpson |year=1966 |publisher=tanley Paul |location=London |isbn=0-09-081351-0 }}</ref></blockquote>

But the world title was not denied for long: he won the 1966 championship not too far away from his home, at the [[Nürburgring]]. There was controversy because Altig had been helped by [[Gianni Motta]], riding that day for Italy but normally Altig's companion in the [[Molteni (cycling team)|Molteni]] team. The concern was quickly overshadowed by the refusal of the first three riders to give urine samples for a drugs check.<ref name="Nicholson">Nicholson, Geoffrey (1991, Le Tour, Hodder and Stoughton, UK, p160, {{ISBN|0-340-54268-3}}</ref> They were protesting at what they saw was the laxity with which tests were carried out and at what they considered restrictions on the way they prepared themselves. Altig said: "We are professionals, not sportsmen."<ref>{{cite book |title=Dopage, l'imposture des performances |last=de Mondenard |first=Jean-Pierre |year=2000 |publisher=Chiron |location=France |isbn=2-7027-0639-8 |page=103 }}</ref> The three were disqualified and suspended but ten days later the [[Union Cycliste Internationale]] allowed the result to stand.<ref name="Nicholson"/>

[[File:Rudi Altig 1969 Ajman stamp.jpg|thumb|upright|Altig on a 1969 [[United Arab Emirates|UAE]] stamp]]
Altig took three stages in that year's Tour, finishing 12th place overall, and two more in the [[Giro d'Italia]], in which he came 13th.

The second and final classic win came in the 1968 [[Milan–San Remo]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Rudi Altig|url=http://www.procyclingstats.com/rider.php?id=168683&season=1968|website=procyclingstats.com|access-date=11 June 2016}}</ref> He also took two stages of that year's Vuelta, finishing 18th overall. In 1969 he finished 9th in the Giro, and won the prologue [[individual time trial]] of the [[Tour de France]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Rudi Altig|url=http://www.procyclingstats.com/rider.php?id=168683&season=1969|website=procyclingstats.com|access-date=11 June 2016}}</ref>

===Jacques Anquetil===
Altig rode his first Tour as a [[domestique]] and as team sprinter for [[Jacques Anquetil]]. The two developed a rocky relationship in the Tour of Spain that hardened when Altig took the yellow jersey early in the Tour de France.<ref name="Coups"/> Anquetil criticised him because his team would have to ride at the front and chase every attack to protect a rider too heavy<ref name="Mulholland">{{cite book |title=Cycling's Golden Age |last=Mulholland |first=Owen |year=2006 |publisher=Velo Press |location=USA |isbn=978-1-931382-87-8 |page=66 }}</ref> to keep his lead through the mountains. The two never became close until they rode for different teams.<ref>{{cite book |title=Seigneurs et Forçats du Vélo |last=Dazat |first=Olivier |year=1987 |publisher=Calmann-Levy |location=France |isbn=2-7021-1615-9 }}</ref>

That same year the two were paired for the [[Trofeo Baracchi]], a 111&nbsp;km two-man time-trial in [[Italy]]. The writer [[René de Latour]] wrote:

<blockquote>Generally in a race of the Barrachi type, the changes are very rapid, with stints of no more than 300 yards. Altig was at the front when I started the check - and he was still there a minute later. Something must be wrong. Altig wasn't even swinging aside to invite Anquetil through... Suddenly, on a flat road, Anquetil lost contact and a gap of three lengths appeared between the two partners. There followed one of the most sensational things I have ever seen in any form of cycle racing during my 35 years' association with the sport - something which I consider as great a physical performance as a world hour record or a classic road race win. Altig was riding at 30mph at the front - and had been doing so for 15 minutes. When Anquetil lost contact, he had to ease the pace, wait for his partner to go by, push him powerfully in the back, sprint to the front again after losing 10 yards in the process, and again settle down to a 30mph stint at the front. Altig did not this just once but dozens of times.<ref name="SporCyc"/></blockquote>

Anquetil reached the stadium where the race finished and hit a pole. He was helped away with staring eyes and with blood streaming from a cut to his head. The pairing nevertheless won by nine seconds. Altig said: "Jacques wasn't happy [during the race], it didn't please him at all, but I wanted us to win. So I got him by the saddle, I got him by the shorts, and ''hop!''."<ref name="Coups"/>

==Retirement==
Altig became [[directeur sportif]] of the Puch-Wolber team when he stopped racing and worked for five years as national coach. He was a television commentator. He said of the American rider, [[Lance Armstrong]]: "He is a tyrant who exploits his team-mates without leaving them the least initiative."<ref>Journal du Dimanche, France, 27 July 2003</ref> Of his fellow German, [[Jan Ullrich]], he said he would do better to talk less about what he was going to do and get on and do it.<ref name="Mulholland"/>

He died on 11 June 2016 in [[Remagen]], [[Germany]], as a result of cancer.<ref>{{cite web|title=Radsport-Legende Rudi Altig ist tot|url=http://www.sportschau.de/weitere/radsport/tod-rudi-altig-100.html|website=sportschau.de|access-date=11 June 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160611231959/http://www.sportschau.de/weitere/radsport/tod-rudi-altig-100.html|archive-date=11 June 2016|language=de|date=11 June 2016}}</ref><ref>[http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/rudi-altig-dies-aged-79/ Rudi Altig dies aged 79]</ref>

==Major results==
===Road===
{{div col|colwidth=22em}}
;1960
: 1st Stage 7 [[Deutschland Tour]]
;1961
: 4th [[Genoa–Nice]]
: 6th Overall [[Deutschland Tour]]
;1962
: 1st [[File:Jersey yellow.svg|20px]] Overall [[1962 Vuelta a España|Vuelta a España]]
::1st [[File:Jersey green.svg|20px]] [[Points classification in the Vuelta a España|Points classification]]
::1st Stages 2, 5 ([[Team time trial|TTT]]), 7 & 15 ([[Individual time trial|ITT]])
: 1st [[Critérium des As]]
: 1st [[Grand Prix de Cannes]]
: 1st [[Manx Trophy]]
: 1st [[Trofeo Baracchi]] (with [[Jacques Anquetil]])
: [[1962 Tour de France|Tour de France]]
::1st [[File:Jersey green.svg|20px]] [[Points classification in the Tour de France|Points classification]]
::1st Stages 1, 3 & 17
::Held [[File:Jersey yellow.svg|20px]] after Stages 1 & 3–5
: 1st Stage 6 [[1963 Paris–Nice|Paris–Nice]]
: [[Deutschland Tour]]
::1st Stages 2 & 3
: 2nd [[German National Road Race Championships|Road race]], National Road Championships
;1963
: 1st [[File:Jersey yellow.svg|20px]] Overall [[Paris–Luxembourg]]
::1st Stage 1
: 2nd Overall [[1963 Paris–Nice|Paris–Nice]]
::1st Stages 2 & 5
: 2nd [[Eschborn–Frankfurt|Rund um den Henninger Turm]]
: 9th [[German National Road Race Championships|Road race]], National Road Championships
;1964
: 1st [[File:MaillotAllemania.svg|20px]] [[German National Road Race Championships|Road race]], National Road Championships
: 1st [[File:Jersey yellow.svg|20px]] Overall [[Vuelta a Andalucía]]
::1st Stages 3 & 4
: 1st [[1964 Tour of Flanders|Tour of Flanders]]
: 1st [[GP Union Dortmund]]
: 1st [[Grand Prix du Parisien]] ([[Team time trial|TTT]])
: [[1964 Tour de France|Tour de France]]
::1st Stage 4
::Held [[File:Jersey yellow.svg|20px]] after Stages 5–7
::Held [[File:Jersey green.svg|20px]] after Stages 4–6 & 14
: 1st Stage 8b ([[Individual time trial|ITT]]) [[1964 Paris–Nice|Paris–Nice]]
: 2nd [[Paris–Camembert]]
: 2nd [[Manx Trophy]]
: 3rd [[Gran Premio di Lugano]]
: 3rd [[Trofeo Baracchi]] (with [[Tom Simpson]])
: 6th [[1964 La Flèche Wallonne|La Flèche Wallonne]]
: 6th [[Eschborn–Frankfurt|Rund um den Henninger Turm]]
: 8th Overall [[Tour of Belgium]]
::1st Stage 2
;1965
: 1st Stage 3 [[1965 Vuelta a España|Vuelta a España]]
: [[Tour du Sud-Est|Circuit du Provençal]]
::1st Stages 1 & 2
: 2nd [[File:Silver medal uci.svg|15px]] [[1965 UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race|Road race]], [[1965 UCI Road World Championships|UCI Road World Championships]]
: 2nd Overall [[1965 Paris–Nice|Paris–Nice]]
::1st [[File:Jersey green.svg|20px]] Points classification
::1st Stages 1, 4 & 6b
: 2nd [[Grand Prix des Nations]]
: 3rd [[Critérium des As]]
: 4th [[Genoa–Nice]]
: 7th [[Eschborn–Frankfurt|Rund um den Henninger Turm]]
;1966
: 1st [[File:Jersey rainbow.svg|20px]] [[1966 UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race|Road race]], [[1966 UCI Road World Championships|UCI Road World Championships]]
: 1st [[Giro del Piemonte]]
: 1st [[Giro di Toscana]]
: 1st [[Bol d'Or des Monédières]]
: [[1966 Tour de France|Tour de France]]
::1st Stages 1, 12 & 22b ([[Individual time trial|ITT]])
::Held [[File:Jersey yellow.svg|20px]] after Stages 1–9
::Held [[File:Jersey green.svg|20px]] after Stage 1
: [[1966 Giro d'Italia|Giro d'Italia]]
::1st Stages 7 & 11
::Held [[File:Jersey red.svg|20px]] after Stages 11–14
: 3rd [[1966 La Flèche Wallonne|La Flèche Wallonne]]
: 3rd [[Genoa–Nice]]
: 6th Overall [[1966 Paris–Nice|Paris–Nice]]
::1st Stage 3
: 6th [[1966 Paris–Roubaix|Paris–Roubaix]]
: 8th [[Classica Sarda|GP Alghero]]
;1967
: 1st [[Milano–Vignola]]
: [[1967 Giro d'Italia|Giro d'Italia]]
::1st Stages 6 & 11
: 3rd [[1967 Paris–Roubaix|Paris–Roubaix]]
: 3rd [[Giro di Campania]]
: 4th [[Trofeo Baracchi]] (with [[Felice Gimondi]])
: 5th Overall [[Paris–Luxembourg]]
;1968
: 1st [[1968 Milan–San Remo|Milan–San Remo]]
: [[1968 Vuelta a España|Vuelta a España]]
::1st Stages 3b & 5
::Held [[File:Jersey yellow.svg|20px]] after Stages 3b–10
: 2nd [[1968 Tour of Flanders|Tour of Flanders]]
: 2nd [[LuK Challenge Chrono|Baden-Baden]] (with [[Jacques Anquetil]])
: 3rd Overall [[1968 Tirreno–Adriatico|Tirreno–Adriatico]]
::1st Stage 2
: 3rd [[Gran Premio di Lugano]]
: 9th [[German National Road Race Championships|Road race]], National Road Championships
;1969
: 1st [[Gran Premio di Lugano]]
: 1st [[Maël-Pestivien]]
: [[1969 Tour de France|Tour de France]]
::1st Prologue
::Held [[File:Jersey yellow.svg|20px]] after Prologue & Stage 1a
::Held [[File:Jersey green.svg|20px]] after Prologue
: 2nd [[LuK Challenge Chrono|Baden-Baden]] (with [[Vittorio Adorni]])
: 9th Overall [[1969 Giro d'Italia|Giro d'Italia]]
;1970
: 1st [[File:MaillotAllemania.svg|20px]] [[German National Road Race Championships|Road race]], National Road Championships
: 1st [[Eschborn–Frankfurt|Rund um den Henninger Turm]]
: 1st [[Classica Sarda|Sassari-Cagliari]]
: 1st Prologue [[1970 Tour de Suisse|Tour de Suisse]]
: 1st Stage 5 [[1970 Paris–Nice|Paris–Nice]]
: 1st Stage 3 [[Paris–Luxembourg]]
: 2nd [[:fr:Tour des Quatre-Cantons|Tour des Quatre-Cantons]]
: 3rd Overall [[Vuelta a Mallorca]]
::1st Stage 4
: 4th Overall [[1970 Tour de Romandie|Tour de Romandie]]
: 4th [[Mont Faron#Hill climb|Mont Faron Hill Climb]]
{{div col end}}

===Grand Tour general classification results timeline===

{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders"
|-
! scope="col" | [[Grand Tour (cycling)|Grand Tour]]
! scope="col" | 1959
! scope="col" | 1960
! scope="col" | 1961
! scope="col" | 1962
! scope="col" | 1963
! scope="col" | 1964
! scope="col" | 1965
! scope="col" | 1966
! scope="col" | 1967
! scope="col" | 1968
! scope="col" | 1969
! scope="col" | 1970
! scope="col" | 1971
|- style="text-align:center;"
! scope="row" | [[File:Jersey yellow.svg|20px|link=|alt=A gold jersey]] [[List of Vuelta a España general classification winners|Vuelta a España]]
|[[1959 Vuelta a España|—]]
|[[1960 Vuelta a España|—]]
|[[1961 Vuelta a España|—]]
|style="background:yellow;"|[[1962 Vuelta a España|'''1''']]
|[[1963 Vuelta a España|—]]
|[[1964 Vuelta a España|—]]
|[[1965 Vuelta a España|DNF]]
|[[1966 Vuelta a España|—]]
|[[1967 Vuelta a España|—]]
|[[1968 Vuelta a España|18]]
|[[1969 Vuelta a España|—]]
|[[1970 Vuelta a España|—]]
|[[1971 Vuelta a España|—]]
|- style="text-align:center;"
! scope="row" | [[File:Jersey pink.svg|20px|link=|alt=A pink jersey]] [[General classification in the Giro d'Italia|Giro d'Italia]]
|[[1959 Giro d'Italia|—]]
|[[1960 Giro d'Italia|—]]
|[[1961 Giro d'Italia|—]]
|[[1962 Giro d'Italia|—]]
|[[1963 Giro d'Italia|—]]
|[[1964 Giro d'Italia|—]]
|[[1965 Giro d'Italia|—]]
|[[1966 Giro d'Italia|13]]
|[[1967 Giro d'Italia|DNF]]
|[[1968 Giro d'Italia|DNF]]
|style="background:#ddddff;"|[[1969 Giro d'Italia|9]]
|[[1970 Giro d'Italia|44]]
|[[1971 Giro d'Italia|—]]
|- style="text-align:center;"
! scope="row" | [[File:Jersey yellow.svg|20px|link=|alt=A yellow jersey]] [[General classification in the Tour de France|Tour de France]]
|[[1959 Tour de France|—]]
|[[1960 Tour de France|—]]
|[[1961 Tour de France|—]]
|[[1962 Tour de France|31]]
|[[1963 Tour de France|—]]
|[[1964 Tour de France|15]]
|[[1965 Tour de France|—]]
|[[1966 Tour de France|12]]
|[[1967 Tour de France|—]]
|[[1968 Tour de France|—]]
|[[1969 Tour de France|DNF]]
|[[1970 Tour de France|—]]
|[[1971 Tour de France|—]]
|}

===Classics results timeline===
{| class="wikitable"
! scope="col" colspan=19 align=center| Monuments results timeline
|-
! Monument
! scope="col" | 1959
! scope="col" | 1960
! scope="col" | 1961
! scope="col" | 1962
! scope="col" | 1963
! scope="col" | 1964
! scope="col" | 1965
! scope="col" | 1966
! scope="col" | 1967
! scope="col" | 1968
! scope="col" | 1969
! scope="col" | 1970
! scope="col" | 1971
|- style="text-align:center;"
| style="text-align:left; background:#efefef;"|[[Milan–San Remo]]
|[[1959 Milan–San Remo|—]]
|[[1960 Milan–San Remo|—]]
|[[1961 Milan–San Remo|24]]
|[[1962 Milan–San Remo|—]]
|[[1963 Milan–San Remo|—]]
|[[1964 Milan–San Remo|DSQ]]
|[[1965 Milan–San Remo|29]]
|[[1966 Milan–San Remo|49]]
|[[1967 Milan–San Remo|—]]
|style="background:gold;"|[[1968 Milan–San Remo|'''1''']]
|[[1969 Milan–San Remo|—]]
|[[1970 Milan–San Remo|37]]
|[[1971 Milan–San Remo|—]]
|- style="text-align:center;"
| style="text-align:left; background:#efefef;"|[[Tour of Flanders (men's race)|Tour of Flanders]]
|[[1959 Tour of Flanders|—]]
|[[1960 Tour of Flanders|—]]
|[[1961 Tour of Flanders|—]]
|[[1962 Tour of Flanders|—]]
|[[1963 Tour of Flanders|11]]
|style="background:gold;"|[[1964 Tour of Flanders|'''1''']]
|[[1965 Tour of Flanders|—]]
|[[1966 Tour of Flanders|34]]
|[[1967 Tour of Flanders|71]]
|style="background:#C0C0C0;"|[[1968 Tour of Flanders|'''2''']]
|[[1969 Tour of Flanders|—]]
|[[1970 Tour of Flanders|—]]
|[[1971 Tour of Flanders|—]]
|- style="text-align:center;"
| style="text-align:left; background:#efefef;"|[[Paris–Roubaix]]
|[[1959 Paris–Roubaix|—]]
|[[1960 Paris–Roubaix|—]]
|[[1961 Paris–Roubaix|32]]
|[[1962 Paris–Roubaix|—]]
|[[1963 Paris–Roubaix|—]]
|[[1964 Paris–Roubaix|11]]
|[[1965 Paris–Roubaix|12]]
|style="background:#ddddff;"|[[1966 Paris–Roubaix|6]]
|style="background:#C9AE5D;"|[[1967 Paris–Roubaix|'''3''']]
|[[1968 Paris–Roubaix|—]]
|[[1969 Paris–Roubaix|14]]
|[[1970 Paris–Roubaix|—]]
|[[1971 Paris–Roubaix|—]]
|- style="text-align:center;"
| style="text-align:left; background:#efefef;"|[[Liège–Bastogne–Liège]]
|[[1959 Liège–Bastogne–Liège|—]]
|[[1960 Liège–Bastogne–Liège|—]]
|[[1961 Liège–Bastogne–Liège|—]]
|[[1962 Liège–Bastogne–Liège|—]]
|[[1963 Liège–Bastogne–Liège|—]]
|[[1964 Liège–Bastogne–Liège|—]]
|[[1965 Liège–Bastogne–Liège|—]]
|[[1966 Liège–Bastogne–Liège|18]]
|[[1967 Liège–Bastogne–Liège|—]]
|[[1968 Liège–Bastogne–Liège|—]]
|[[1969 Liège–Bastogne–Liège|—]]
|[[1970 Liège–Bastogne–Liège|—]]
|[[1971 Liège–Bastogne–Liège|—]]
|- style="text-align:center;"
| style="text-align:left; background:#efefef;"|[[Giro di Lombardia]]
|style="text-align:center; background:#efefef;" colspan=13 |<small>Did not contest during career</small>
|-
|}

=== Major championship results timeline ===
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders"
|-
! scope="col" |
! scope="col" | 1959
! scope="col" | 1960
! scope="col" | 1961
! scope="col" | 1962
! scope="col" | 1963
! scope="col" | 1964
! scope="col" | 1965
! scope="col" | 1966
! scope="col" | 1967
! scope="col" | 1968
! scope="col" | 1969
! scope="col" | 1970
! scope="col" | 1971
|- style="text-align:center;"
| style="text-align:left; background:#efefef;"|[[File:Jersey rainbow.svg|20px|link=Classification in the World Championships|alt=Rainbow jersey]] [[UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race|World Championships]]
|[[1959 UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race|—]]
|[[1960 UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race|—]]
|[[1961 UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race|—]]
|[[1962 UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race|DNF]]
|[[1963 UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race|DNF]]
|[[1964 UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race|18]]
|style="background:#C0C0C0;"|[[1965 UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race|'''2''']]
|style="background:gold;"|[[1966 UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race|'''1''']]
|[[1967 UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race|14]]
|[[1968 UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race|12]]
|[[1969 UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race|41]]
|[[1970 UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race|15]]
|[[1971 UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race|—]]
|- style="text-align:center;"
| style="text-align:left; background:#efefef;"|[[File:MaillotAllemania.svg|20px|link=Classification in the German National Road Race Championships|alt=German jersey]] [[German National Road Race Championships|National Championships]]
|—
|—
|—
|style="background:#C0C0C0;"|'''2'''
|style="background:#ddddff;"|9
|style="background:gold;"|'''1'''
|13
|16
|—
|style="background:#ddddff;"|9
|—
|style="background:gold;"|'''1'''
|—
|}

{| class="wikitable"
|+ Legend
|-
! scope="row" | —
| Did not compete
|-
! scope="row" | DNF
| [[Did not finish]]
|-
! scope="row" | DSQ
| Disqualified
|}

===Track===
;1960
: 1st [[File:Jersey rainbow.svg|20px]] [[UCI Track Cycling World Championships – Men's individual pursuit|Individual pursuit]], [[1960 UCI Track Cycling World Championships|UCI Track World Championships]]
;1961
: 1st [[File:Jersey rainbow.svg|20px]] [[UCI Track Cycling World Championships – Men's individual pursuit|Individual pursuit]], [[1961 UCI Track Cycling World Championships|UCI Track World Championships]]

==References==
 {{Reflist|2}}

==External links==
{{Commons category}}
* {{Cycling Archives|172}}
* {{ProCyclingStats|168683}}

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