Jan Ullrich

Jan Ullrich bornDecember 1973 is a German former professional road bicycle racer. Ullrich won a gold and a silver in the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. He won the 1999 Vuelta a Espaa and the HEW Cyclassics in front of a home crowd in Hamburg in 1997. He had podium finishes in the hilly classic Clsica de San Sebastin. His victorious ride in the 1997 Tour de France led to a bicycle boom in Germany. He retired in February 2007.

Ullrich lived in Merdingen, Germany, from 1994 to 2002 with his partner Gaby Weiss, with whom he had a daughter, Sarah Maria, onJuly 2003. They moved to Scherzingen, municipality of Mnsterlingen, Switzerland, in 2002. Since separating in 2005, said to be because Weisss reluctance to be in the limelight conflicted with Ullrichs celebrity life, Ullrich has continued to live in Scherzingen. Weiss returned with Sarah to Merdingen. In September 2006 Ullrich married Sara Steinhauser, sister of his former teammate and training partner, Tobias Steinhauser. Their first child, Max, was born five weeks prematurely onAugust 2007. Their second son, Benno, was born onJanuary 2011. Their third son, Toni, was born onOctober 2012.

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