Andreas Klöden (born June 22, 1975) is a German professional road bicycle racer for UCI ProTeam Astana. His major achievements include a bronze medal at the 2000 Olympic Games and the second place in the 2004 Tour de France and 2006 Tour de France. Klöden is a tall, lightly built racer with enough strength to place high in the overall classifications of the Grand Tours, but he has been plagued by injury.
Klöden was born in Mittweida in 1975. Befo...
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Andreas Klöden (born June 22, 1975) is a German professional road bicycle racer for UCI ProTeam Astana. His major achievements include a bronze medal at the 2000 Olympic Games and the second place in the 2004 Tour de France and 2006 Tour de France. Klöden is a tall, lightly built racer with enough strength to place high in the overall classifications of the Grand Tours, but he has been plagued by injury.
Klöden was born in Mittweida in 1975. Before he turned professional, he won the bronze medal in the Under 23 World Time Trial Championships in 1996, and two stages at the International Rheinland-Pfalz Rundfahrt in 1997.
Klöden signed with Team Deutsche Telekom (later T-Mobile Team) in 1998, and in his first pro season he won the Niedersachsen Rundfahrt's General Classifications (GC) and the prologue of the Tour de Normandie. In 1999, he won a stage at the Portuguese Tour of Algarve. But the first of his great seasons came in 2000, where after notching two important victories in the GC...
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