Michael Rogers (cyclist)

World time trial champion 2003-2005 Germany Tour 2003   Australian Masters - Time Trial 2009

Michael Rogers ( born December 20, 1979 in Barham ) is an Australian racing cyclist.

Since he graduated from the support program of the Australian Institute of Sport, he was given the opportunity to work as an amateur in Europe. He first ran track racing and switched to the road race later. The time trial specialist and all-rounder in 2001 was a professional cyclist with Team Mapei - Quick Step in the year.

His breakthrough he experienced in 2003 when he won the first one after the second place behind David Millar in the spring of the Route du Sud, the Germany Tour and the Tour of Belgium was able to win in the fall and in the time trial World Championships in Hamilton, Canada. Through the subsequent doping confession of Scots Rogers won later even gold.

In 2004, Rogers was his world championship title in the time trial in Verona defend and won this time with a clear lead on the track before the German Michael Rich. Previously, he had finished fourth in the Olympic time trial in Athens, but in 2012 received the bronze medal retroactively, because the Olympic champion Tyler Hamilton, the gold medal was stripped for doping.

2005 Rogers was also excellent climbers qualities and was second in the Tour de Suisse. Only at the last stage it was replaced by the Spaniard Aitor González Jiménez at the top of the standings; the residue was only 22 seconds at the end. Critics, however, view that he had reached his top form early this year, because in the subsequent Tour de France participation came Rogers does not have a midfield square. At the 2005 World Championships in Madrid, he won his third consecutive title in the time trial.

Since the 2006 season, Rogers drove team for the German T -Mobile and was the 2007 season 's new captain of the former Ullrich teams after the captain Andreas Klöden was changed to the new team Astana, in which the former T- Mobile rider Alexander Vinokourov drove. In the 2007 Tour de France but he had on the 8th stage, riding in the lead group, after a serious fall in which he incurred a acromioclavicular blowing up, give up the race. In early 2008 ill Rogers mononucleosis, which is why he could not participate in the 2008 Tour de France. On December 18, 2013 it was announced that he tested positive after his victory in the Japan Cup on October 20, 2013, Clenbuterol and therefore you are blocked for the time being.

Achievements

  • Tour of Belgium
  • Germany Tour
  • World time trial champion
  • World time trial champion
  • World time trial champion
  • 9th place Tour de France
  • Regio Tour stage win
  • 2nd Tour of Catalonia
  • Australian Masters - time trial
  • Team time trial Giro d' Italia
  • Appreciation Andalusia Tour
  • General Classification Tour of California
  • Third Australian Championship time trial
  • Appreciation and two stage wins Tour of Bavaria
  • Japan Cup

Grand Tour Ranking

DNF = Task

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