Uwe Raab

Uwe Raab ( born July 26, 1962 in Wittenberg ) is a former German road cyclists. In 1983 he became world champion in the road race in the amateurs. In the same year he was elected East German Sportsman of the Year. At the 1984 Summer Olympics he was unable to attend because of the boycott of the GDR. At the World Championships 1986 he won bronze in the 100 - km - team driving and was fourth of the individual race. In the 1988 Olympics he finished in 23rd place in the road race.

At the International Peace journey he took from 1983 to 1989 eight times and won seven stages, while in 1983 alone three. Uwe Raab started in his GDR time for the SC DHfK Leipzig and trained with Klaus Ampler. After the reunification, he was the one of the first East German athletes to establish himself as a professional cyclist Foot: First, from 1990 to 1992 for the Dutch team PDM, and later from 1993 to 1995 for Team Telekom. He participated in the Tour de France ( 1990-1992, 1994), at the Giro d' Italia and the Vuelta a España in part. His major successes include a stage win on stage 6 at Tirreno- Adriatico in 1993. At the end of his athletic career, he was sports director of professional clubs Team Nuremberg. In Dessau, he runs a cycling shop with his business partner Thomas Siegel ( Nickname Tomek ). Since 2007 he served as athletic director the Wittenberg cycling days.

1984 and 1986 he was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit.

Raab is married and has two children.

In the course of doping affair Team Telekom end of May 2007 he had this to say: "Yes, the team management has approached me. When I refused, I was a goner, my career doomed. "

GDR Time Trial Championship 1984

Tour of Flanders

Tour of Flanders

Paris -Roubaix

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