Rolf Järmann (born 31 January 1966 in

Arbon , neighboring_municipalities= Egnach, Roggwil TG, Berg SG, Steinach, Horn , twintowns = Langenargen (Germany), Binn (Switzerland) Arbon is a historic town and a municipality and district capital of the district of Arbon in the canton ...

) is a retired

road bicycle racer Road bicycle racing is the cycle sport discipline of road cycling, held primarily on paved roads. Road racing is the most popular professional form of bicycle racing, in terms of numbers of competitors, events and spectators. The two most common ...

from

Switzerland ). Swiss law does not designate a ''capital'' as such, but the federal parliament and government are installed in Bern, while other federal institutions, such as the federal courts, are in other cities (Bellinzona, Lausanne, Luzern, Neuchâtel ...

, who was a professional rider from 1988 to 1999. He twice won the

Amstel Gold Race The Amstel Gold Race is an annual one-day classic road cycling race held in the province of Limburg, Netherlands. It traditionally marks the turning point of the spring classics, with the climbers and stage racers replacing the cobbled classics r ...

(1993 and 1998) during his career. He was the Swiss National Road Race champion in 1990. He won the

Tour de Pologne The Tour de Pologne (Polish: ''Wyścig Dookoła Polski'', English: ''Tour of Poland'', official abbreviation TdP,) is an annual, professional men's multiple-stage bicycle race primarily held in Poland. It consists of seven or eight stages ...

in 1997. He won a stage in the

1989 Giro d'Italia The 1989 Giro d'Italia was the 72nd edition of the race. It started off in Taormina on 21 May with a flat stage that ended in Catania. The race concluded in Florence with a individual time trial on 11 June. Twenty-two teams entered the race ...

, the

1992 Tour de France The 1992 Tour de France was the 79th edition of the Tour de France, taking place from 4 to 26 July. The total race distance was 21 stages and a prologue over . In honor of the Maastricht Treaty, which created the European Union, the Tour visited ...

and also won the

1998 Tirreno-Adriatico 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The '' Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently ...

. According to a

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report, in his book ''Doping, Spitzensport als gesellschaftliches Problem'' (Doping, Top Sport as a Social Problem), Järmann admits to using EPO.cyclingnews.com, Sep 8, 2000
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Teams

*1988: Cyndarella-Isotonic (Switzerland) *1989: Frank-Toyo-Magniflex (Switzerland) *1990: Pneuhaus Frank-Toyo (Switzerland) *1991: Weinmann-Eddy Merckx (Switzerland) *1992: Ceramiche Ariostea (Italy) *1993: Ceramiche Ariostea (Italy) *1994: GB-MG Maglificio (Italy) *1995: MG Maglificio-Technogym (Italy) *1996: MG Maglificio-Technogym (Italy) *1997: Casino-C'est votre equipe (France) *1998: Casino-C'est votre equipe (France) *1999: Post Swiss Team (Switzerland)

Tour de France

1991 File:1991 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Boris Yeltsin, elected as Russia's first president, waves the new flag of Russia after the 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt, orchestrated by Soviet hardliners; Mount Pinatubo erupts in the Phil ...

– 83rd place *

1992 File:1992 Events Collage V1.png, From left, clockwise: 1992 Los Angeles riots, Riots break out across Los Angeles, California after the Police brutality, police beating of Rodney King; El Al Flight 1862 crashes into a residential apartment buildi ...

– 62nd place (most combative rider on 3 stages, winner 12th stage) *

1993 File:1993 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The Oslo I Accord is signed in an attempt to resolve the Israeli–Palestinian conflict; The Russian White House is shelled during the 1993 Russian constitutional crisis; Czechoslovakia is peace ...

– 54th place *

1994 File:1994 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 1994 Winter Olympics are held in Lillehammer, Norway; The Kaiser Permanente building after the 1994 Northridge earthquake; A model of the MS Estonia, which Sinking of the MS Estonia, sank in ...

– 73rd place *

1995 File:1995 Events Collage V2.png, From left, clockwise: O.J. Simpson is O. J. Simpson murder case, acquitted of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman from the 1994, year prior in "The Trial of the Century" in the United States; The ...

– 67th place *

1996 File:1996 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: A Centennial Olympic Park bombing, bomb explodes at Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta, set off by a radical Anti-abortion violence, anti-abortionist; The center fuel tank explodes on TWA Flight 8 ...

– 90th place

Major results

;1988 :

Stausee-Rundfahrt Klingnau The Stausee Rundfahrt-Klingnau ( en, Tour of Stausee Klingnau) is a road bicycle race held annually in Klingnau in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland. Since 2005, it has been organised as a 1.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour The UCI Continental ...

;1989 : Giro d'Italia: ::Winner stage 4 ;1990 : 1st MaillotSuiza

Road race, National Road Championships ;1992 :

Tour de France The Tour de France () is an annual men's multiple-stage bicycle race primarily held in France, while also occasionally passing through nearby countries. Like the other Grand Tours (the Giro d'Italia and the Vuelta a España), it consists ...

: ::Winner stage 12 ;1993 :

;1995 :

GP Ouest-France The Bretagne Classic, also called Bretagne Classic Ouest–France, is an elite cycling classic held annually in late summer around the Breton village of Plouay in western France. The race was originally named Grand–Prix de Plouay and, from 19 ...

Tour de Luxembourg The Tour de Luxembourg is an annual stage race in professional road bicycle racing held in Luxembourg. The Tour de Luxembourg is classified as a 2.Pro race, the highest rating below the World Tour, by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI), the ...

;1997 :

;1998 : 1st Overall

Tirreno–Adriatico Tirreno–Adriatico, nicknamed the "Race of the Two Seas", is an elite road cycling stage race in Italy, run between the Tyrrhenian and Adriatic coasts. Traditionally held in the early part of the season, it is considered to be an important prep ...

References

External links

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Official Tour de France results for Rolf Järmann
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