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Adjutant
Aerodynamics
AIGCP
AIOCC
All-comers race
All-rounder
Altig, Rudi
Amstel Gold Race
ASO
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Rudi Altig, who was born in 1937 in Mannheim, is one of the most successful riders in German cycling. On the track, Altig became Amateur World Champion in 1959 and pursuit World Champion as a professional in 1960 and 1961. After his change to the street, he won the Vuelta a España in 1962. In the same year, the sprinter won three stages of his first Tour de France, the best sprinter’s green jersey and even wore the yellow jersey of the overall leader for some days. In the course of his career, he altogether won eight stages of the Tour de France and achieved one victory at Milan-San Remo, the Flanders-Tour and Rund um den Henninger Turm respectively. In 1966, Altig became Street World Champion on the Nuerburgring, after he had been Vize World Champion in the previous year already. In the 1970s, the today 68 year-old was national street cycling coach. From the late 1990s to 2005, Rudi Altig was cycling expert for the Tour de France at Eurosport and ARD.
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