Jens Heppner

German cyclist (born 1964)

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Jens Heppner
Personal information
Heppner in 2006
Full name	Jens Heppner
Nickname	Heppe
Born	(1964-12-23) 23 December 1964 (age 59) Gera, East Germany
Height	1.72 m (5 ft 8 in)
Weight	69 kg (152 lb; 10 st 12 lb)
Team information
Current team	Retired
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider Manager
Professional teams
1991	Panasonic–Sportlife
1992–2002	Team Telekom
2003–2005	Team Wiesenhof

Managerial teams
2006–2007	Wiesenhof–AKUD
2011–2013	Team NetApp

Major wins
German National Road Race Championship (1994) Deutschland Tour (1999) Tour de France, 1 stage

Jens Heppner (born 23 December 1964) is a German former road bicycle racer. He wore the pink jersey as leader of the general classification during the 2002 Giro d'Italia. Although he rode for Telekom during ten years, he has consistently denied ever having doped.^[1]

His name was on the list of doping tests published by the French Senate on 24 July 2013 that were collected during the 1998 Tour de France and found positive for EPO when retested in 2004.^[2] He won the German National Road Race in 1994.^[3] After his career, he worked in his own company in Hergenrath (Germany).^[4]

Major results

1982

World Junior Team Time Trial Championship

1986

7th Overall GP Tell

1987

1st

Overall Hessen Rundfahrt

1st

Overall Sachsen Tour

1990

7th Overall Circuit de la Sarthe

1992

10th Overall Tour de France

1993

3rd Amstel Gold Race

4th Züri-Metzgete

9th Rund um den Henninger Turm

1994

1st

Overall Tour du Limousin

1st Stage 1

1st

Road race, National Road Championships

3rd Rund um Köln

3rd GP Ouest–France

1995

1st Stage 2 Tour du Limousin

2nd Rund um den Henninger Turm

9th Overall Route du Sud

10th Subida a Urkiola

1996

2nd Overall Regio-Tour

1st Stage 1

2nd Rund um den Henninger Turm

2nd GP Rik Van Steenbergen

9th Amstel Gold Race

1997

1st Stage 5 Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré

3rd HEW Cyclassics

1998

1st Stage 3 Tour de France

3rd Overall Tirreno–Adriatico

3rd Luk-Cup Bühl

1999

1st

Overall Deutschland Tour

1st Rund um Köln

2000

1st Hof

1st Rund um den Pfaffenteich

3rd Rund um Köln

3rd Rund um den Henninger Turm

6th Overall Deutschland Tour

1st Stage 1

2001: 1st Hürth-Gleuel
2003: 1st GP Buchholz; 1st Gladbeck; 3rd Hel van het Mergelland; 3rd Rund um die Hainleite
2004: 1st Stolberg-Gressenich; 3rd Hel van het Mergelland
2005: 1st Jena; 6th Hel van het Mergelland

References

^ Heppner giving up hope
^ "French Senate releases positive EPO cases from 1998 Tour de France".
^ "National Championship, Road, Elite, Germany". Cycling Archives. Retrieved 13 September 2014.
^ Kraus, Rainer (2016). Die Welt hat Pedale und Freunde, die sie treten (in German). Bielefeld: Delius Klasing. p. 136. ISBN 978-3-667-10706-0.