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Historic Overview Bjarne Riis

Rider

Overall Rank308
NameBjarne RIIS
Country
  Denmark
Date of birth03-Apr-1964 - Herning (Midtjylland)

Biography

Bjarne Riis

Bjarne Lykkegård Riis (Danish pronunciation: [ˈpjɑːnə ˈʁiˀs]; born 3 April 1964), nicknamed The Eagle from Herning (Danish: Ørnen fra Herning), is a Danish former professional road bicycle racer and cycling team manager. He won the 1996 Tour de France and later admitted to having doped throughout the most successful period of his career.

Riis's other major victories include the Amstel Gold Race in 1997 and multiple Danish national road race titles, and he took stage wins at the Tour de France and Giro d'Italia. After retiring in 2000, he founded and managed Team CSC, which competed under successive sponsors as Saxo Bank, Saxo Bank–SunGard and Tinkoff-Saxo and was one of the leading squads of the 2000s and early 2010s. Following the team's sale to Russian businessman Oleg Tinkov in late 2013, Riis continued as manager until he was dismissed in March 2015 after a dispute with Tinkov.

On 25 May 2007, Riis admitted he had used EPO, growth hormone and cortisone between 1993 and 1998, including during his Tour de France victory. The Tour's organisers, ASO, initially removed him from the list of winners, but in July 2008 reinstated his 1996 result with a footnote acknowledging his doping confession, after the UCI determined that the WADA Code's then-applicable eight-year statute of limitations had expired. Speaking at a cycling conference in Copenhagen in June 2025, Riis said he was not ashamed of his doping past, calling it "part of that period and a system that we all silently accepted".

source - Wikipedia

Badges

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Major Victories

Tour de France 1996
Amstel Gold Race 1997
Coppa Sabatini 1996
G.P. Herning 1996, 1997, 1998
Tour de France - stages 1993 (1), 1994 (1), 1996 (2)
Giro d'Italia - stages 1989 (1), 1993 (1)
Tour de l'Avenir - stages 1989 (1), 1990 (2)
Euskal Bizikleta - stages 1998 (1)
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Seasons

Bjarne Riis - Scores by Season

Year Team Score Rank
1. 1985 Individual 19 700
2. 1986 Roland - Van de Ven 93 450
3. 1987 Lucas - Arkel - Atlanta 96 456
4. 1988 Toshiba 152 350
5. 1989 Super U - Raleigh - Fiat 573 117
6. 1990 Castorama 554 129
7. 1991 Castorama - Raleigh 507 137
8. 1992 Ariostea 202 284
9. 1993 Ariostea 1289 27
10. 1994 Gewiss - Ballan 1433 27
11. 1995 Gewiss - Ballan 1581 18
12. 1996 Team Deutsche Telekom 2421 8
13. 1997 Team Deutsche Telekom 1983 14
14. 1998 Team Deutsche Telekom 928 67
15. 1999 Team Deutsche Telekom 17 929
Overall: 11848 308