Olaf Jentzsch Explained

Olaf Jentzsch
Birth Date:	3 December 1958
Birth Place:	Riesa, East Germany
Role:	Rider
Proyears1:	1990-1992
Proteam1:	Tulip Computers-KOGA

Olaf Jentzsch (born 3 December 1958 in Riesa) is a German former racing cyclist.^[1] As a professional rider of team Tulip Computers-KOGA, he rode in the 1992 Tour de France^{[2] [3]} and the 1992 Giro d'Italia. As a citizen of East Germany he was only allowed to ride amateur races before 1990. Jentzsch managed to win a whole series of amateur stage races and stages, of which only a selection is shown below.

Major Results

1981

• GDR champion on the road^[4]

1983

• Overall Vuelta a Cuba
• Stage 5a Coors Classic

1984

• GDR champion on the road

1985

• Overall Tour of Austria
• Stage 5 Coors Classic

1986

• GDR champion individual time trial on the road

1987

• Overall and stage 6 Tour of Greece
• Overall Tour of Yugoslavia

1988

• Overall Tour du Loir-et-Cher

1989

• Stage 9 Clásico RCN

1990

• Stage 1 Giro del Trentino

Notes and References

1. Web site: Olaf Jentzsch . Cycling Archives . 12 September 2020.
2. Web site: Tour de France 1992 . Cycling Archives . 12 September 2020.
3. Web site: 79ème Tour de France 1992. Memoire du cyclisme. https://web.archive.org/web/20120124044008/http://www.memoire-du-cyclisme.net/eta_tdf_1978_2005/tdf1992.php. 24 January 2012.
4. See German version of this page.