Jens Heppner

Jens Heppner
Personal information
Heppner in 2006
Full name	Jens Heppner
Nickname	Heppe
Born	(1964-12-23) 23 December 1964 Gera, Germany
Team information
Current team	Retired
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider Manager
Professional team(s)
1991	Panasonic–Sportlife
1992–2002	Team Telekom
2003–2005	Team Wiesenhof
Managerial team(s)
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 maglia rosa during 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]

Palmarès

1982

World Junior Team Time Trial Championship

1987

Hessen Rundfahrt

Sachsen Tour

1994

Germany National Road Race Championship

Tour du Limousin

1998

Tour de France:

Winner stage 3

1999

Rund um Köln

1999

Deutschland Tour

2000

Hof

Rund um den Pfaffenteich

2001

Hürth-Gleuel

2003

GP Buchholz

Gladbeck

2004

Stolberg-Gressenich

2005

Jena

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.

External links

Official website
Jens Heppner profile at Cycling Archives
Official Tour de France results for Jens Heppner

German National Road Race Champions (men)

1900–1919	Karl Wittig (1910) Ernst Franz (1913) Richard Golle (1919)

1920–1939	Paul Koch (1920) Adolf Huschke (1921) Richard Huschke (1922) Richard Golle (1923) Paul Kohl (1924) Richard Huschke (1925) Felix Manthey (1928) Kurt Stöpel (1934) Bruno Roth (1935) Georg Umbenhauer (1936) Erich Bautz (1937) Jupp Arents (1938) Walter Löber (1939)

1940–1959	Georg Stach (1940) Erich Bautz (1941) Karl Kittsteiner (1946) Georg Voggenreiter (1947) Otto Schenk (1948) Otto Ziege (1949) Erich Bautz (1950) Ludwig Hörmann (1951–1952) Heinz Müller (1953) Hermann Schild (1954) Hans Preiskeit (1955) Valentin Petry (1956) Franz Reitz (1957) Klaus Bugdahl (1958) Hans Junkermann (1959)

1960–1979	Hans Junkermann (1960–1961) Dieter Puschel (1962) Sigi Renz (1963) Rudi Altig (1964) Winfried Bölke (1965–1967) Rolf Wolfshohl (1968) Peter Glemser (1969) Rudi Altig (1970) Jürgen Tschan (1971) Wilfried Peffgen (1972) Günter Haritz (1974) Dietrich Thurau (1975–1976) Jürgen Kraft (1977) Gregor Braun (1978) Hans-Peter Jakst (1978)

1980–1999	Gregor Braun (1980) Hans Neumayer (1981–1982) Gregor Braun (1983) Reimund Dietzen (1984) Rolf Gölz (1985) Reimund Dietzen (1986) Peter Hilse (1987) Hartmut Bölts (1988) Darius Kaiser (1989) Udo Bölts (1990) Falk Boden (1991) Heinrich Trumheller (1992) Bernd Gröne (1993) Jens Heppner (1994) Udo Bölts (1995) Christian Henn (1996) Jan Ullrich (1997) Erik Zabel (1998) Udo Bölts (1999)

2000–2019	Rolf Aldag (2000) Jan Ullrich (2001) Danilo Hondo (2002) Erik Zabel (2003) Andreas Klöden (2004) Gerald Ciolek (2005) Dirk Müller (2006) Fabian Wegmann (2007–2008) Martin Reimer (2009) Christian Knees (2010) Robert Wagner (2011) Fabian Wegmann (2012) André Greipel (2013–2014) Emanuel Buchmann (2015)

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