Rolf Järmann

Rolf Järmann
Personal information

Full name	Rolf Järmann
Born	(1966-01-31) 31 January 1966 (age 55) Arbon, Switzerland
Height	1.82 m (6 ft 0 in)
Weight	73 kg (161 lb; 11 st 7 lb)
Team information
Current team	Retired
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Major wins
Amstel Gold Race (1993, 1998)

Rolf Järmann (born 31 January 1966 in Arbon) is a retired road bicycle racer from Switzerland, who was a professional rider from 1988 to 1999. He twice won the Amstel Gold Race (1993 and 1998) during his career. He was the Swiss National Road Race champion in 1990.^[1] He also won the Tour de Pologne 1997.^[2]

According to a Cyclingnews.com report, in his book Doping, Spitzensport als gesellschaftliches Problem (Doping, Top Sport as a Social Problem), Järmann admits to using EPO.^[3]

Teams[]

1988: Cyndarella-Isotonic (Switzerland)
1989: Frank-Toyo-Magniflex (Switzerland)
1990: Pneuhaus Frank-Toyo (Switzerland)
1991: Weinmann-Eddy Merckx (Switzerland)
1992: Ceramiche Ariostea (Italy)
1993: Ceramiche Ariostea (Italy)
1994: GB-MG Maglificio (Italy)
1995: MG Maglificio-Technogym (Italy)
1996: MG Maglificio-Technogym (Italy)
1997: Casino-C'est votre equipe (France)
1998: Casino-C'est votre equipe (France)
1999: Post Swiss Team (Switzerland)

Tour de France[]

1991 – 83rd place
1992 – 62nd place (most combative rider on 3 stages, winner 12th stage)
1993 – 54th place
1994 – 73rd place
1995 – 67th place
1996 – 90th place

Major results[]

1988

Stausee-Rundfahrt Klingnau

1989

Giro d'Italia:

Winner stage 4

1990

1st

Road race, National Road Championships

1992

Tour de France:

Winner stage 12

1993: Amstel Gold Race
1995: GP Ouest-France; Tour de Luxembourg
1997: Tour de Pologne
1998: 1st Overall Tirreno–Adriatico; Amstel Gold Race

References[]

^ "National Championship, Road, Elite, Switzerland (Men)". Cycling Archives. Retrieved 14 March 2015.
^ "Tour de Pologne". Cycling Archives. Retrieved 28 March 2015.
^ cyclingnews.com, Sep 8, 2000

External links[]

Rolf Järmann at Cycling Archives
Official Tour de France results for Rolf Järmann

show v t Swiss National Road Race Champions (men)
1880–1899	Edouard Wicky (1892–1893) Henri Favre (1894–1895) Jean Viarret (1896–1897) Albert Furrer (1898) Fritz Ryser (1899)
1900–1919	Charles Lugon (1900) Ernst Dubach (1902) Alexandre Castellino (1904) Henri Rheinwald (1908) Charles Guyot (1909–1910) Marcel Perrière (1911) Henri Rheinwald (1912) Otto Wiedmer (1913) Oscar Egg (1914) Marcel Perrière (1915–1916) Ernst Kaufmann (1917–1918) Henri Rheinwald (1919)
1920–1939	Heiri Suter (1920–1922) Henri Guillod (1923) Kastor Notter (1924–1925) Heiri Suter (1926) Kastor Notter (1927) Albert Blattmann (1928) Heiri Suter (1929) Georges Antenen (1930) Albert Büchi (1931) August Erne (1932) Georges Antenen (1933) Hans Gilgen (1934) Paul Egli (1935–1936) Leo Amberg (1937–1938) Karl Litschi (1939)
1940–1959	Edgar Buchwalder (1940) Karl Litschi (1941) Edgar Buchwalder (1942) Hans Knecht (1943) Ernst Näf (1944) Ernst Wüthrich (1945) Hans Knecht (1946–1947) Ferdinand Kübler (1948–1951) Gottfried Weilenmann (1952) Fritz Schär (1953) Ferdinand Kübler (1954) Hugo Koblet (1955) Rolf Graf (1956) Hans Hollenstein (1957) Jean-Claude Grèt (1958) Rolf Graf (1959)
1960–1979	René Strehler (1960) Ernst Fuchs (1961) Rolf Graf (1962) Attilio Moresi (1963) Rudolf Hauser (1964) Robert Hagmann (1965) Paul Zollinger (1966) Alfred Rüegg (1967) Karl Brand (1968) Bernard Vifian (1969) Kurt Rub (1970) Louis Pfenninger (1971) Josef Fuchs (1972–1973) Roland Salm (1974–1977) Gottfried Schmutz (1978) Hansjörg Aemisegger (1979)
1980–1999	Gottfried Schmutz (1980) Stefan Mutter (1981) Gilbert Glaus (1982) Serge Demierre (1983) Erich Maechler (1984) Gottfried Schmutz (1985) Urs Zimmermann (1986) Jörg Müller (1987) Hubert Seiz (1988) Pascal Richard (1989) Rolf Järmann (1990) Laurent Dufaux (1991) Thomas Wegmüller (1992) Pascal Richard (1993) Felice Puttini (1994–1995) Armin Meier (1996) Oscar Camenzind (1997) Niki Aebersold (1998) Armin Meier (1999)
2000–2019	Markus Zberg (2000) Martin Elmiger (2001) Alexandre Moos (2002) Daniel Schnider (2003) Grégory Rast (2004) Martin Elmiger (2005) Grégory Rast (2006) Beat Zberg (2007) Markus Zberg (2008) Fabian Cancellara (2009) Martin Elmiger (2010) Fabian Cancellara (2011) Martin Kohler (2012) Michael Schär (2013) Martin Elmiger (2014) Danilo Wyss (2015) Jonathan Fumeaux (2016) Silvan Dillier (2017) Steve Morabito (2018) Sébastien Reichenbach (2019)
2020–2039	Stefan Küng (2020) Silvan Dillier (2021)

show v t Tour de Pologne winners
1928–1939	Feliks Więcek (1928) Józef Stefański (1929) Jerzy Lipiński (1933) Bolesław Napierała (1937) Bolesław Napierała (1939)
1940–1959	Stanisław Grzelak (1947) Wacław Wójcik (1948) Francesco Locatelli (1949) Wacław Wójcik (1952) Mieczysław Wilczewski (1953) Marian Więckowski (1954-1956) Henryk Kowalski (1957) Bogusław Fornalczyk (1958) Wiesław Podobas (1959)
1960–1979	Roger Diercken (1960) Henryk Kowalski (1961) Jan Kudra (1962) Stanisław Gazda (1963) Rajmund Zieliński (1964) Józef Beker (1965) Józef Gawliczek (1966) Andrzej Bławdzin (1967) Jan Kudra (1968) Wojciech Matusiak (1969) Jan Stachura (1970) Stanisław Szozda (1971) José Viejo (1972) Lucjan Lis (1973) André Delcroix (1974) Tadeusz Mytnik (1975) Janusz Kowalski (1976) Lechosław Michalak (1977) Jan Brzeźny (1978) Henryk Charucki (1979)
1980–1999	Czesław Lang (1980) Jan Brzeźny (1981) Andrzej Mierzejewski (1982) Tadeusz Krawczyk (1983) Andrzej Mierzejewski (1984) Marek Leśniewski (1985) Marek Kulas (1986) Zbigniew Piątek (1987) Andrzej Mierzejewski (1988) Marek Wrona (1989) Mieczysław Karłowicz (1990) Dariusz Baranowski (1991-1993) Maurizio Fondriest (1994) Zbigniew Spruch (1995) Viatcheslav Djavanian (1996) Rolf Järmann (1997) Sergei Ivanov (1998) Tomasz Brożyna (1999)
2000–2019	Piotr Przydział (2000) Ondřej Sosenka (2001) Laurent Brochard (2002) Cezary Zamana (2003) Ondřej Sosenka (2004) Kim Kirchen (2005) Stefan Schumacher (2006) Johan Vansummeren (2007) Jens Voigt (2008) Alessandro Ballan (2009) Dan Martin (2010) Peter Sagan (2011) Moreno Moser (2012) Pieter Weening (2013) Rafał Majka (2014) Ion Izagirre (2015) Tim Wellens (2016) Dylan Teuns (2017) Michał Kwiatkowski (2018) Pavel Sivakov (2019)
2020–2039	Remco Evenepoel (2020) João Almeida (2021)

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