Christian Lademann (born 30 October 1975, Blankenburg) is a former

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professional

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. Lademann became world champion at the

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in 1999 in the team pursuit with the German team, a year after they had become Military World Champions and Vice World Champions. On the road he already won the Tour of Tunisia as an amateur at the age of 18 and in 1999 a stage of the Tour of Rheinland Palatinate. In 2000 he rode for Agro-Adler Brandenburg winning two stages of the Tour of Chile and a stage in both the Tour of Argentina and the Tour of Lower Saxony. In 2001 he won the Tour of Brandenburg and a stage of the Peace Race. At the

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, Lademann with the German National Pursuit Team lost out to the Spanish Team in the ride off for bronze. From 2005 onwards until his retirement at the end of 2008, he rode under contract with the German continental team Sparkasse. In 2009 a sample of Lademann's from the year 2007 was retrospectively tested following newly developed test methods and found to be positive for EPO. Lademann did not request a B-sample, as he had already ended his professional career.

Major results

Road

;1999 : 1st Stage 7

Rheinland-Pfalz Rundfahrt The International Rheinland-Pfalz Rundfahrt was a stage race, multi-stage road bicycle racing, road bicycle race held in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. In the years from 1966 to 2007, it was considered one of the biggest sporting events in Rhine ...

;2000 :

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::1st Stages 8 & 9 ::1st Points Classification : 1st Stage 13 Vuelta a la Argentina ;2001 : 1st Stage 6

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: 1st Overall

Brandenburg-Rundfahrt The Brandenburg-Rundfahrt was a stage race, stage road bicycle racing, road cycling race that was held in Brandenburg, Germany. The race was on the UCI calendar in category 2.5 from 2001 to 2003. It was not held from 2004 through 2006, but returne ...

;2006 : 1st Stage 2 Bay Cycling Classic ;2007 : 1st Stage 7

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Track

;1996 : 1st MaillotAllemania

National team pursuit championships (with

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and Heiko Szonn) : 2nd Individual pursuit, Under-23 European Track Championships ;1997 : 1st Individual pursuit, Under-23 European Track Championships ;1998 : 2nd Team pursuit, World Track Championships ;1999 : 1st Team pursuit, World Track Championships (with

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and

) World Cup ;2001 : 1st MaillotAllemania

National Madison Championships (with Mathias Kahl)

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Lademann, Christian 1975 births Living people People from Blankenburg (Harz) Sportspeople from Bezirk Magdeburg German male cyclists German track cyclists Cyclists from Saxony-Anhalt Olympic cyclists for Germany Cyclists at the 2004 Summer Olympics Vuelta Ciclista de Chile stage winners