Danilo Hondo (born 4 January 1974) is a German former professional

road bicycle racer Road bicycle racing is the cycle sport discipline of road cycling, held primarily on paved roads. Road racing is the most popular professional form of bicycle racing, in terms of numbers of competitors, events and spectators. The two most com ...

. He won the German National Road Race in 2002. He competed in the men's team pursuit at the

1996 Summer Olympics The 1996 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXVI Olympiad, also known as Atlanta 1996 and commonly referred to as the Centennial Olympic Games) were an international multi-sport event held from July 19 to August 4, 1996, in Atlanta, ...

. He was banned from professional cycling and then later won his appeal to return to the sport. From January 2015 to May 2019, Hondo worked as a coach for the Swiss cycling federation, first for the under-23 squad and then with the elite. He owns a bike shop on the island of

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. Hondo was born in

Guben Guben (Polish language, Polish and Sorbian languages, Sorbian: ''Gubin'') is a town on the Lusatian Neisse river in Lower Lusatia, in the States of Germany, state of Brandenburg, in eastern Germany. Located in the Spree-Neiße Districts of German ...

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Doping

In 2005 Hondo was suspended and fired after testing positive for

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at the 2005

Vuelta a Murcia The Vuelta Ciclista a Murcia () is a road bicycle race held in and around Murcia, Spain. The first four editions were reserved to amateurs. Originally the race was held in early March and consisted of five stages. However, due to Spain's fina ...

. Originally suspended for two years, Hondo's suspension was cut to 1 year in June 2005. In January 2006, Hondo had his ban extended to 2 years when he lost his appeal to the

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. In March 2006, has won his appeal in civil court, which gave Hondo an early end to his suspension. In 2009, he signed for a 3-year contract for . Following revelations about blood doping by

Erfurt Erfurt () is the capital (political), capital and largest city of the Central Germany (cultural area), Central German state of Thuringia, with a population of around 216,000. It lies in the wide valley of the Gera (river), River Gera, in the so ...

-based doctor Mark Schmidt, Hondo confessed to having been a client of his in an interview with German broadcaster ARD on 12 May 2019. He said that he had paid €30,000 to Schmidt for blood transfusions in 2011. Hondo was subsequently fired by the Swiss federation.

Major results

;1994 : 1st Jersey rainbow

Team pursuit The team pursuit is a track cycling event similar to the individual pursuit, except that two teams, each of up to four riders, compete, starting on opposite sides of the velodrome. Race format Both men's and women's events are competed over ...

UCI Track World Championships The UCI Track Cycling World Championships are the set of world championship events for the various disciplines and distances in track cycling. They are regulated by the Union Cycliste Internationale. Before 1900, they were administered by the UCI ...

;1996 : 3rd Bronze medal blank

;1998 : 1st Stage 4

Vuelta Ciclista de Chile The Vuelta Ciclista de Chile is an annual Chilean elite men's professional road cycling stage race A race stage, leg, or heat is a unit of a racing, race that has been divided in several parts for the reason such as length of the distance to ...

;1999 : Course de la Paix ::1st Stages 1, 4 & 5 : 1st Stage 1 Regio-Tour ;2000 : Course de la Paix ::1st Stages 3 & 5 : 1st Stage 1b Tour of Sweden ;2001 :

Giro d'Italia The Giro d'Italia (; ), also known simply as the Giro, is an annual stage race, multiple-stage bicycle racing, bicycle race primarily held in Italy, while also starting in, or passing through, other countries. The first race was organized in 19 ...

::1st Stages 2 & 3 ::Held Jersey violet

after Stages 3–11 : 1st Tour de Berne : 1st Stage 1 Three Days of De Panne : 1st Stage 1 Danmark Rundt : 1st Stage 4 Ronde van Nederland : 1st Jersey green

Points classification

Paris–Nice Paris–Nice is a professional road bicycle racing, cycling stage race in France, held annually since 1933. Raced over eight days, the race usually starts with a prologue in the Paris region and ends with a final stage either in Nice or on the ...

;2002 : 1st MaillotAllemania

Road race, National Road Championships : 1st Stage 2

Volta a Catalunya The Volta a Catalunya (; Tour of Catalonia, ) is a road bicycle race held annually in Catalonia, Spain. It is one of three World Tour stage races in Spain, together with the Vuelta a España and the Tour of the Basque Country. The race has had ...

: 1st Stage 2

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 ...

: 1st Stage 3 Hessen-Rundfahrt ;2003 : Course de la Paix ::1st Stages 1 & 2 : 2nd

Rund um Köln The Rund um Köln is a Classic cycle races, classic cycling race around the German city of Cologne. Since 2005 it is part of the UCI Europe Tour, being organised as UCI race classifications, 1.1 race (in 2007 the race was categorised as 1.HC). It ...

;2004 : 1st Gran Premio Bruno Beghelli : 1st Stage 1 Tour du Poitou-Charentes : 1st Stage 5

: 2nd Overall Three Days of De Panne ::1st Stage 1 : 2nd

: 2nd Rund um den Henninger Turm : 2nd

Paris–Tours Paris–Tours is a French one-day classic road cycling race held every October from the outskirts of Paris to the cathedral city of Tours. It is a predominantly flat course through the Chevreuse and Loire valleys; the highest point is 200 m ...

: 3rd Trofeo Manacor : 5th Overall

Four Days of Dunkirk The Four Days of Dunkirk () is road bicycle race around the Nord-Pas de Calais region of northern France. Despite the name of the race, since the addition of an individual time trial in 1963, the race has been held over a 5 or 6 day period for ...

::1st Stage 5 ( ITT) : 6th Overall Niedersachsen-Rundfahrt ::1st Stages 1, 2, 4 & 5 ;2005 : 2nd

Milan–San Remo Milan–Sanremo (in italian language, Italian ''Milano-Sanremo''), also called "''The Spring classic''" or "''La Classicissima''", is an annual road bicycle racing, road cycling race between Milan and Sanremo, in Northwest Italy. With a distance ...

: 8th Overall

::1st Stages 1 & 2 ;2006 : 1st Omloop van de Vlaamse Scheldeboorden : 1st Neuseen Classics : Course de la Paix ::1st Stages 2 & 3 :

Circuito Montañés Circuito Montañés is a road cycling stage race held annually in Cantabria Cantabria (, ; ) is an autonomous community and Provinces of Spain, province in northern Spain with Santander, Cantabria, Santander as its capital city. It is call ...

::1st Stages 2 & 3 : 1st Stage 2 Sachsen-Tour : 2nd Overall Oddset–Rundfahrt : 2nd Overall Circuit Franco-Belge : 3rd Overall Regio-Tour ::1st Stage 1 : 3rd Rund um den Henninger Turm : 3rd Tour de Rijke : 3rd

Kampioenschap van Vlaanderen Kampioenschap van Vlaanderen (Championship of Flanders) or Koolskamp Koerse is a single-day road bicycle race held annually in September in Koolskamp (part-municipality of Ardooie), West Flanders, Belgium Belgium, officially the Kingdom ...

: 3rd Omloop van het Houtland ;2008 : 1st Stage 4

Tour de Langkawi The Tour de Langkawi is a stage race, multiple stage bicycle racing, bicycle race held in Malaysia. It is named after the archipelago Langkawi, where the first edition started and finished. The race has been held annually since 1996, primarily ...

;2009 : 1st Praha–Karlovy Vary–Praha : 1st Stage 7 Volta a Portugal : 2nd

Coppa Bernocchi The Coppa Bernocchi is a European Road bicycle racing, bicycle race held in Legnano, Italy. From 2005 to 2019, the race was organised as a UCI race classifications, 1.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour, before joining the UCI ProSeries in 2020. In 1 ...

: 7th Overall Course de la Solidarité Olympique ::1st Stage 5 ;2010 : 9th

Tour of Flanders The Tour of Flanders () may refer to the following cycle races: * Tour of Flanders (men's race) The Tour of Flanders (), also known as ''De Ronde'' (''"The Tour"''), is an annual road bicycle racing, road cycling race held in Belgium every spri ...

: 1st Stage 4 Giro di Sardegna : 2nd

;2011 : 10th Rund um den Finanzplatz Eschborn-Frankfurt

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

References

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Doping

Major results

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

See also

References

External links