Rolf Sørensen Biography

Danish cyclist

Rolf Sørensen (born 20 April 1965) is a former Danish professional road bicycle racer. He is currently working as a cycling commentator and agent. Born in Helsinge in Denmark, Sørensen moved to Italy at the age of 17, where he has lived since. He goes under the name Il Biondo due to his blonde hair.

Accomplishments

Sørensen won such cl*ic one-day races as the Tour of Flanders, Liège–Bastogne–Liège, Paris–Brussels, Paris–Tours and Milano–Torino, as well as slightly smaller races like the Coppa Bernocchi (twice), and the Rund um den Henninger Turm or Grand Prix Frankfurt. He has led the UCI Road World Cup on several occasions, finishing third in 1989 and 1991 and second in 1997 after a broken foot kept him from scoring points in the last two World Cup races of the season.

Sørensen also won individual stages in the 1994 and 1996 Tour de France, and wore the yellow jersey as the leader of the race after the team time trial in 1991, won by his Italian team Ariostea. He kept it until he broke his collar bone in a fall four days later.

Rolf Sørensen participated in the Tour seven times, the last in 2001. He has also won a number of stages in other stage races, among them stage 9 of the 1995 Giro d'Italia, three stages in the Tour of the Basque Country, six stages in Tirreno–Adriatico, two in the Tour de Suisse, and two in the Tour de Romandie.

Sørensen also claimed the silver medal at the 1996 Olympics.

Doping

For many years Sørensen denied that he used performance-enhancing drugs, but more than a decade after the end of his career as a professional cyclist he admitted using EPO, and to some extent, Cortisone. He broke the news to Danish TV2 on March 18, 2013.

Career achievements

Major results

19861st Points cl*ification Danmark Rundt9th Milan–San Remo19871st Overall Tirreno–Adriatico1st Grand Prix Pino Cerami2nd Overall Danmark Rundt1st Young rider cl*ification3rd Overall Settimana InterNational Socialist German Workers' Partyonale di Coppi e Bartali19881st Gran Premio Città di Camaiore2nd Overall Danmark Rundt1st Points cl*ification1st Young rider cl*ification2nd Züri–Metzgete2nd Rund um den Henninger Turm3rd Overall Tirreno–Adriatico3rd Giro dell'Emilia3rd Grand Prix Pino Cerami8th Liège–Bastogne–Liège19891st Stage 3 (TTT) Giro d'Italia1st Coppa Bernocchi1st Giro dell'Etna2nd Coppa Ugo Agostoni3rd Gent–Wevelgem4th Tour of Flanders4th Züri–Metzgete9th Rund um den Henninger Turm19901st Overall Settimana InterNational Socialist German Workers' Partyonale di Coppi e Bartali1st Paris–Tours1st Trofeo Laigueglia2nd Coppa Bernocchi6th Züri–Metzgete6th Tre Valli Varesine7th Milano–Torino1991Tour de France1st Stage 2 (TTT)Held after Stage 2-51st Stage 9 Tour de Suisse2nd Milan–San Remo3rd UCI Road World Cup3rd Tour of Flanders3rd Liège–Bastogne–Liège5th Giro di Lombardia19921st Overall Tirreno–Adriatico1st Stage 31st Paris–Brussels5th Giro di Lombardia7th Rund um den Henninger Turm9th Milano–Torino10th Milan–San Remo19931st Liège–Bastogne–Liège1st Milano–Torino1st Rund um den Henninger Turm1st Coppa Bernocchi1st Stage 7 Tirreno–Adriatico1st Stage 9 Tour de Suisse1st Stage 3a Three Days of De PanneTour de Romandie1st Stage 1, 2 & 62nd Overall Tour of the Basque Country5th Milan–San Remo6th La Flèche Wallonne1994Tour de France1st Stages 3 (TTT) & 141st Paris–Brussels1st Trofeo Laigueglia6th Overall Tirreno–Adriatico6th Road race, UCI Road World Championships19951st Stage 9 Giro d'Italia2nd Overall Three Days of De Panne2nd Milano–Torino3rd Paris–Brussels4th Giro di Lombardia5th Giro dell'Emilia8th Liège–Bastogne–Liège9th Road race, UCI Road World Championships19961st Stage 13 Tour de France1st Overall Ronde van Nederland1st Stage 41st Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne1st Stage 7 Tirreno–Adriatico2nd Overall Danmark Rundt2nd Road race, Olympic Games3rd Rund um den Henninger Turm9th Liège–Bastogne–Liège9th Paris–Brussels9th De Brabantse Pijl19971st Tour of Flanders1st Prologue Tirreno–Adriatico1st Stage 3b Three Days of De Panne2nd UCI Road World Cup3rd Züri–Metzgete4th Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne6th Paris–Roubaix8th Milan–San Remo10th Amstel Gold Race19981st Overall Ronde van Nederland2nd Overall Danmark Rundt4th Overall Tirreno–Adriatico1st Stage 54th Overall Three Days of De Panne6th Paris–Roubaix19992nd Overall Danmark Rundt1st Stage 14th Overall Three Days of De Panne7th Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne20001st Overall Danmark Rundt3rd De Brabantse Pijl8th Milan–San Remo8th Paris–Tours20014th Tour of Flanders10th Milan–San Remo10th Paris–Roubaix20026th Tour of Flanders

Monuments results timeline

References

External links

• (in Danish) DCU profile
• (in Danish) Trap-Friis profile