Jörg Jaksche

Jörg Armin Jaksche (born 23 July 1976 in Fürth) is a German former road bicycle racer. In 2007 Jaksche admitted he was guilty of blood doping.

Biography Jaksche has been cycling professionally since 1997, racing for the teams Polti (1997–1998), Team Telekom (1998–2000), ONCE (2001–2003), CSC (2004), Liberty Seguros–Würth/Astana (2005–2006) and Tinkoff Credit Systems in 2007.

In 2004, he won the Tour Mediterranean and the Paris–Nice race.

In the 2005 Tour de France, Jaksche finished 16th overall, the best result of his six participations in the Tour. He had been 18th at the 1998 Tour de France and 17th at the 2003 Tour de France.

At the 2006 Tour de Suisse, Jaksche finished on the podium with a third-place finish.

Jaksche is now living in Sydney, Australia studying a Master of International Business at the University of New South Wales.

Doping Jaksche was one of the nine riders held out of the 2006 Tour de France after being identified by investigators in the Operación Puerto investigation. On 30 June 2007, Jaksche admitted he was guilty of blood doping and that he was the Bella mentioned in the documents confiscated from Fuentes' clinic.

Major results

1993 2nd Junior road race, National Road Championships 1994

3rd Overall Driedaagse van Axel 1996 1st Stage 1 Rapport Toer 2nd Overall Sachsen-Tour 1997

3rd World Military Time trial Championships 1998 3rd Road race, National Road Championships 1999 10th Züri-Metzgete 2000 4th Overall Volta a Catalunya 10th Overall Critérium International 2001 1st Stage 1 Volta a Catalunya (TTT) 3rd La Flèche Wallonne 8th Overall Paris–Nice 9th Gran Premio Miguel Induráin 10th Giro del Piemonte 2002 1st Stage 4 Tour de France (TTT) 1st Stage 1 Vuelta a España (TTT) 6th Overall Deutschland Tour 6th Overall Grand Prix du Midi Libre 7th Gran Premio Miguel Induráin 7th Overall Vuelta a la Comunidad Valenciana 10th Overall Tirreno–Adriatico 2003 1st Stage 1 Vuelta a España (TTT) 4th Overall Paris–Nice 4th Overall Deutschland Tour 2004 1st Overall Paris–Nice 1st Stage 1 1st Overall Tour Méditerranéen 1st Stage 5 3rd Overall Tour de Luxembourg 2005 3rd Overall Critérium International 4th Overall Deutschland Tour 5th Overall Paris–Nice 2006 2nd Overall Tirreno–Adriatico 3rd Overall Tour de Suisse 4th Overall Tour de Romandie 2007 1st Overall Circuit de Lorraine 1st Stage 5 2nd Overall Euskal Bizikleta

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

+ Legend — Did not compete DNF Did not finish