Olaf Pollack

Olaf Pollack

Personal information
Full name	Olaf Pollack
Born	(1973-09-20) September 20, 1973 Räckelwitz, Germany
Team information
Current team	Retired
Discipline	Road and track
Role	Rider
Professional team(s)
1997-1999	Agro-Adler-Brandenburg
2000-2004	Team Gerolsteiner
2005-2006	T-Mobile Team
2007	Team Wiesenhof
2008	Volksbank
2009	RSC Cottbus
Medal record Representing  Germany Track cycling Olympic Games 2000 Sydney 4000m Pursuit World Championships 2008 Manchester Madison 1999 Berlin Madison
Infobox last updated on 3 June 2012

Olaf Pollack (born September 20, 1973 in Räckelwitz, Germany) is a former professional track cyclist and road racing cyclist specializing in sprint races and competitions.

Track race

At the 2000 Olympic Games, Pollack entered the team pursuit and the madison. Pollack rode in the qualifying rounds for the team pursuit, but was not used in the German team that rode the final and won; Pollack still received a golden medal.^[1] At the madison, Pollack rode together with Guido Fulst, and finished in sixth place.^[1]

Pollack returned to the track in 2008, when he rode at the 2008 UCI Track Cycling World Championships, and finished in second place in the madison. At the 2008 Olympic Games, Pollack rode the madison together with Roger Kluge, and they finished fifth.^[1]

Road race

Olaf Pollack began his road cycling career at small German team Agro-Adler-Brandenburg in 1997. After 3 years he left for Team Gerolsteiner. In 2005 and 2006 he rode for T-Mobile leaving in 2007 for Team Wiesenhof. The highlight of his road cycling career was wearing the pink leader's jersey at the 2006 Giro d'Italia. In August 2009, an eye problem made him end his cycling career, but a month later it became known that he had failed a drug test.^[2] In 2009 he was suspended by the German Cycling Federation.^[3]

Major results

References

External links

• Olaf Pollack profile at Cycling Archives