Telekom GP, Germany, Cat 1.1

Preview - Two Man time trial in Karlsruhe/Germany

The new hour record holder Chris Boardman and Tour de France winner Bjarne Riis are the stars of the international pair time trial in Karlsruhe on Sunday, September 15th (2 p.m.) The winners of the 84 km race will earn 80 points for the world ranking list and 50.000 Mark.

Boardman will ride together with Uwe Peschel (Germany), the only amateur among the 20 starters. In 1995, Peschel won the bronze medal at the world championships time trial in Columbia. Boardman got a new hour record in Manchester last Friday with 56,375 km. Bjarne Riis rides together with Jan Ullrich, the german newcomer who won the last Tour de France ITT 56 seconds ahead of Miguel Indurain. The first class group of starters is completed by Abraham Olano, ITT silver medalist at the Olympics, by Udo Bolts, winner of the world cup race Clasica San Sebastian, and Olaf Ludwig, who'll retire on October 3rd with a race in his hometown Gera.

The starters:

Erik Zabel/Jens Heppner (Ger) Team Telekom
Mario Cipollini/Mario Scirea (Ita) Saeco
Udo B=F6lts/Christian Henn (Ger) Team Telekom
Jewgeni Berzin/Gabriele Colombo (Rus/Ita) Gewiss
Olaf Ludwig/Rolf Aldag (Ger) Team Telekom
Andrea Ferrigato/Alexander Gontschenkow (Ita/Rus) Roslotto
Lance Armstrong/Sean Yates (USA/Gbr) Motorola
Chris Boardman/Uwe Peschel (Gbr/Ger) GAN/Amateur
Abraham Olano/Johan Museeuw (Spa/Bel) Mapei-GB
Bjarne Riis/Jan Ullrich (Den/Ger) Team Telekom

KARLSRUHE, Germany, Telekom Grand Prix, 84 km:

 1. Chris Boardman/Uwe Peschel (Gbr/Ger)    	     1.36.35 
 2. Olaf Ludwig/Rolf Aldag (Ger/Ger) 			2:05 
 3. Bjarne Riis/Jan Ullrich (Dan/Ger) 			2:06 
 4. Johan Museeuw/Abraham Olano (Bel/Spa) 		2:30
 5. Marco Fincato/Alexander Gonschenkov (Ita/Ukr) 	2:52 
 6. Evgeni Berzin/Gabriele Colombo (Rus/Ita) 		4:03 
 7. Udo Bolts/Christian Henn (Ger/Ger) 			4:38 
 8. Erik Zabel/Jens Heppner (Ger/Ger) 			4:52

Report

Britain's Chris Boardman teamed up with Germany's Uwe Peschel to win the Telekom Grand Prix time-trial by more than two minutes on Sunday.

They covered the 84 kilometres in one hour, 36 minutes and 35 seconds, beating Germans Olaf Ludwig and Rolf Aldag over seven laps of a 12-km circuit, with an average speed of 52.18 kph.

Third place fell to Tour de France winner Bjarne Riis of Denmark and German Jan Ullrich who was second in the Tour.

They were a second slower than Ludwig and Aldag, who recorded 1:38.40.

Boardman has crammed the world 4,000 metres pursuit title, the world hour record, and three prestige time-trial victories into less than three weeks. Sunday's success follows similar wins in Belgium and Switzerland.

His next major target is the world time-trial championship at Lugano next month.