Olaf Pollack

Olaf Pollack (born 20 September 1973) is a German former professional track 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. For winning the gold medal at the Olympic Games 2000 Pollack was decorated with the Silver Laurel Leaf by Bundespräsident Johannes Rau (President of the Federal Republic of Germany) on 2 February 2001 At the madison, Pollack rode together with Guido Fulst, and finished in sixth place.

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.

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 jersey as leader of the general classification at the 2004 and 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. In 2009 he was suspended by the German Cycling Federation.

Major results

 * 1990
 * 2nd, World Championship, Track, Team Pursuit, Juniors, Middlesbrough


 * 1991
 * 2nd, World Championship, Track, Team Pursuit, Juniors


 * 1997 – Agro Adler
 * 1st, 1 stage &mdash; Niedersachsen Rundfahrt
 * 1st, 1 stage &mdash; Clásico RCN


 * 1998 – Agro-Adler-Brandenburg
 * 1st, 2 stages &mdash; Tour of Slovenia
 * 1st, 2 stages &mdash; Olympia's Ronde


 * 1999 – Agro-Adler-Brandenburg
 * 1st, 1 stage &mdash; Peace Race
 * 1st, 1 stage &mdash; Tour of Chile
 * 2nd, Rund um Berlin
 * 2nd, National Championship, Track, Team Pursuit, Elite
 * 2nd, National Championship, Road, ITT, Elite
 * 3rd, World Championship, Track, Madison, Elite, Berlin
 * 3rd, General Classification, Niedersachsen Rundfahrt
 * 1st, 1 stage


 * 2000 – Team Gerolsteiner
 * 1st, 2 stages &mdash; Rapport-Toer
 * 1st, 1 stage &mdash; Tour of Tasmania
 * 1st, National Championship, Track, Madison, Elite
 * 2nd, Six Days, Berlin


 * 2001 – Team Gerolsteiner
 * 1st, 2 stages &mdash; Niedersachsen Rundfahrt
 * 1st &mdash; Rund um die Nürnberger Altstadt


 * 2002 – Team Gerolsteiner
 * 1st overall &mdash; Groningen–Münster
 * 1st, General Classification &mdash; Niedersachsen Rundfahrt
 * 1st, Stage 2 and Stage 3
 * 1st, Stages 1, 2, 3 &mdash; Peace Race
 * 1st, Points Classification &mdash; Danmark Rundt
 * 1st, Stage 5
 * 1st, Groningen-Münster
 * 1st, Stage 1 &mdash; Hessen-Rundfahrt
 * 2nd, Rund um die Nürnberger Altstadt
 * 2nd, Paris–Brussels
 * 3rd, General Classification Driedaagse van West-Vlaanderen
 * 3rd, Criterium, Bad Salgau


 * 2003 – Team Gerolsteiner
 * 1st, Points Classification &mdash; Bayern Rundfahrt
 * 1st, Stage 5 &mdash; Niedersachsen Rundfahrt
 * 1st, Stage 7 &mdash; Deutschland Tour
 * 2nd, Krefeld–Rund um die Sparkasse
 * 2nd, General Classification Tour of Qatar
 * 2nd, Groningen–Münster


 * 2004 – Team Gerolsteiner
 * 1st, Stage 2 &mdash; Sachsen-Tour
 * 1st (after Stage 1), general classification &mdash; Giro d'Italia
 * 112th, General Classification
 * 2nd, Criterium, Radevormwald


 * 2005 – T-Mobile Team
 * 2006 – T-Mobile Team
 * Giro d'Italia
 * 3rd, points classification
 * 132nd, General Classification
 * Tour of California
 * 1st, Stages 6 & 7
 * 1st, Points Classification (Green jersey)
 * 1st, Stage 1 Cologne Classic
 * 1st, Stage 4 Post Danmark Rundt
 * 2nd, Criterium, Radevormwald


 * 2007 – Team Wiesenhof–Felt
 * 1st, Stage 1, Critérium International
 * 1st, Rheda–Wiedenbrück
 * 1st, Dahme Trophy
 * 2nd, Derny Cup, Griessen
 * 2nd, National Championship, Track, Pursuit, Elite, Germany, Berlin
 * 2nd, National Championship, Track, Team Pursuit, Elite, Germany, Berlin
 * 2nd, National Championship, Track, Madison, Elite, Germany, Berlin
 * 2nd, Rund um die Nürnberger Altstadt, Nürnberg
 * 3rd, Six Days, Stuttgart


 * 2008
 * 3rd, World Cup, Track, Madison, Los Angeles