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}} Rudi Altig (born Mannheim, Baden, Germany, 18 March 1937) is a former professional track and road racing cyclist who won the 1962 Vuelta a España and the world championship in 1966. He is now a television commentator. ==Amateur career== Rudi Altig was born in an area which had produced good track riders.〔Sporting Cyclist, UK, December 1966〕 He began racing in 1952, following his older brother, Willi.〔 The brothers teamed for madison and other two-man races, becoming the best in the country.〔 The British promoter, Jim Wallace, booked Altig to ride with Hans Jaroszewicz〔Willi had been invited but had fallen ill.〕 at a meeting on Herne Hill velodrome in Good Friday in 1956. He said: :What a pair they made! They just about slaughtered a top-class field of international riders, with all our best home lads. Only Michel Rousseau, later that year to become world sprint champion, was able to take a points sprint from them. That was in the first sprint, too; thereafter the German pair gained not only every sprint for points but every prime (prize ) as well ... They went on to Coventry (meeting held over Easter ) and did much the same thing, winning everything in which they rode, so classy was their performance.〔 Altig became national sprint champion in 1957 and 1958. Then Karly Ziegler, a coach, took over his preparation when he joined the Endspurt Mannheim club and Altig became a pursuiter. He won the 1959 national pursuit championship and won the madison championship with his brother. Later that year he beat many of the world's best pursuiters to become world champion in Amsterdam. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Rudi Altig」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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