Rolf Sørensen

Paris–Tours 1998
Personal information
Full name	Rolf Sørensen
Nickname	Il Biondo
Born	(1965-04-20)20 April 1965 (age 60) Helsinge, Denmark
Height	1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Weight	70 kg (154 lb; 11 st 0 lb)
Team information
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Professional teams
1986–1987	Fanini
1988–1992	Ariostea
1993	Carrera Jeans–Tassoni
1994–1995	GB–MG Maglificio
1996–2000	Rabobank
2001	CSC–Tiscali
2002	Landbouwkrediet–Colnago
Major wins
Grand Tours Tour de France 2 individual stages (1994,1996) 2 TTT stages (1991,1994) Giro d'Italia 1 individual stage (1995) 1 TTT stage (1989) Stage races Tirreno–Adriatico (1987,1992) One-day races and Classics Liège–Bastogne–Liège (1993) Tour of Flanders (1997) Paris–Tours (1990) Paris–Brussels (1992, 1994) Milano–Torino (1993) Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne (1996)
Medal record Representing Denmark Men'sroad bicycle racing Olympic Games 1996 Atlanta Individual Road Race

Rolf Sørensen (born 20 April 1965) is a Danish former professionalroad bicycle racer. He is currently working as a cyclingcommentator andagent. Born inHelsinge in Denmark, Sørensen moved to Italy at the age of 17, where he has lived since. He goes under the nameIl Biondo due to his blonde hair.

Sørensen won such classic one-day races as theTour of Flanders,Liège–Bastogne–Liège,Paris–Brussels,Paris–Tours andMilano–Torino, as well as slightly smaller races like theCoppa Bernocchi (twice), and theRund um den Henninger Turm or Grand Prix Frankfurt. He has led theUCI Road World Cup on several occasions, finishing third in 1989 and 1991 and second in 1997 after a broken foot kept him from scoring points in the last two World Cup races of the season.

Sørensen also won individual stages in the1994 and1996 Tour de France, and wore theyellow jersey as the leader of the race after the team time trial in 1991, won by his Italian team Ariostea. He kept it until he broke hiscollar bone in a fall four days later.

Rolf Sørensen participated in the Tour de France seven times, the last time being in 2001. He has also won a number of stages in other stage races, among them stage 9 of the 1995Giro d'Italia, three stages in theTour of the Basque Country, six stages inTirreno–Adriatico, two in theTour de Suisse, and two in theTour de Romandie.

Sørensen also claimed the silver medal at the1996 Olympics.

For many years, Sørensen denied that he used performance-enhancing drugs, but more than a decade after the end of his career as a professional cyclist, he admitted usingEPO, and to some extent,Cortisone. He broke the news to Danish TV2 on 18 March 2013.^[1]

Rolf is the son of cyclistJens Sørensen, who competed for Denmark at the1960 Summer Olympics in theteam pursuit.^[2]

Grand Tour	1987	1988	1989	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002
Giro d'Italia	—	42	DNF	—	DNF	—	—	30	61	—	—	—	—	—	—	124
Tour de France	—	—	–	–	DNF	—	70	19	–	28	68	–	–	–	141	–
Vuelta a España	–	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	–	—	—	59	DNF	—	—	—

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