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Bjarne Riis
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Danish cyclist, born 1964
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Bjarne Riis, born Bjarne Lykkegård Riis on April 3, 1964, in Herning, is a Danish sport cyclist specializing in road bicycle racing. He represented Denmark in international competitions, including the 1996 Summer Olympics, the Vuelta a España, and the Tour de France in both 1996 and 1997. Throughout his career, he rode for teams such as T-Mobile, Safir, La Vie claire, and Système U.
Riis has received the Silbernes Lorbeerblatt award. He resides in Vejle and speaks Danish. He is married to Anne Dorthe Tanderup. In addition to his athletic career, Riis is an author with one listed work titled *Riis*. He is also referenced by 394 other encyclopedia articles.
Synthesized by Vinony from 29 facts across 6 sources: Wikidata, Open Library, Last.fm, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 1
Top works
- Riis
via Open Library + Wikidata
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 11
- Total plays
- 64
<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Bjarne+Riis">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- PD-1 Blockade in Tumors with Mismatch-Repair Deficiency
· 2015 · cited 8,233x
- Mismatch repair deficiency predicts response of solid tumors to PD-1 blockade
· 2017 · cited 5,787x
- Detection of Circulating Tumor DNA in Early- and Late-Stage Human Malignancies
· 2014 · cited 4,112x
- DNA methylation-based classification of central nervous system tumours
· 2018 · cited 2,752x
- Quantification of biofilm structures by the novel computer program comstat
· 2000 · cited 1,938x
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Key facts
- 1986
- Roland
- 1987
- Lucas
- 1988
- Toshiba–Look
- 1989
- Super U–Raleigh–Fiat
- 2016
- Team Virtu Pro–Véloconcept
- Full name
- Bjarne Lykkegård Riis
- Nickname
- Ørnen fra Herning , (The Eagle from Herning)
- Born
- ( 1964-04-03 ) 3 April 1964 (age 62) , Herning , Denmark
- Height
- 1.84 m (6 ft 1 ⁄ 2 in)
- Weight
- 71 kg (157 lb; 11 st 3 lb)
- Discipline
- Road
- Role
- Rider (retired), Team manager
- Rider type
- All-rounder
- 1990 1991
- Castorama
- 1992 1993
- Ariostea
- 1994 1995
- Gewiss–Ballan
- 1996 1999
- Team Telekom
- 1999 2015
- home–Jack & Jones
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Bjarne Lykkegård Riis ( Danish pronunciation: [ˈpjɑːnə ˈʁiˀs]; born 3 April 1964), nicknamed The Eagle from Herning (Danish: Ørnen fra Herning), is a Danish former professional road bicycle racer and cycling team manager. He won the 1996 Tour de France and later admitted to having doped throughout the most successful period of his career.
Riis's other major victories include the Amstel Gold Race in 1997 and multiple Danish national road race titles, and he took stage wins at the Tour de France and Giro d'Italia. After retiring in 2000, he founded and managed Team CSC, which competed under successive sponsors as Saxo Bank, Saxo Bank–SunGard and Tinkoff-Saxo and was one of the leading squads of the 2000s and early 2010s. Following the team's sale to Russian businessman Oleg Tinkov in late 2013, Riis continued as manager until he was dismissed in March 2015 after a dispute with Tinkov.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Bjarne Riis” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.