Michael Rich is a professional road bicycle racer, who won the gold medal for his native country in the men's team time trial (100 km) at the 1992 Summer Olympics

1992 Summer Olympics

The 1992 Summer Olympic Games, officially known as the Games of the XXV Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event celebrated in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, in 1992. The International Olympic Committee voted in 1986 to separate the Summer and Winter Games, which had been held in the same...

 in Barcelona, Spain. His winning teammates were Christian Meyer

Christian Meyer

Christian Meyer is a retired track cyclist from Germany, who won the gold medal for his native country in the men's team time trial at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. His winning teammates were Michael Rich, Bernd Dittert and Uwe Peschel.-References:...

, Bernd Dittert

Bernd Dittert

Bernd Dittert is a retired racing cyclist from East Germany, who won the bronze medal for his native country in the men's 4,000m individual pursuit at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. Four years later he captured the gold medal in the men's team time trial , alongside Michael Rich,...

 and Uwe Peschel

Uwe Peschel

Uwe Peschel is a German professional road bicycle racer and a time trialist. At the 1992 Summer Olympics, Peschel along with Bernd Dittert, Christian Meyer and Michael Rich, captured the gold medal in the Men's Team Road Race.- Major achievements :199219961997 – Uwe Peschel is a German...

.

Rich is most famous for his individual time trial

Individual time trial

An individual time trial is a road bicycle race in which cyclists race alone against the clock . There are also track-based time trials where riders compete in velodromes, and team time trials...

 participations in the Grand Tours

Grand Tour (cycling)

In road bicycle racing, a Grand Tour refers to one of the three major European professional cycling stage races:* Tour de France – Tour of France , held in July* Giro d'Italia – Tour of Italy , held in May...

 (Tour de France

Tour de France

The Tour de France is an annual bicycle race held in France and nearby countries. First staged in 1903, the race covers more than and lasts three weeks. As the best known and most prestigious of cycling's three "Grand Tours", the Tour de France attracts riders and teams from around the world. The...

, Giro d'Italia

Giro d'Italia

The Giro d'Italia , also simply known as The Giro, is a long distance road bicycle racing stage race for professional cyclists held over three weeks in May/early June in and around Italy. The Giro is one of the three Grand Tours , and is part of the UCI World Ranking calendar...

 and Vuelta a España

Vuelta a España

The Vuelta a España is a three-week road bicycle racing stage race that is one of the three "Grand Tours" of Europe and part of the UCI World Ranking calendar. The race lasts three weeks and attracts cyclists from around the world. The race is broken into day-long segments, called stages...

). He is the father of two children.

Rich retired from racing in 2006.

Wins

1993 (Amateur)

1 stage, Rapport-Tour

1994 (Amateur)

Overall, Rapport-Tour

1 stage, Regio-Tour

Regio-Tour

The Regio-Tour is a multi-stage road bicycle race held between France, Switzerland and Germany. It was first held in 1985 and since 2005 it has been organised as a 2.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour...

1996 (Amateur)

2 stages, Rapport-Tour

1999

1 stage win, Regio-Tour

3 stages & Overall, Rapport-Tour

2000

Breitling GP (with Torsten Schmidt)

National Time Trial

Time trial

In many racing sports an athlete will compete in a time trial against the clock to secure the fastest time. In cycling, for example, a time trial  can be a single track cycling event, or an individual or team time trial on the road, and either or both of the latter may form components of...

 Championship

1 stage, Bayern-Rundfahrt

Bayern-Rundfahrt

The International Bayern Rundfahrt is a stage race cycling race held each year in Bavaria, Germany. Since 2005, the race has been organised as a 2.HC event on the UCI Europe Tour.The race was held as an amateur race between 1980 and 1988.- Winners :...

1 stage & Overall, Tour de la Somme

Tour de la Somme

Tour de la Somme is a single-day road bicycle race held annually in September in Somme, France.-List of winners:-External links:* *...

2001

1 stage, Niedersachsen-Rundfahrt

Niedersachsen-Rundfahrt

The Internationale Niedersachsen-Rundfahrt is a multi-stage road bicycle race held in Lower Saxony, Germany. It was first held in 1977 and since 2005 it has been organised as a 2.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour.-Winners:...

2002

1 stage, Niedersachsen-Rundfahrt

1 stage & Overall, Bayern-Rundfahrt

Chrono des Herbiers

1 stage, Deutschland Tour

Deutschland Tour

The Deutschland Tour was the most important multi-stage road bicycle race in Germany. Initially the race was held in May/June. Since 2005 it is part of the UCI ProTour and has been moved to August...

2003

1 stage & Overall, Bayern-Rundfahrt

Chrono des Herbiers

GP Eddy Merckx

Eddy Merckx

Edouard Louis Joseph, Baron Merckx , better known as Eddy Merckx, is a Belgian former professional cyclist. The French magazine Vélo called him "the most accomplished rider that cycling has ever known." The American publication, VeloNews, called him the greatest and most successful cyclist of all...

 (with Uwe Peschel

Uwe Peschel

Uwe Peschel is a German professional road bicycle racer and a time trialist. At the 1992 Summer Olympics, Peschel along with Bernd Dittert, Christian Meyer and Michael Rich, captured the gold medal in the Men's Team Road Race.- Major achievements :199219961997 – Uwe Peschel is a German...

)

National Time Trial Championships

Grand Prix des Nations

Grand Prix des Nations

The Grand Prix des Nations was an individual time trial for professional racing cyclists. Held annually in France, it was instituted in 1932 and often regarded as the unofficial time trial championship of the world and as a Classic cycle race. The race was the idea of a Parisian newspaper editor...

1 stage win, Niedersachsen-Rundfahrt

GP Karlsruhe (with Sebastian Lang

Sebastian Lang

Sebastian Lang is a German professional road bicycle racer and time trialist for UCI ProTour team . He rode on Team Gerolsteiner from 2002 until its demise in 2008, and in 2006 became Germany's national time trial champion....

)

2004

Grand Prix des Nations

1 stage, Deutschland Tour

2004 Deutschland Tour

These are the results for the 2004 edition of the Deutschland Tour cycling race, which was won by Germany's Patrik Sinkewitz.-Final classification:-31-05-2004: Karlsruhe-Karlsruhe, 23 km:-01-06-2004: Bad Urach-Wangen im Allgäu, 180 km:...

1 stage, Bayern-Rundfahrt

1 stage, Hessen-Rundfahrt

2005

Overall, Bayern-Rundfahrt

Notable results

• 2nd, 2000 World Time Trial Championships, Plouay
  Plouay
  Plouay is a commune in the Morbihan department in Brittany in north-western France.Plouay hosts the GP Ouest-France and the GP de Plouay, an annual cycling race . It was also the location of the World Championships of Cycling in 2000...
  
  
• 2nd, 2002 World Time Trial Championships, Heusden-Zolder
  Heusden-Zolder
  Heusden-Zolder is a municipality located in the Belgian province of province of Limburg near Hasselt. On 1 January 2006 Heusden-Zolder had a total population of 30,769...
  
  /Hasselt
  Hasselt
  Hasselt is a Belgian city and municipality, and capital of the Flemish province of Limburg...
  
  
• 2nd, 2004 World Time Trial Championships, Verona
  Verona
  Verona ; German Bern, Dietrichsbern or Welschbern) is a city in the Veneto, northern Italy, with approx. 265,000 inhabitants and one of the seven chef-lieus of the region. It is the second largest city municipality in the region and the third of North-Eastern Italy. The metropolitan area of Verona...