More information about Rudi Altig. Beyond the Molteni years already mentioned, he also raced for Rapha-Gitane, St. Raphael-Helyett, St. Raphael, Margnat-Paloma, Salvarani, Zimba-GbC and GbC-Zimba & Looza. His older brother, Willi, raced alongside him for 7 years. He also won 23 6-day races. A more complete, but far from exhaustive palmarès would be:
1959: amateur: World Champion pursuit 1960: GP Alger (Fra) + Roger Rivière 1960: German pursuit champion 1960: World Champion pursuit (Leipzig-DDR) 1961: German pursuit champion 1962: World Champion pursuit 1962: German Madison champion 1962: GP Cannes (Fra) 1962: World record for 5 km in 6,076 1962: GC in Vuelta a España 1962: Final Points Classification in Vuelta a España 1962: 1st stage Tour de France, Spa 1962: 3rd stage Tour de France, Amiens 1962: 17th stage Tour de France, Antibes 1962: Final Points Classification Tour de France 1962: 3 stages Vuelta a España 1962: Critérium des As (Fra) 1962: Trofeo Baracchi (Ita) + Jacques Anquetil 1963: Genova-Nice 1963: German Madison champion 1963: European Champion Omnium 1963: Paris-Luxemburg 1964: 15th stage Tour de France 1964: Vuelta a Andalusia (Spa) 1964: Ronde van Vlaanderen (Bel) 1964: GP Dortmund (Wdl) 1964: German National road champion 1965: German National and European Champion Madison 1965: 1 Stage win Vuelta 1966: Giro del Piemonte (Ita) 1966: Giro della Toscana (Ita) 1966: European Champion omnium 1966: 3 Tour stages 1966: 2 Giro stages 1966: World Road Champion (Nurnburgring) 1966: Bremer Sechstagerennen 1967: Milano-Vignola (Ita) 1967: 2 Giro stages 1968: Milan-San Remo (Ita) 1968: 2 stages Vuelta 1968: Bremer Sechstagerennen 1969: GP Lugano (Swi) 1969: 1 Tour stage 1969: Circuit des genêts verts 1969: Zesdaagse Gent 1970: Sassari-Cagliari (Ita) 1970: Henninger Turm Frankfurt (Ger) 1970: German National Road Champion 1970: GP Frankfurt 1970: German National Road Champion 1971: Bremer Sechstagerennen
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