# Olaf Pollack

Olaf Pollack (born 20 September 1973) is a German former professional track and road racing cyclist specializing in sprint races and competitions.

## Track race

At the 2000 Olympic Games, Pollack entered the team pursuit and the madison. Pollack rode in the qualifying rounds for the team pursuit, but was not used in the German team that rode the final and won; Pollack still received a golden medal. For winning the gold medal at the Olympic Games 2000 Pollack was decorated with the Silver Laurel Leaf by Bundespräsident Johannes Rau (President of the Federal Republic of Germany) on 2 February 2001 At the madison, Pollack rode together with Guido Fulst, and finished in sixth place.
Pollack returned to the track in 2008, when he rode at the 2008 UCI Track Cycling World Championships, and finished in second place in the madison. At the 2008 Olympic Games, Pollack rode the madison together with Roger Kluge, and they finished fifth.

## Road race

Olaf Pollack began his road cycling career at small German team Agro-Adler-Brandenburg in 1997. After 3 years he left for Team Gerolsteiner. In 2005 and 2006 he rode for T-Mobile, leaving in 2007 for Team Wiesenhof. The highlight of his road cycling career was wearing the pink jersey as leader of the general classification at the 2004 and 2006 Giro d'Italia.
In August 2009, an eye problem made him end his cycling career, but a month later it became known that he had failed a drug test. In 2009 he was suspended by the German Cycling Federation.

## Major results
### 1990

    2nd, World Championship, Track, Team Pursuit, Juniors, Middlesbrough

### 1991

    2nd, World Championship, Track, Team Pursuit, Juniors

### 1997 – Agro Adler

    1st, 1 stage — Niedersachsen Rundfahrt
    1st, 1 stage — Clásico RCN

### 1998 – Agro-Adler-Brandenburg

    1st, 2 stages — Tour of Slovenia
    1st, 2 stages — Olympia's Ronde

### 1999 – Agro-Adler-Brandenburg

    1st, 1 stage — Peace Race
    1st, 1 stage — Tour of Chile
    2nd, Rund um Berlin
    2nd, National Championship, Track, Team Pursuit, Elite
    2nd, National Championship, Road, ITT, Elite
    3rd, World Championship, Track, Madison, Elite, Berlin
    3rd, General Classification, Niedersachsen Rundfahrt
       1st, 1 stage

### 2000 – Team Gerolsteiner

    1st, 2 stages — Rapport-Toer
    1st, 1 stage — Tour of Tasmania
    1st, National Championship, Track, Madison, Elite
    2nd, Six Days, Berlin

### 2001 – Team Gerolsteiner

    1st, 2 stages — Niedersachsen Rundfahrt
    1st — Rund um die Nürnberger Altstadt

### 2002 – Team Gerolsteiner

    1st overall — Groningen–Münster
    1st, General Classification — Niedersachsen Rundfahrt
       1st, Stage 2 and Stage 3
    1st, Stages 1, 2, 3 — Peace Race
    1st, Points Classification — Danmark Rundt
       1st, Stage 5
    1st, Groningen-Münster
    1st, Stage 1 — Hessen-Rundfahrt
    2nd, Rund um die Nürnberger Altstadt
    2nd, Paris–Brussels
    3rd, General Classification Driedaagse van West-Vlaanderen
    3rd, Criterium, Bad Salgau

### 2003 – Team Gerolsteiner

    1st, Points Classification — Bayern Rundfahrt
    1st, Stage 5 — Niedersachsen Rundfahrt
    1st, Stage 7 — Deutschland Tour
    2nd, Krefeld–Rund um die Sparkasse
    2nd, General Classification Tour of Qatar
    2nd, Groningen–Münster

### 2004 – Team Gerolsteiner

    1st, Stage 2 — Sachsen-Tour
    1st (after Stage 1), general classification — Giro d'Italia
       112th, General Classification
    2nd, Criterium, Radevormwald

### 2006 – T-Mobile Team

    Giro d'Italia
       3rd, points classification
       132nd, General Classification
    Tour of California
       1st, Stages 6 & 7
       1st, Points Classification (Green jersey)
    1st, Stage 1 Cologne Classic
    1st, Stage 4 Post Danmark Rundt
    2nd, Criterium, Radevormwald

### 2007 – Team Wiesenhof–Felt

    1st, Stage 1, Critérium International
    1st, Rheda–Wiedenbrück
    1st, Dahme Trophy
    2nd, Derny Cup, Griessen
    2nd, National Championship, Track, Pursuit, Elite, Germany, Berlin
    2nd, National Championship, Track, Team Pursuit, Elite, Germany, Berlin
    2nd, National Championship, Track, Madison, Elite, Germany, Berlin
    2nd, Rund um die Nürnberger Altstadt, Nürnberg
    3rd, Six Days, Stuttgart

### 2008

    3rd, World Cup, Track, Madison, Los Angeles