Jörg Jaksche

Jörg Jaksche
	Jaksche at the 1999 Paris–Tours
Personal information
Full name	Jörg Armin Jaksche
Born	23 July 1976 (age 48); Fürth, Germany
Height	1.84 m (6 ft 0 in)
Weight	69 kg (152 lb)
Team information
Current team	Retired
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Rider type	Climber
Professional teams
1997–1998	Team Polti
1999–2000	Team Telekom
2001–2003	ONCE–Eroski
2004	Team CSC
2005–2006	Liberty Seguros–Würth
2007	Tinkoff Credit Systems
Major wins
	Paris–Nice (2004)

Jörg Armin Jaksche^[1] (born 23 July 1976 in Fürth) is a German former road bicycle racer. In 2007 Jaksche admitted he was guilty of blood doping.

Biography

Jaksche has been cycling professionally since 1997, racing for the teams Polti (1997–1998), Team Telekom (1998–2000), ONCE (2001–2003), CSC (2004), Liberty Seguros–Würth/Astana (2005–2006) and Tinkoff Credit Systems in 2007.

In 2004, he won the Tour Mediterranean and the Paris–Nice race.

In the 2005 Tour de France, Jaksche finished 16th overall, the best result of his six participations in the Tour. He had been 18th at the 1998 Tour de France and 17th at the 2003 Tour de France.

At the 2006 Tour de Suisse, Jaksche finished on the podium with a third-place finish.

Jaksche is now living in Sydney, Australia studying a Master of International Business at the University of New South Wales.

Doping

Jaksche was one of the nine riders held out of the 2006 Tour de France after being identified by investigators in the Operación Puerto investigation. On 30 June 2007 Jaksche admitted he was guilty of blood doping and that he was the Bella mentioned in the documents confiscated from Fuentes' clinic.^[2]