1. Georg Totschnig was born on 25 May 1971 and is an Austrian former road bicycle racer who raced professionally between 1993 and 2006.
12 Facts About Georg Totschnig
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Georg Totschnig won the Austrian National Road Race Championships in 1997 and 2003.
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In 1989, Totschnig became the Junior Austrian National Time Trial Champion.
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Georg Totschnig finished 5th in the 1994 edition of the Tour DuPont and a few weeks later entered his first Grand Tour, which was the 1994 Giro where he finished 13th overall helped by a top 10 on the final ITT.
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Georg Totschnig finished 37th in his first Tour entry and was 4th in the Young Rider Classification.
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Georg Totschnig finished 34th overall, good enough for fourth place on the very strong Team Telekom which included Green jersey winner Erik Zabel.
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Georg Totschnig rode well in the scandalous 1998 Tour de France, in 4th place on a very strong team as Ullrich fell just short of repeating with Marco Pantani finding a way to drop him in the mountains.
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Georg Totschnig joined his final team, Gerolsteiner, in 2001 and while he missed all the Grand Tours that year, he had top 10's in both the Deutschland Tour as well as the Tour of Switzerland.
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Georg Totschnig followed this up with the Tour of Switzerland where he finished 5th.
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Georg Totschnig was the first Austrian to win a stage in the Tour de France since Max Bulla in 1931.
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Georg Totschnig was voted Austrian Sportsman of the year in 2005.
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Georg Totschnig was surprised to win the accolade, as he had not expected to win more votes than the skier Benjamin Raich.