Georg Totschnig

Georg Totschnig is an Austrian former road bicycle racer, born on 25 May 1971, who raced professionally from 1993 to 2006 and rode at three Olympic Games. He won the Austrian national road race title in 1997 and 2003. After starting with the Italian Lampre-Polti team he finished in the top ten of the Giro d'Italia more than once, including fifth overall in 2003, and placed sixth in the 1996 Vuelta a Espana. Riding for Gerolsteiner from 2001, he led the team at the 2004 Tour de France and finished seventh. His career highlight came on stage 14 of the 2005 Tour de France, when he broke clear of a breakaway group and held off the general classification favourites, including Lance Armstrong, to win by 56 seconds, the only Grand Tour stage victory of his career and the first Tour stage win by an Austrian since Max Bulla in 1931. He was voted Austrian Sportsman of the year in 2005, and his younger brother Harald Totschnig is also a professional cyclist.