Jens Heppner

Jens Heppner, born on 23 December 1964, is a German former road bicycle racer. He rode for the Telekom team for ten years and is best remembered for wearing the pink jersey as leader of the general classification during the 2002 Giro d'Italia. He won the German National Road Race championship in 1994. His name was on the list of doping tests published by the French Senate on 24 July 2013, samples collected during the 1998 Tour de France that were found positive for EPO when retested in 2004, although he has consistently denied ever having doped during his career. After his racing career he worked in his own company in Hergenrath, Germany.