Bob Roll - Cycling Achievements

Cycling Achievements

  • 3-time Tour de France racer - 63rd (1986), DNF due to a crash (1987), 132nd (1990). In addition, Roll was supposed to start the 1988 Tour de France but dropped out the day before the race began due to illness.
  • 3-time Giro d'Italia racer, including 1988 when he was a domestique for winner Andrew Hampsten. During the stage through the snow-covered Gavia Pass, Hampsten took 2nd and the leader's Maglia rosa, and Roll had to ride up the hill to deliver Hampsten's warm clothes. He finished 61st. He finished 78th in 1985 and 114th in 1989.
  • 7-time Paris–Roubaix racer - 55th (1986), 48th (1987), 25th (1988), 37th (1989), 61st (1990), and two DNFs
  • 2-time Liège–Bastogne–Liège racer - 17th (1987), and 54th (1990)
  • 3-time Tour de Suisse racer - 56th (1987) - as a domestique for overall winner Andrew Hampsten, 48th (1990)
  • 2-time Dauphiné Libéré racer - 1990, 97th (1991) - where in an odd twist he wore the number ending in 1 signifying he was Motorola's "team leader" for the event
  • 2-time Amstel Gold Race participant - 64th (1988), 120th (1991)
  • Tour of Luxembourg racer - 40th (1987)
  • Won stage 3 of the 1988 Tour de Romandie
  • Won stage 11 (Vail criterium) of the 1985 Coors Classic
  • Won the 1997 & 1998 San Francisco Hill Climb
  • Raced in eight World Championships (in both road racing and mountain biking)

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