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Biography
Jesper Worre, (born 5 June 1959) is a former Danish professional bicycle racer, who is employed as director of the Danmarks Cykle Union (DCU) by the board of directors.
Biography
Worre competed in the team time trial event at the 1980 Summer Olympics.
He was a professional between 1982 and 1992 and took part in the 1989 Tour de France, finishing 88th in the general classification.
Worre has once been tested positive for amineptine in 1992, he confessed to the use of doping, receiving a conditional suspension. Amineptine is a mild but pleasant stimulant and a fast-acting mood-brightener. Amineptine had been on the doping list for a couple of months before Worres confession of using amineptine, and was removed again from the list of banned performance-enhancing drugs shortly after.
Worre is now particularly known for his strong and uncompromising struggle against the use of doping in professional cycling, in both media and in the Danish cycling federation (DCU).
Doping
- 1992: Jesper Worre found guilty of the abuse of amineptine during competition.
Road honours
- 1977
Junior road Champion of Denmark
- 1980
- Champion of Denmark in amateur teams- mountains
- 1983
- Giro del Veneto
- third in the GP Industria & Artigianato di Larciano
- 1984
- Stage 1, Tirreno–Adriatico
- 1985
- Prologue of the Danmark Rundt
- second in the GP Industria & Artigianato di Larciano
- 1986
- Danmark Rundt
- third in the Grand Prix Eddy Merckx
- 1987
- second in the Gran Premio Città di Camaiore
- 1988
- Stages 3 and 7, Tour of Sweden
- Tour of Sweden
- Tour of the Americas
- 1990
- Stage 6, Vuelta a España
- 1991
- Stage 11, Vuelta a la Argentina
Track honours
World championships
- Colorado Springs 1986
Individual pursuit
- Vienna 1987
Individual pursuit
- Gand 1988
- Individual pursuit