Editing Jan Ullrich (section)

=== 1999 Vuelta a España ===
On the first mountain stage, Ullrich narrowly won against the defending [[Vuelta a España]] champion [[Abraham Olano]] of [[Team ONCE]] in a group sprint that included [[Frank Vandenbroucke (cyclist)|Frank Vandenbroucke]], [[Roberto Heras]] and [[Davide Rebellin]]. Olano took the leader's golden jersey with Ullrich second. Olano won the following stage, a time trial, with almost one minute over Ullrich and increased his lead in stage 8. On stage 11, Ullrich gained 30 seconds back on Olano. Ullrich took the lead on stage 12 won by [[Igor González de Galdeano]], Olano faltered due to a broken rib and finished seven minutes behind Ullrich. He later abandoned the race.

Gonzales de Galdeano had moved into second overall and became a threat to Ullrich. On stage 18 [[Banesto]] and other Spanish teams tried to crack Ullrich, who struggled on the final climb but recovered to limit his losses to González. In the final time trial, Ullrich won by almost three minutes and built his overall lead to four minutes on González. Ullrich won his second major Tour. Several weeks later he became world time trial champion over Sweden's Michael Andersson and Briton [[Chris Boardman]].