Michael Rich (born 23 September 1969) is a German former professional road bicycle racer who won the gold medal for his native country in the men's team time trial (100 km) at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. His winning teammates were Christian Meyer, Bernd Dittert and Uwe Peschel.
Rich is most famous for his individual time trial participations in the Grand Tours (Tour de France, Giro d'Italia and Vuelta a España). He is the father of two children.
Rich retired from racing in 2006. His profession was a mechanic.
Major results
1989
8th Overall Peace Race
1990
3rd Chrono des Herbiers
1991
4th Chrono des Herbiers
1994
1st Stage 4a (ITT) Regio-Tour
1st Stage 2 Peace Race
3rd Time trial, National Road Championships
UCI Road World Championships
3rd Team time trial
10th Time trial
1996
2nd Overall Bayern Rundfahrt
3rd Time trial, National Road Championships
10th Time trial, Olympic Games
1997
4th HEW Cyclassics
1998
7th HEW Cyclassics
7th Coppa Bernocchi
1999
2nd Overall Regio-Tour
1st Stage 3b (ITT) 6th Overall Tour Trans Canada 1st Stage 10 (ITT) 6th Grand Prix des Nations 9th Veenendaal–Veenendaal 2000 1st Time trial, National Road Championships 1st Overall Tour de la Somme 1st Stage 1 1st EnBW Grand Prix (with Torsten Schmidt) 2nd Overall Bayern Rundfahrt 1st Stage 1b 2nd Time trial, UCI Road World Championships 4th Grand Prix des Nations 7th Overall Circuit Franco-Belge 2001 1st Stage 1a (ITT) Niedersachsen-Rundfahrt 4th Grand Prix Eddy Merckx (with Uwe Peschel) 6th EnBW Grand Prix (with Uwe Peschel) 10th Overall Circuit de la Sarthe 2002 1st Overall Bayern-Rundfahrt 1st Stage 2 (ITT) 1st Chrono des Herbiers 1st Karlsruher Versicherungs Grand-Prix (with Uwe Peschel) 1st Stage 4 (ITT) Deutschland Tour 1st Stage 4 (ITT) Tour du Poitou-Charentes et de la Vienne 1st Stage 4b (ITT) Niedersachsen-Rundfahrt 2nd Time trial, UCI Road World Championships 2nd Time trial, National Road Championships 2nd Grand Prix Eddy Merckx (with Uwe Peschel) 4th Grand Prix des Nations 2003 1st Time trial, National Road Championships 1st Overall Bayern-Rundfahrt 1st Stage 2 (ITT) 1st Chrono des Herbiers 1st Grand Prix des Nations 1st Grand Prix Eddy Merckx (with Uwe Peschel) 1st Karlsruher Versicherungs Grand-Prix (with Sebastian Lang) 3rd Time trial, UCI Road World Championships 4th Niedersachsen-Rundfahrt 1st Stage 1a (ITT) 2004 1st Time trial, National Road Championships 1st Grand Prix des Nations 1st Stage 1 (ITT) Deutschland Tour 1st Stage 4 (ITT) Hessen-Rundfahrt 2nd Time trial, UCI Road World Championships 2nd LuK Challenge Chrono (with Uwe Peschel) 3rd Grand Prix Eddy Merckx (with Uwe Peschel) 4th Time trial, Olympic Games 8th Overall Sachsen Tour 9th Overall Bayern Rundfahrt 1st Stage 3 (ITT) 2005 1st Time trial, National Road Championships 1st Overall Bayern-Rundfahrt 1st Stage 2 (ITT) Ster Elektrotour 2nd Overall Rheinland-Pfalz Rundfahrt 2nd LuK Challenge Chrono (with Markus Fothen) 2006 2nd Time trial, National Road Championships
