Jens Heppner

{{Short description|German cyclist (born 1964)}}

{{expand German|topic=bio|date=December 2021|Jens Heppner}}

{{Infobox cyclist

| name = Jens Heppner

| image = Jens Heppner-2006.jpg

| caption = Heppner in 2006

| full_name = Jens Heppner

| nickname = Heppe

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1964|12|23|df=y}}

| birth_place = Gera, East Germany

| height = 1.72 m

| weight = {{convert|69|kg|lb stlb|0|abbr=on}}

| currentteam = Retired

| discipline = Road

| role = Rider
Manager

| ridertype =

| proyears1 = 1991

| proteam1 = {{UCI team code|PSC|1991}}

| proyears2 = 1992–2002

| proteam2 = {{UCI team code|TEL|1995}}

| proyears3 = 2003–2005

| proteam3 = {{UCI team code|WIE|2003}}

| manageyears1 = 2006–2007

| manageteam1 = {{UCI team code|WIE|2006}}

| manageyears2 = 2011–2013

| manageteam2 = {{UCI team code|TNE|2011}}

| majorwins = German National Road Race Championship (1994)
Deutschland Tour (1999)
Tour de France, 1 stage

}}

Jens Heppner (born 23 December 1964) is a German former road bicycle racer. He wore the pink jersey as leader of the general classification during the 2002 Giro d'Italia. Although he rode for Telekom during ten years, he has consistently denied ever having doped.[http://autobus.cyclingnews.com/news.php?id=news/2007/aug07/aug15news2 Heppner giving up hope]

His name was on the list of doping tests published by the French Senate on 24 July 2013 that were collected during the 1998 Tour de France and found positive for EPO when retested in 2004.{{cite web|url=http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/french-senate-releases-positive-epo-cases-from-1998-tour-de-france|title=French Senate releases positive EPO cases from 1998 Tour de France}} He won the German National Road Race in 1994.{{cite web |url=http://www.cyclingarchives.com/wedstrijdfiche.php?wedstrijdid=334 |title=National Championship, Road, Elite, Germany |access-date=13 September 2014 |work=Cycling Archives}}   After his career, he worked in his own company in Hergenrath (Germany).{{Cite book|title=Die Welt hat Pedale und Freunde, die sie treten|last=Kraus|first=Rainer|publisher=Delius Klasing|year=2016|isbn=978-3-667-10706-0|location=Bielefeld|pages=136|language=de}}