August Prosenik

August Prosenik
To person
Date of birth	August 26, 1916
date of death	July 22, 1975
nation	Yugoslavia ( Kingdom and SBRJ )

August Prosenik , also Augustin Prosenik , (born August 26, 1916 in Obrežje , Krain , Austria-Hungary , † July 22, 1975 in Zagreb , Yugoslavia ) was a Yugoslav cyclist. He started for the national teams of the Kingdom and the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia and took part in the Summer Olympics twice.

The trained mechanic started his career for the clubs Sokol, Građanski and Dinamo Zagreb . His greatest success was the 12th place in the individual road race of the Summer Olympics in 1936 and participation in the team race, in which his team could not place itself among the top five teams. He also won the Yugoslav Championship and other races eight times.

After the Second World War , in which he participated as a partisan , he continued his career. In addition to winning regional races, he was also known for winning the International Peace Drive in 1948 . He returned to the peace trip in 1956 as coach of the Yugoslav team. During his participation in 1948 he kept a diary about the race and held a. a. found that all drivers received a daily ration of 100 grams of meat and that the Yugoslav drivers were busy mending their tires for a long time in the evening after the stages. At the Summer Olympics in 1948 Prosenik started again in the individual and team races, but he did not reach the goal in either race.

Palmarès

year	success	run
1936	12.	Olympic Games Berlin / 100 km in individual
1936	Placement not determined	Olympic Games Berlin / 100 km as a team
1936	winner	Yugoslav Championship
1937	winner	Yugoslav Championship
1937	winner	Belgrade-Sofia race
1938	winner	Race Sofia-Belgrade
1939	2.	Yugoslav Championship
1939	winner	Serbia tour
1940	winner	Yugoslav Championship
1946	winner	Romania tour
1947	winner	Race Belgrade-Budapest
1948	3.	1st stage of the Peace Tour
	winner	2nd stage peace journey
	3.	3rd stage peace journey
	winner	Overall evaluation of the peace drive
	eliminated	Olympic Games London / 194.6 km individual
	eliminated	Olympic Games London / 194.6 km as a team

Web links

August Prosenik in the Radsportseiten.net database

August Prosenik in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

^ Presidium of the Cycling Section of the GDR (Ed.): Cycling Week . No. 18/1956 . Berlin, S. 3 .
↑ Horst Schubert (Ed.): Friedensfahrt . Sportverlag, Berlin 1962, p. 27-32 .

personal data
SURNAME	Prosenik, August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Yugoslav cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH	August 26, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH	Obrežje , Carniola , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH	July 22, 1975
Place of death	Zagreb , Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia

[1] Presidium of the Cycling Section of the GDR (Ed.): Cycling Week . No. 18/1956 . Berlin, S. 3 .

[2] Horst Schubert (Ed.): Friedensfahrt . Sportverlag, Berlin 1962, p. 27-32 .