Bernd Rohr (cyclist)

Bernd Rohr

To person
Date of birth	November 13, 1937
nation	Germany
discipline	train
height	1.89 meters
Racing weight	83 kilograms
End of career	1966
Societies)
-1965	RRC final spurt Mannheim
Most important successes
UCI track world championships 1962 - team pursuit
Last updated: December 15, 2019

Bernd Rohr (born November 13, 1937 in Mannheim ) is a former German cyclist and world champion in cycling .

Athletic career

In 1957 Bernd Rohr was the first German amateur champion in the team pursuit . He was able to repeat this success twice until 1961. In 1962 he became world champion in this discipline in Milan together with Lothar Claesges , Ehrenfried Rudolph and Klaus May . In addition, from 1961 he became German champion in the team time trial three times in a row . He won all of his team championship titles with his club RRC Endspurt 1924 Mannheim , for which Rudi Altig and his brother Willi Altig had also started in earlier years .

In 1966 Rohr became a professional and as such was German runner-up in the sprint in 1966 and 1967 . In 1966 he was 25th in the Amstel Gold Race . He also started in 14 six-day races . In 1965 he finished sixth with Dieter Kemper in the Berlin six-day race.

Honors

On February 29, 1964, he was awarded the Silver Laurel Leaf for his athletic achievements . He is an honorary member of his club RRC Endspurt Mannheim .

successes

1957

• German amateur champion - team pursuit (with Rudi Altig , Willi Altig and Hans Mangold )

1960

• German amateur champion - team pursuit (with Hans Mangold , Karlheinz Karg and Klaus Hinschütz )

1961

• German amateur champion - team pursuit (with Hans Mangold , Klaus May and Klaus Hinschütz )

1962

• World Champion - Team Pursuit (with Ehrenfried Rudolph , Klaus May and Lothar Claesges )

Street

1961

• German amateur champion - team time trial (with Klaus May and Rüdiger Meindl )

1962

• German amateur champion - team time trial (with Rüdiger Meindl , Hans Mangold and Horst Ruster )

1963

• German amateur champion - team time trial (with Rüdiger Meindl , Hans Mangold and Klaus May )

Web links

• Bernd Rohr in the Radsportseiten.net database
• Bernd Rohr (cyclist) in the ProCyclingStats.com database

Individual evidence

1. ^ Association of German cyclists (ed.): Radsport . No. 23/1980 . German sports publisher Kurt Stoof, Cologne, p. 18 .
2. ↑ Bernd Rohr - Successes in six-day races. In: kultur-buch.de. Accessed December 31, 2018 . 
3. ↑ Sports report of the federal government of September 29, 1973 to the Bundestag - printed matter 7/1040 - page 69
4. ↑ The board of the RRC Endspurt 1924 Mannheim eV In: rrc-endspurt-mannheim1.jimdo.com. March 4, 2017, accessed December 31, 2018 .