Dieter Flögel

Dieter Flögel (born September 25, 1953 in Hafenlohr ) is a former German cyclist and national cycling champion .

Athletic career

Flögel started for the RSG Franken Katzwang association in 1975 ( RSG Hercules Nuremberg from 1980 ). At the German championships in team time trial in 1975 he had his first success with winning the bronze medal with his club. In this discipline he also celebrated his first championship honors by winning the national title in 1979 and 1980. However, the team from 1980 was stripped of the title because of a positive doping test and the title remained vacant. Further medals in this discipline were added: silver in 1982 and 1983, bronze in 1978. His most important success was winning the German championship in road racing in 1983 . He made his debut in the national team in 1976 with the start of the Tour of Poland . After that he was often used for the Bund Deutscher Radfahrer (BDR) in state tours until 1984 . His seventh place in the Tour of Austria in 1978 stood out. He was also part of the BDR squad for the 1977 International Peace Tour , which he finished in 68th place. That year he also started in the individual race at the UCI Road World Championships for amateurs, but retired. He did better in 1981 when he finished an excellent fifth. Flögel was also able to convince in one-day races. He won around Essen in 1976, around Frankfurt a year later and many other races. At the end of 1984 he ended his career as a road driver. Later he tried again as a stayer and was able to reach the final of the German championship in 1987. Flögel was one of the Nuremberg "rebels". When he, Friedrich von Loeffelholz and Dieter Burkhardt , as members of the RSG Hercules, refused to drive the Peugeot machines required by the association instead of their own bikes , they were suspended from preparing for the Olympics and from the national team and have since been considered "the rebels" .

Web links

• Dieter Flögel in the Radsportseiten.net database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Maik Märtin: 50 years of Course de la Paix . Agency Construct, Leipzig 1998, p. 236 .
2. ↑ Rene Jacobs et al. a. (Ed.): Velo . Dendermonde 1978, p. 144 .
3. ↑ ^{a b} Burkhardt cycling. Retrieved September 15, 2019 . 
4. ^ Association of German cyclists (ed.): Radsport . No. 45-46 / 1980 . German sports publisher Kurt Stoof, Cologne 1980.