Horst Oldenburg

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Horst Oldenburg (1957)
In 1957 Oldenburg (left) was GDR youth champion in the individual time trial .

Horst Oldenburg (born October 17, 1939 in Daber , today Dobra ) is a former German cyclist .

Horst Oldenburg began his cycling career as a youth at SC Einheit Berlin and won the GDR youth championship in the individual time trial in 1957 (see picture below right). He moved to the men's class the following year, where he was nominated for the GDR national team in 1959 and was able to achieve fourth place in the overall ranking of the Tour of Poland. In 1960 he won three stages of the Tour of Egypt and took fifth place overall. In the same year he was appointed as a substitute for the GDR World Cup national team at the Sachsenring .

After fleeing to West Berlin, Oldenburg made his professional debut in October 1960 at the Berlin six-day race alongside the veteran Lucien Gillen ; the duo reached eighth place. He first drew attention to himself in 1961 when he won four stages in a sprint at the International Afri-Cola Tour of Germany . In 1962 he was third in the German championship in road racing and finished second in the overall ranking of the Tour de l'Oise . Oldenburg entered the Tour de France twice, in 1961 and 1967 , but gave up both times. In 1963 he was again third in the German Road Championship, in 1964 and 1965 he won the Around Cologne and 1966 the North-West Swiss Tour . In the following years he shifted his focus to track cycling .

In 1965 Oldenburg was German champion in two-man team driving with Hennes Junkermann . In 1968 he became European champion in this discipline with Dieter Kemper .

He competed in road world championships from 1961 to 1966 and was able to achieve ninth place as the best place in 1962. In 1963 he crossed the finish line in 30th place and in 1964 in 12th place.

Horst Oldenburg started in 100 six-day races, of which he won ten, seven of them with Kemper, two with Leandro Faggin and one with Wolfgang Schulze . He was active as a professional racing driver until 1973 .

Oldenburg now lives in California and runs a roofing workshop there. He is the younger brother of Günter Oldenburg , who was also active as a racing cyclist in the GDR and after moving to the West.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Association of German cyclists (ed.): Radsport . No. 23/1966 . Deutscher Sportverlag Kurt Stoof, Cologne 1966, p. 5 .
  2. ↑ European championship titles from the time before the establishment of the Union Européenne de Cyclisme in 1995 are considered unofficial, as these competitions were invitation races in which non-Europeans also took part.

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SURNAME Oldenburg, Horst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German racing cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH October 17, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH But