Karl-Heinz Henrichs

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Karl-Heinz Henrichs Road cycling
To person
Date of birth July 1, 1942
date of death April 3, 2008
nation GermanyGermany Germany
discipline Road , rail
height 1.84 meters
Racing weight 83 kilograms
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RV cycling friends Bocholt
Most important successes

Olympic champion team pursuit

Last updated: October 11, 2019

Karl-Heinz Henrichs (born July 1, 1942 in Schermbeck ; † April 3, 2008 in Bocholt ) was a German racing cyclist .

Karl-Heinz Henrichs achieved his greatest successes as a member of coach Gustav Kilian's gold four in the team pursuit . At the rail world championships in 1963 the four-man (with Lothar Claesges , Karl Link and Ernst Streng ) became vice world champion, and the following year, with an identical line-up, Olympic champion in Tokyo .

For this he and the gold foursome received the silver laurel leaf on December 11, 1964.

In 1966 the German team finished second in the World Cup, in 1967 the four-man came third. At the Olympic Games in 1968, the German foursome won the silver medal; the German team (with Henrichs, Udo Hempel , Link, Jürgen Kißner and Rainer Podlesch ), which was on the gold course in the final, was disqualified due to a controversial decision. Henrichs was also German champion in the team pursuit in 1965, 1966 and 1967 with RV Radlerfreunde Bocholt. He had previously won the German Omnium Championship in 1964 and 1965.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sports report of the federal government of September 29, 1973 to the Bundestag - printed matter 7/1040 - page 69
  2. ↑ Renate Franz : "The greatest fraud of all time" - How the four-man lost gold at the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico. In: Cycling4Fans. April 17, 2015, accessed April 18, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Henrichs, Karl-Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German racing cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH July 1, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Schermbeck
DATE OF DEATH April 3, 2008
Place of death Bocholt