Andreas Kappes

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Andreas Kappes Road cycling
Andreas Kappes (l.) With Etienne De Wilde in the Cologne bicycle stadium (approx. 1999)
Andreas Kappes (l.) With Etienne De Wilde in the Cologne bicycle stadium (approx. 1999)
To person
Date of birth December 23, 1965
date of death July 31, 2018
nation GermanyGermany Germany
discipline Road, rail
End of career 2001
Societies)
-1986 PSV Cologne
Team (s)
1987–1990
1991
1992
1993
1994
1995–1996
1997
1998
1999–2001
Toshiba
Histor-Sigmna
Telekom
Mecair-Ballan
Trident-Schick
Refin
Mediapark Cologne-Airport Cologne-Bonn
Gerolsteiner
Agro-Adler Brandenburg
Most important successes

Omloop Het Volk 1991
a stage Giro d'Italia 1988

Last updated: October 12, 2019

Andreas Kappes (born December 23, 1965 in Bremen ; † July 31, 2018 ) was a German racing cyclist , son of the former "Berlin cycling legend" Werner Kappes .

biography

Andreas Kappes was a son of the Berlin cyclist Werner Kappes. The juniors already showed where his real strength lay: on the track. In 1983 he won the German championship title in two-man team driving and the world championship title in points competition. As an amateur he started for the club RRG Bremen .

After taking part in his first six-day race in 1987 in Bremen, Kappes took part in a total of 115 six-day races, but was also always successful as a road driver. According to his own admission, Kappes owes this first start as a professional driver (at the side of Rene Pijnen ) to Patrick Sercu , who absolutely wanted to see him at the start and trusted him to have a successful career in the six-day races. In addition to 24 victories in “Six Days”, he was able to win 94 road races and two stage journeys in Germany, the USA, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Austria, Belgium, France, Italy and Spain. His greatest successes on the road in 1991 included victories at the classic Omloop Het Volk , the Kudamm-City Night in Berlin and a stage win at the Giro d'Italia in 1988 and the French Tour de l'Oise in 1989. Kappes won his victories regularly in the sprint.

In his first year as a professional driver he was appointed to the German national team and was able to fight for 17th place in the world championship road race. A year later, in 1988, he was 50th, 24th in 1989 and eighth in 1990. In 1993 he was also able to place himself among the world's best in 13th place, while in 1994 he landed in 46th place in the midfield. He was much more successful at the World Railroad Championships, where he was able to win three bronze and one silver medal in two-man team and points race from 1996 to 1999.

In 1997 he was banned for six months after a positive doping test .

At the 1999 World Championships , he and Olaf Pollack won bronze in a two-man team .

After a doping test during the German track championship in July 2000, Kappes was again briefly suspected of having doped because of an increased nandrolone level . In December 2000, the sports court of the Federation of German Cyclists acquitted him of the allegations. The nandrolone content in the blood could be traced back to permitted food supplements .

After the winter season 2007/08, Andreas Kappes ended his active career. He lived in Cologne. From 2010 he advised young cyclists in training camps and in cycling races. Most recently, he was the sports director of the Tour de Neuss and employed in a horticultural business.

Andreas Kappes died on the night of July 30th to 31st, 2018 at the age of 52 of heart failure caused by an allergic reaction to an insect bite . He was buried on August 11, 2018 in the New Cemetery in Cologne-Weiden .

successes

train

Street

Web links

Commons : Andreas Kappes  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Olaf Ulbrich: Cycling: End of career is still a problem for Kappes. In: NWZ Online . January 7, 2014, accessed July 31, 2018 .
  2. Racing: So that young talents become elite drivers. In: rrg-bremen.de. Retrieved February 19, 2020 .
  3. ^ Thorsten Schmidt: 50 years of the 6-day race in Bremen . Kultur Buch Bremen, Bremen 2013, ISBN 978-3-933851-16-1 , p. o. p .
  4. Monday 11.12.2000, 6:32 p.m.: professional cyclist Andreas Kappes acquitted. December 11, 2000, accessed on July 21, 2020 (German).
  5. No doping: Andreas Kappes acquitted. In: radsport-news.com. December 11, 2000, archived from the original on September 26, 2007 ; accessed on July 31, 2018 .
  6. Volker Koch: Former professional cyclist Andreas Kappes from Neuss is dead. In: RP Online . July 31, 2018, accessed July 31, 2018 .
  7. ^ Obituaries for Andreas Kappes. In: wirtrauern.de. August 8, 2018, accessed August 9, 2018 .