Axel Peschel

Axel Peschel (right, together with Siegfried Huster )

Axel Peschel, Kurt Müller, Lothar Appler and Eberhard Butzke (from left) 1966

Axel Peschel (r.) 1965 in a race in Karl-Marx-Stadt

Axel Hermann Peschel (born August 2, 1942 in Maasdorf ( Elbe-Elster district , today Brandenburg )) is a former German racing cyclist .

Athletic career

Axel Hermann Peschel was born on August 2, 1942, to Otto and Else Peschel. In 1968 he married Petra Stahn. From this marriage he has two children, Uwe and Claudia. He began his sporting career in 1958 with activist Plessa ( Bad Liebenwerda ), was a sports soldier with Dynamo Dresden Nord from 1961-63 and from June 1963 an amateur with SC Dynamo Berlin .

From 1965 to 1971 he took part in the International Peace Race six times and won it in 1968, as well as four times at the UCI World Championships in road races from 1966 to 1970. He won GDR championship jerseys in the mountain time trial , 100 km team time trial , individual road trial and in the criterion race . He finished the GDR tour in 1965 and 1967 as the overall winner. In 1969 he won "Rund um Sebnitz" and 1970 "Berlin-Angermünde-Berlin" and in 1971 he was second in the GDR road championship and seventh in the overall ranking of the GDR tour.

Professional

He trained as an electrician. After the end of his active career in 1971, he made up the Abitur at the evening school (1972-74), in order to then complete a distance learning course at the DHfK Leipzig (qualified sports teacher, 1975-1980). From 1972 to 1975 he was the technical director of the cycling section and from 1975 to 1991 as a trainer at SC Dynamo Berlin . After the reunification he trained as a sports manager (1992–1993) and worked from 1993 to 2005 as a social worker for youth work at the Berlin State Sports Association . Today Axel Peschel lives in Berlin-Weißensee .

family

His son Uwe Peschel was also a cyclist, GDR time trial champion and became Olympic champion with the street four in 1992 .

Honors

In 1968, Axel Peschel was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit in silver for winning the Peace Tour.

Athletic performance

• 1963 First International Tour (Tour of Hungary)
• 1964 Olympic elimination BRD-GDR in Gießen and Erfurt
• 1965 First participation in the Peace Tour (6th place)
• 1965 GDR tour (1st place)
• 1966 Friedensfahrt (3rd place, jersey "Most Active Driver"), GDR championship with SC Dynamo Berlin 100 km team time trial
• 1967 GDR tour (1st place)
• 1968 Grand Prix d`Annaba in Algeria (1st place)
• 1968 Peace Tour (1st place)
• 1969 Peace Tour (9th place)
• 1969 Week of International Cycling in the GDR (1st place)
• 1970 GDR championship (mountain time trial, criterion race), peace ride (30th place, stage winner)
• 1970 Overall winner of the Tour d'Algérie and Grand Prix de l'Humanité in Paris
• 1971 GDR runner-up in single road driving, last time peace drive (exit after falling)

literature

• Der Radsportler , published by the German Cycling Association of the GDR, Berlin 1966, No. 15, p. 7

Web links

Commons : Axel Peschel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Axel Peschel in the Radsportseiten.net database
• Axel Peschel in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ^ German Cycling Association of the GDR (ed.): The cyclist . No. 6/1966 . Berlin 1966, p. 6 .
2. ^ German Cycling Association of the GDR (ed.): The cyclist . No. 15/1966 . Berlin 1966, p. 7 .
3. ↑ Neues Deutschland , August 30, 1968, p. 4