Benno Funda

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Benno Funda 1955

Benno Funda (born January 1, 1934 in Zossen ) is a former German cyclist. He was a member of the GDR national team in the 1950s .

Athletic career

Benno Funda is the son of the six-day driver Willy Funda , who was successful in the 1930s and who also looked after him as a trainer at times. His son Benno started out cycling with the Mittenwalde sports community , but in 1951 he joined the company sports community (BSG) Motor in Wildau . In the same year he was GDR youth champion in the 4000 m individual time trial on the track . In 1952, he moved up to the men's division and switched to road driving and won the junior category of the one-day race around the Hainleite and the Grand Diamond Prize in Chemnitz . For professional reasons, Funda moved to BSG Berliner Bär in 1953 and started there with a third place in the GDR championship in two-person team track driving together with his partner Hans Wagner . From 1954 he concentrated again on road racing and was able to qualify for the three-country stage trip Internationale Friedensfahrt . As the second best GDR driver behind Gustav-Adolf Schur (22nd), he finished in the individual ranking 30. Also in 1954, he won the GDR championship in the 100 km team time trial with the BSG Berliner Bär . In 1955 Funda was taken over by the newly founded SC Einheit Berlin and again won the championship in the 100 km team time trial for the sports club. That year he was again part of the GDR squad for the peace trip and went down in their history because he was the first GDR driver to win a stage in East Berlin . Overall, however, he could not convince and ended up as the worst GDR active on rank 36. In the subsequent GDR tour , Funda took tenth place, but won the team classification with the SC unit. In 1959 he suffered a serious accident in which he lost an eye, which forced him to give up competitive sport.

Others

Funda had completed an apprenticeship as a chimney sweep after leaving school . After his sports career, he initially practiced this profession in Baruth and Zossen. In 1966 he was the district chimney sweep master in Brieselang until his retirement . In 1958 Funda married the Erfurt top athlete in cycling polo Brunhilde Schlöffel.

literature

  • GDR sports newspaper Deutsches Sportecho : Issue from April 25, 1955 with a short biography

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Presidium of the Cycling Section of the GDR (Ed.): Cycling Week . No. 52/1957 . Berlin 1957, p. 10 .
personal data
SURNAME Funda, Benno
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH January 1, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Zossen