Bernd Dittert

Bernd Dittert

Bernd Dittert (1988)
To person
Date of birth	February 6, 1961
nation	German Democratic Republic of Germany
discipline	Railway (endurance) / road
height	1.86 meters
Racing weight	78 kilograms
Most important successes
Olympic games 1992 - team time trial 1988 - one's pursuit UCI track world championships 1981 - Team Pursuit (Amateurs)
Last updated: June 5, 2017

Bernd Dittert (born February 6, 1961 in Genthin ) is a former German road and track cyclist and trainer. As an athlete he started for the GDR and from 1990 for Germany. In 1992 he became Olympic champion in the team time trial .

Athletic career

In 1979 he won the GDR championships in the single pursuit in his age group and thus his first national title. Bernd Dittert was a member of SC Dynamo Berlin in the GDR . In 1981 he became world champion in the amateur team pursuit together with Detlef Macha , Axel Grosser and Volker Winkler . In the following years he was five times GDR champion in the single pursuit . In 1986 he won silver in the team pursuit at the World Railroad Championships with Roland Hennig , Dirk Meier and Steffen Blochwitz . In the same year he won the Dutch Olympia’s Tour . In 1988 he won bronze in the singles pursuit at the Olympic Games in Seoul .

From 1992 Dittert started for the Hannoverscher Radsport-Club von 1912 . In 1992 he became Olympic champion in the team time trial together with Christian Meyer , Uwe Peschel , Michael Rich and Guido Fulst . He then ended his active cycling career.

Professional

Dittert completed an apprenticeship as an electrical mechanic. From 2000 to 2006 Dittert was the German national trainer in track cycling (endurance men) and from 2006 to 2011 national road cycling trainer in the U23 class. Under his aegis, the German riders Robert Bartko , Guido Fulst , Daniel Becke and Jens Lehmann won the gold medal at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney , undercutting four minutes for the first time in cycling history and thus setting a new world record. Dittert had only been appointed to the post shortly after the accidental death of national coach Robert Lange . A few weeks after the games, the German quartet became world champions at the Dittert track world championships in Manchester .

At the UCI track world championships in 2003 there was a scandal when Dittert did not nominate the Leipzig Jens Lehmann for the team pursuit, whereupon the remaining drivers refused to start. In 2007 there were allegations against Dittert that he had doped in 1987/88, but the Association of German Cyclists stuck to him as a national coach.

Since 2015 Dittert has been running a physiotherapy practice in Peguera on Mallorca together with the former cyclist Anke Wichmann .

Success as an athlete

train

1981

• World Champion - Team Pursuit (with Detlef Macha , Axel Grosser and Volker Winkler )
• GDR champions - team pursuit (with Gerald Buder , Gunter Buder and Ottmar Trittel )

1982

• GDR master - individual pursuit

1983

• GDR master - individual pursuit

1986

• World Championship - Team Pursuit (Amateurs) (with Roland Hennig , Dirk Meier and Steffen Blochwitz )
• GDR master - individual pursuit

1987

• GDR master - individual pursuit

1988

• Olympic Games - One's Pursuit
• GDR master - individual pursuit

Street

1984

• Prologue and team time trial Lower Saxony tour

1986

• Overall ranking and one stage of the Olympia's Tour
• two stages tour of Lower Saxony

1987

• a stage Olympia's Tour
• one stage tour of Poland

1990

• German champion - team time trial (amateurs) (with Wolfgang Lötzsch and Mario Hernig )

1991

• World Championship - Team Time Trials (Amateurs) (with Uwe Berndt , Uwe Peschel and Michael Rich )

1992

• Olympic Champion - Team Time Trial (with Christian Meyer , Uwe Peschel , Michael Rich and Guido Fulst )

Success as a trainer

• 2000 World Champion in the 4,000-meter team pursuit
• 2000 Olympic champion in the 4,000 meter team pursuit

Awards (selection)

• 1984 - Patriotic Order of Merit in Gold
• 1986 - Silver Star of Friendship of Nations
• 1988 - Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze
• June 23, 1993 - Silver bay leaf

Web links

Commons : Bernd Dittert  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Bernd Dittert in the Radsportseiten.net database
• Bernd Dittert in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ^ German Cycling Association of the GDR (ed.): The cyclist . No. 29/1979 . Berlin 1979, p. 1 .
2. ^ Edda Rogge, Reinhard Kramer , Thomas Munz: Hannoverscher Radsport Club von 1912 eV A foray through 100 years of club history , Hannover: Eigenverlag, 2012, p. 51; online on the club website
3. ^ German Cycling Association of the GDR (ed.): The cyclist . No. 36/1988 . Berlin 1988, p. 2 .
4. ↑ Bernd Dittert is acting U23 coach. In: rad-net.de. June 6, 2007, accessed June 5, 2017 . 
5. ↑ The sad quartet. In: tagesspiegel.de . August 9, 2003, accessed June 5, 2017 . 
6. ↑ BDR Presidium sticks to trainer Bernd Dittert. In: rad-net.de. August 29, 2007. Retrieved June 5, 2017 . 
7. ↑ Osteopathy plus physiotherapy - Anke Wichmann - Peguera Mallorca. In: osteopathieplus-mallorca.com. February 14, 2017. Retrieved March 11, 2017 . 
8. ↑ Landessportbund Niedersachsen e. V., VIBSS: The Federal President and his tasks in the field of sport: .... on June 23, 1993, Federal President von Weizsäcker awarded ... disabled and non-disabled athletes, namely the medal winners of the 1992 Olympic and Paralympic Games with the Silver bay leaf made of ...