Bernd Knispel

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Bernd Knispel (born May 4, 1945 in Rathen) is a former German racing cyclist who was active in the GDR in the 1960s and 1970s .

Athletic career

He began his sporting attempts at swimming, but as there were no successes he switched to cycling after being discovered by coach Rudi Schwab in a touring rider race in Dresden.

Knispel was a state amateur as a member of the SC DHfK Leipzig and the GDR national cycling team . His first career highlight was his participation in the road world championship in 1965 , in which he finished 17th in the individual race as the best GDR driver. Before that, he had become the best young driver in the GDR tour. In his second World Cup participation in 1967 he was only 52 after a fall. In November 1967 he was able to record around 50 victories in cycling competitions.

In 1969 and 1971 he took part in the 100 km team time trial in two more and thus in a total of four world championships.

Between the world championships, Knispel was able to win the two GDR-wide one-day races in the Harz Tour and Grandstand Mountain Prize in 1966 . Before the 1967 World Cup, Knispel was part of the four-man GDR squad for the Tour of Austria , where he finished 13th and was the third-best GDR participant. In 1969 he won his first GDR championship in the team time trial with the team of the SC DHfK Leipzig. He was able to repeat this success in 1970 and 1971.

In his three participations in the three-country stage trip Internationale Friedensfahrt Knispel was less successful. At its debut in 1969, he was with the team Peace Race winner and reached 15th place his best individual result, in 1970 he was 48th, 1971 25 additional case of two stage races he arrived at the Grand Prix de l'Humanité in 1970 to fourth place and was in the GDR tour in 1971 in the individual standings 20, but won the II with his team GDR team score . He had his greatest international success with winning the Grand Prix of Independence in Algeria in spring 1971.

After his active career, he worked as a cycling coach, briefly as a coach for the national team.

literature

  • Klaus Ullrich. Every time in May . Sportverlag Berlin, 1987, ISBN 3-328-00177-8 , pp. 285 to 302

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ DRSV of the GDR (ed.): The cyclist . No. 46 . Berlin November 17, 1967, p. 9 .
  2. ^ DRSV of the GDR (ed.): The cyclist . No. 46 . Berlin November 17, 1967, p. 11 .
  3. ↑ DRSV (ed.): The cyclist . No. 43 . Berlin 1971, p. 3 .
personal data
SURNAME Knispel, Bernd
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German racing cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH before 1960