Bernd Patzig

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Bernd Patzig (born June 22, 1944 in Chemnitz ) is a former German racing cyclist who was active in the GDR during the 1960s .

Athletic career

Patzig, whose father was also active in cycling, began his racing career in 1959 with the Karl-Marx-Städter Betriebsportgemeinschaft (BSG) Motor Diamand, for which he won first races in the 14/16 age group. His first trainer was Siegfried Oertelt. With the youth class, he moved to BSG Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt in 1962 and in the same year became GDR champion in youth team driving on the road and second in youth individual road driving with BSG Wismut. In 1963, Patzig, who had meanwhile completed his apprenticeship as an upholsterer , was taken over by the newly founded SC Karl-Marx-Stadt and now drove in the men's category, where he immediately won the district championship in Karl-Marx-Stadt and quickly rose to performance class I.

The 1.78 m tall Patzig achieved his first notable successes in the men's category in 1965. After a stage victory in the Tour of Slovakia , he was third in the final ranking and won the purple jersey of the most active driver. He also achieved good placements in the one-day races around Leipzig (5th), around Berlin (7th) and around the Spaargebirge (5th). Patzig, who had also acquired his master craftsman's certificate as a master decorator in 1965, followed on from these successes in 1966 at first seamlessly. In the qualifying races for the International Peace Trip , he was accepted into the GDR peace team after winning two of the qualifying races. As the youngest member of the team, he had difficulty adjusting to the tour from the start, worked his way up to 53rd place, but retired early after the ninth stage due to a fall. In the later Tour of Poland he was able to present himself better in individual stages with two second and one third place. In the final ranking he came in 14th as the best GDR driver.

In 1967 he won the race around the Hainleite and took part in the Tour of Austria. There he finished second on one stage and 22nd in the end.

1968 was his most successful year when he not only won the stage in the GDR Tour and the Tour of Bulgaria, but also became a GDR road driving champion. In 1970 he competed again on the Tour of Austria, in which he finished third and second in stages six and eight, and 27th in the final ranking. At the age of 26, he ended his cycling career at the end of 1970.

literature

  • Klaus Ullrich. Every time in May . Sportverlag Berlin, 1987, ISBN 3-328-00177-8
  • GDR sports newspaper Deutsches Sportecho , issue of April 12, 1966 with a short biography

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ German Cycling Association of the GDR (ed.): The cyclist . Born in 1966, No. 15 . Berlin April 15, 1966, p. 7 .
personal data
SURNAME Patzig, Bernd
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German racing cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH June 22, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Chemnitz