Bert Dietz

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Bert Dietz (born February 9, 1969 in Leipzig ) is a former racing cyclist. He drove for the Telekom team .

Bert Dietz Road cycling
Bert Dietz
Bert Dietz
To person
Date of birth February 9, 1969
nation GermanyGermany Germany
discipline Street
To the team
Current team End of career
Societies)
RSG Nuremberg
Team (s)
1994-1998, 1999-2000 Team Telekom, Nuremberg
Most important successes

Stage Vuelta a España 1995

Last updated: September 7, 2012

Career

Bert Dietz celebrated the first high point of his career in 1986 when he won the bronze medal at the Junior World Championships in Casablanca with the GDR road scull. Two years later (1988) Dietz was fourth in the GDR road championships for adults. He started for the SC DHfK Leipzig . After 1989 Dietz achieved further amateur successes as a driver for the RSG Nürnberg team . In 1990 he won the Thuringia Tour and in 1993 the Rhineland-Palatinate Tour. In 1993 he became the German amateur road champion.

With this success behind him, Dietz made the leap to the professionals in 1994 and signed a contract with the Telekom team. Already in his first year he celebrated the greatest success of his career: he won the royal stage at the Vuelta in the Sierra Nevada, which ended at an altitude of 2,300 meters, ahead of Laurent Jalabert . According to his own statement, he was already using performance-enhancing substances such as cortisone or a special “cocktail” from the supervisor d'Hont.

In 1996 Dietz came second in the Tour of Sweden. In 1997 he won a stage in the Aragon Tour . In 1999 Dietz moved to the Nürnberger team. With this team he finished third in a stage of the Deutschland Tour in 2000 . In the same year Bert Dietz ended his career as a cyclist.

Professional

Bert Dietz currently operates the sporting goods mail order company Bert Dietz Sportswear Ltd. based in Trebsen .

Confession of doping

On May 21, 2007, Dietz confessed in the ARD show Beckmann that he had been doping regularly with EPO since 1995, initially with the then Telekom team and later with the Nürnberger team (under the guidance and continued care of the team Telekom doctors named below) . In this context, he also named senior managers from what was then the Telekom team, who u. a. allegedly dealt with the settlement of doping substances used by drivers.

In addition to management and supervisors, he particularly stressed the two team doctors from Team Telekom at the time, Lothar Heinrich and Andreas Schmid from the Freiburg University Hospital . He explained that both of them not only recommended the use of EPO at the time, but also supplied him with the agent (by post or through middlemen in the team) and, in individual cases, even injected it personally. (Heinrich and Schmid had already been suspended from the T-Mobile team at the beginning of May 2007 after the Belgian masseur Jef D'hont accused them of participating in organized doping. After Dietz's revelations, both doctors admitted to having practiced systematic doping.)

Bert Dietz explicitly pointed out in the Beckmann broadcast that he mainly reveals his doping past for two reasons: On the one hand, because he personally no longer wants to expose himself to the dilemma of having to deny his doping past both privately and publicly, and ultimately maybe to be the victim of revelations. On the other hand, he hopes to make it clear through his admission that doping is a widespread practice in cycling. Only a radical break could enable a new beginning for cycling. This new beginning should enable active drivers in particular to break with their doping past and present. To portray individual athletes as scapegoats would be one-sided and unjust in view of the tacit acceptance by a majority of active, functionaries and officials as well as the media public.

Most important successes

1990

1992

1993

1995

Web links

Commons : Bert Dietz  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rad Sport Kontakt GmbH (ed.): Rad-Bundesliga 1993 . Frankfurt am Main 1993, p. 10 .
  2. ↑ Dietz confesses to n-tv, May 21, 2007
  3. ↑ The great conspiracy sportticker.net 23 May 2007 at
personal data
SURNAME Dietz, Bert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German racing cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH February 9, 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig