GDR railway cycling championships 1982

The GDR championships in track cycling were held for the 34th time in 1982 and took place from July 1st to 3rd on the Alfred Rosch arena in Leipzig .

In the men’s race, Detlef Macha from Erfurt successfully defended their titles from the previous year in the points race and Günter Gottlieb who stood up. Lutz Heßlich sprinted to the fourth title, the time trial driver Emanuel Raasch and the quartet of SC Karl-Marx-Stadt won their third championship title. All other winners came to their first championship honors.

In the women’s race, Christa Rothenburger managed a title hat trick in the sprint and 500 m time trial .

The title in the two-man team driving was already determined on May 29th on the Gera Herbert-Liebs-Kampfbahn .

The GDR Winter Course Championships were in 1982 held for the 7th time and place from January 15 to 16 traditional in Werner Seelenbinder hall of East Berlin instead.

At the championships only the Cottbus sprinter Lutz Heßlich was able to defend his title from the previous year.

Men

sprint

Date: July 3rd
For the third time since 1979 there was the final of Lutz Heßlich versus Michael Huebner at the GDR championship of track cyclists in sprint . And for the third time the Cottbuser Heßlich prevailed and relegated the defending champion from Karl-Marx-Stadt to second place. For Heßlich, who missed the previous year due to a dental operation, it was the fourth title since 1978. In the battle for third place, Berlin’s Ralf-Guido Kuschy prevailed against World Cup third-place Detlef Uibel in three races .

Pl.	driver	society
1	Lutz Heßlich	SC Cottbus
2	Michael Huebner	SC Karl-Marx-Stadt
3	Ralf-Guido Kuschy	TSC Berlin
4th	Detlef Uibel	SC Cottbus
5	Emanuel Raasch	SC Dynamo Berlin
6th	Christian Drescher	TSC Berlin
7th	Michael Kalisch	SC Cottbus
8th	Olaf Arndt	TSC Berlin

	Semifinals				final
	Lutz Heßlich	2
	Ralf-Guido Kuschy	0
					Lutz Heßlich	2
					Michael Huebner	0
					3rd place
	Michael Huebner	2			Ralf-Guido Kuschy	2
	Detlef Uibel				Detlef Uibel	1

1000 m time trial

Date: July 1st
The Berlin Emanuel Raasch (who had decided to start in the time trial only a week before the championship) secured his third championship title after 1975 and 1976 . He relegated the reigning world champions Lothar Thoms and Peter Grünke to their places. Defending champion Maic Malchow came in a respectable fifth place after a long illness.

Pl.	driver	society	Time (min)
1	Emanuel Raasch	SC Dynamo Berlin	1: 06.74
2	Lothar Thoms	SC Cottbus	1: 06.82
3	Peter Grünke	TSC Berlin	1: 06.84
4th	Rainer Hönisch	SC Dynamo Berlin	1: 07.07
5	Maic Malchow	SC DHfK Leipzig	1: 07.62
6th	Schmidt	SC DHfK Leipzig	1: 08.45

4000 m individual pursuit

Date: July 2nd
In the single pursuit 28 drivers started. After the runner-up in the previous year, 21-year-old Bernd Dittert from Berlin won his first title ahead of Harald Wolf, a Karl-Marx-city dweller . In the final, Dittert improved Wolf's track record from 1980. The reigning world champion Detlef Macha failed in the quarter-finals on what would later be third in Gera Gerald Mortag .

Pl.	driver	society	Time (min)
1	Bernd Dittert	SC Dynamo Berlin	4: 44.34 ↔ 4: 44.57
2	Harald Wolf	SC Karl-Marx-Stadt
3	Gerald Mortag	SG Bismut Gera	4: 48.59 ↔ 4: 48.89
4th	Mario Hernig	SC Karl-Marx-Stadt

	Quarter finals				Semifinals				final
	Mario Hernig	4: 49.54
	Volker Winkler	4: 50.37
					Mario Hernig	4: 55.04
					Bernd Dittert	4: 50.82
	Bernd Dittert	4: 49.70
	Wolfgang Loetzsch	4: 49.90
									Bernd Dittert	4: 44.34
									Harald Wolf	4: 44.57
	Harald Wolf	4: 48.23
	Gerald Buder	4: 53.23
					Harald Wolf	4: 51.88			3rd place
					Gerald Mortag	5: 01.94
	Gerald Mortag	4: 54.17							Mario Hernig	4: 48.89
	Detlef Macha	4: 54.20							Gerald Mortag	4: 48.59

4000 m team pursuit

In the starting field consisting of only three teams, SC Karl-Marx-Stadt relegated defending champions SC Dynamo Berlin to second place in the final .

Pl.	society	driver	Time (min)
1	SC Karl-Marx-Stadt	Mario Hernig , Jörg Stein , Steffen Stier , Harald Wolf	4: 28.42 ↔ 4: 29.03
2	SC Dynamo Berlin	Bernd Dittert , Guntram Buder , Gerald Buder , Frank Siggelkow
3	ASK forward Frankfurt / O.	Hans-Joachim Pohl , Ekkehard Ramm , Thomas Schnelle , Fred Müller

50 km points race

Detlef Macha from Erfurt successfully defended his title from the previous year and relegated Hans-Joachim Pohl and Thomas Schnelle from Frankfurt to their places. World champion Lutz Haueisen had to make do with fourth place.

Pl.	driver	society	Points
1	Detlef Macha	SC Turbine Erfurt	57
2	Hans-Joachim Pohl	ASK forward Frankfurt / O.	52
3	Thomas Schnell	ASK forward Frankfurt / O.	42
4th	Lutz Haueisen	SG Bismut Gera	26th
5	Jens Wittek	SC DHfK Leipzig	24/1 lap back
6th	Hans-Joachim Meisch	SC Turbine Erfurt	16/1 lap back
7th	Wolfgang Loetzsch	BSG Motor Ascota Karl-Marx-Stadt	14/1 lap back
8th	Steffen Bull	SC Karl-Marx-Stadt	11/1 lap back

50 km standing race

In the standing race, Günter Gottlieb secured his fourth championship in a row.

Pl.	driver	society	Time (min)
1	Günter Gottlieb behind Gerhard Rüger	BSG locomotive hall SG Dynamo Leipzig	44: 15.2
2	Ronald Hempel behind Carl Riedel	BSG Development Center Leipzig BSG Motor Holzhausen	0805 m back
3	Jens Kunath behind Günter Hillert	BSG Robotron Optima Erfurt BSG Chemie Böhlen	1160 m back

60 km two-man team driving

Date: May 29th
The first title of the year was won by Hans-Joachim Pohl and Thomas Schnelle from Frankfurt on the Herbert-Liebs-Kampfbahn in Gera .

Pl.	driver	society	Points
1	Hans-Joachim Pohl / Thomas Schnelle	ASK forward Frankfurt / O.	15th
2	Gerald Buder / Bernd Dittert	SC Dynamo Berlin	46/1 lap back
3	Mario Hernig / Steffen Stier	SC Karl-Marx-Stadt	42/1 lap back
4th	Volker Winkler / Michael Münnich	SC Cottbus	36/1 lap back
5	Axel Grosser / Jens Wittek	SC DHfK Leipzig	33/1 lap back
6th	Lutz Haueisen / Jens Gollhardt	SG Bismut Gera	30/1 lap back

Women

sprint

Christa Rothenburger from Dresden made the title hat trick in the sprint perfect. In the final, she clearly defeated Petra Richter , who was third from last year, in two races.

Pl.	driver	society
1	Christa Rothenburger	SC unit Dresden
2	Petra Richter	SC Karl-Marx-Stadt
3	Ulrike Frank	SC unit Dresden
4th	Heidi Klawitter	BSG unit Radebeul
5	Andrea Fischer	BSG unit Radebeul
6th	Silke Bauerdorf	SG Dynamo Bischofswerda

500 m time trial

Christa Rothenburger also managed the title hat trick in the 500 m time trial .

Pl.	driver	society	Time (s)
1	Christa Rothenburger	SC unit Dresden	38.60
2	Heidi Klawitter	BSG unit Radebeul	40.79
3	Petra Richter	SC Karl-Marx-Stadt	40.82
4th	Ulrike Frank	SC unit Dresden	41.06
5	Silke Bauerdorf	SG Dynamo Bischofswerda	42.68
6th	Sabine Zierold	BSG unit Radebeul	42.79
7th	Andrea Fischer	BSG unit Radebeul	43.56

3000 m single pursuit

Heidi Klawitter from Radebeul won her fourth championship title in the 3,000 m single pursuit since 1978.

Pl.	driver	society	Time (min)
1	Heidi Klawitter	BSG unit Radebeul	4: 28.51 ↔ 4: 37.94
2	Sabine Zierold	BSG unit Radebeul
3	Siegrun Kießling	HSG DHfK Leipzig	without a fight for Kießling
4th	Silke Bauerdorf	SG Dynamo Bischofswerda

Winter track championships

The GDR Winter Course Championships were in 1982 held for the 7th time and place from January 15 to 16 traditional in Werner Seelenbinder hall of East Berlin instead.

At the championships only the Cottbus sprinter Lutz Heßlich was able to defend his title from the previous year.

Time schedule

Time schedule
date	Competitions
Friday 15th January 1982	4000 m single pursuit - qualification (morning) 1000 m time trial 4000 m single pursuit - finals 200 laps points race in between sprint - prelims
Saturday January 16, 1982	4000 m Team Pursuit - Qualification (Morning) Sprint - Quarter-finals 4000 m Team Pursuit Sprint - Semi-finals 300 laps two-man team sprint

Results

sprint

Lutz Heßlich from Cottbus secured his fifth sprint title at the winter track championships in a row. In the final, he prevailed this time with two wins against Christian Drescher from Berlin .

Pl.	driver	society
1	Lutz Heßlich	SC Cottbus
2	Christian Drescher	TSC Berlin
3	Michael Huebner	SC Karl-Marx-Stadt
4th	Bodo war	SC Dynamo Berlin
5	Hans-Peter Lengenfeld	SC Turbine Erfurt
6th	Michael Kalisch	SC Cottbus
7th	Ralf Dekuy	TSC Berlin
8th	Olaf Arndt	TSC Berlin

	Semifinals				final
	Lutz Heßlich	2
	Bodo war	0
					Lutz Heßlich	2
					Christian Drescher	0
					3rd place
	Christian Drescher	2			Michael Huebner	2
	Michael Huebner	1			Bodo war	0

1000 m time trial

The 19-year-old Maic Malchow from Leipzig (time trial world record holder) secured his first championship title on the winter track ahead of defending champion Lothar Thoms .

Pl.	driver	society	Time (min)
1	Maic Malchow	SC DHfK Leipzig	1: 07.75
2	Lothar Thoms	SC Cottbus	1: 08.08
3	Peter Grünke	TSC Berlin	1: 08.20
4th	Rainer Hönisch	SC Dynamo Berlin	1: 09.07
5	Schmidt	SC DHfK Leipzig	1: 10.12
6th	Rudolph	SC Karl-Marx-Stadt	1: 11.01

4000 m individual pursuit

In the qualification, which consisted of 25 starters, the best six qualified for the finals. There the Berlin Frank Kühn secured his first title in the single pursuit, in which he overtook the world champion in the street four-man team, Mario Kummer after the 14th of 23 possible rounds. Defending champion Volker Winkler came in eighth place.

Pl.	driver	society	Time (min)
1	Frank Kühn	TSC Berlin	Sorrow was overtaken
2	Mario grief	SC Turbine Erfurt
3	Bernd Dittert	SC Dynamo Berlin	4: 53.59 ↔ 4: 55.77
4th	Michael Köller	TSC Berlin
5	Olaf Ludwig	SG Bismut Gera	4: 53.44 ↔ 4: 54.20
6th	Gerald Buder	SC Dynamo Berlin

4000 m team pursuit

Twelve teams contested the qualification, in which the best six qualified for the finals. There the SG Wismut Gera dethroned defending champion SC Dynamo Berlin and set a new track record for club teams with 4: 36.13 minutes.

Pl.	society	driver	Time (min)
1	SG Bismut Gera	Lutz Haueisen , Gerald Mortag , Olaf Ludwig , Jörg Köhler	4: 36.13 ↔ 4: 38.84
2	SC Dynamo Berlin	Bernd Dittert , Ottmar Trittel , Frank Siggelkow , Gerald Buder
3	ASK forward Frankfurt / O.	Hans-Joachim Pohl , Dan Radtke , Ekkehard Ramm , Thomas Schnelle	4: 39.30 ↔ 4: 39.54
4th	SC Karl-Marx-Stadt	Steffen Stier , Jörg Stein , Harald Wolf , Steven Planitzer
5	SC DHfK Leipzig	Andreas Petermann , Axel Grosser , Uwe Raab , Jens Wittek	4: 40.14 ↔ 4: 43.49
6th	SC Turbine Erfurt	Mathias Kittel , Mario Kummer , Detlef Macha , Hans-Joachim Meisch

200 laps of points race

Karl-Marx-Stadter Steffen Stier secured his first title in the points race at the winter track championships, in which he managed to win the decisive lap 14 laps before the end.

Pl.	driver	society	Points
1	Steffen Bull	SC Karl-Marx-Stadt	25th
2	Hans-Joachim Pohl	ASK forward Frankfurt / O.	44/1 lap back
3	Detlef Macha	SC Turbine Erfurt	25/1 lap back
4th	Lutz Haueisen	SG Bismut Gera	13/1 lap back
5	Dieter Stein	TSC Berlin	029/2 laps back
6th	Volker Winkler	SC Cottbus	027/2 laps back

300 laps of two-man team driving

Axel Grosser and Uwe Raab from Leipzig secured their first championship title in two-man team driving.

Pl.	driver	society	Points
1	Axel Grosser / Uwe Raab	SC DHfK Leipzig	18th
2	Dieter Stein / Frank Kühn	TSC Berlin	22/1 lap back
3	Jörg Köhler / Olaf Ludwig	SG Bismut Gera	21/1 lap back
4th	Volker Winkler / Olaf Jentzsch	SC Cottbus	07/1 lap back
5	Thomas Schnelle / Roland Schiewek	ASK forward Frankfurt / O.	04/1 lap back
6th	Holger Müller / Peter Scheibner	SC Karl-Marx-Stadt	016/2 laps back

literature

• Manfred Seifert: Sport82. A yearbook of GDR sports . Sportverlag Berlin, 1982, ISSN  0232-203X , p. 272-273 .
• New Germany . 13-14, 126 and 153-155. Socialist Unity Party of Germany, 1982, ISSN  0323-3375 .
• German sport echo . Sportverlag Berlin, ISSN  0323-8628 (issues of the 1982 season).

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} German Cycling Association of the GDR (Ed.): The cyclist . No. 28/1982 . Berlin 1982, p. 1 .