GDR railway cycling championships 1984
The GDR championship in track cycling was held for the 36th time in 1984 and took place from June 7th to 9th on the Alfred-Rosch-Kampfbahn in Leipzig .
The Cottbus sprinter Lutz Heßlich successfully defended the men’s title and the SC Karl-Marx-Stadt quartet in the team pursuit . Maic Malchow secured his second title after 1981 in the 1000 m time trial . All other winners came to their first championship honors.
In the women's category, Christa Rothenburger built on her successes from 1980 to 1982 with her double success in the sprint and in the 500 m time trial.
The title in two-man team driving was only determined on October 13th at the Cottbus cycling track .
The GDR Winter Railway Championships were held for the 9th time in 1984 and traditionally took place from January 5th to 7th in the Werner-Seelenbinder-Halle in East Berlin .
At the championships, no winner from last year was successful again, and new track records were set on all three time trial courses.
Men
sprint
The reigning world champion Lutz Heßlich secured his sixth title and third in a row against the strong Karl-Marx-Stadter winter track master Michael Huebner and the Berlin Ralf-Guido Kuschy .
| 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 | Olaf Arndt | TSC Berlin |
| 6th | Karsten Schmalfuß | SC Karl-Marx-Stadt |
| 7th | Maik Krannig | SC Cottbus |
| 8th | Christian peoples | SC Dynamo Berlin |
1000 m time trial
Date: June 7th
In difficult external conditions, twelve time trialists ran the 1000 m distance. Maic Malchow from Leipzig (Junior World Champion from 1980) secured his second championship title after 1981 . He relegated the reigning winter railway master Andreas Ganske and the Cottbuser Detlef Uibel to their places. The five-time world champion Lothar Thoms came in a respectable fifth place after injuries and necessary operations.
| Pl. | driver | society | Time (min) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Maic Malchow | SC DHfK Leipzig | 1: 06.52 |
| 2 | Andreas Ganske | TSC Berlin | 1: 07.17 |
| 3 | Detlef Uibel | SC Cottbus | 1: 07.29 |
| 4th | Bill Huck | SC Dynamo Berlin | 1: 07.44 |
| 5 | Lothar Thoms | SC Cottbus | 1: 07.57 |
| 6th | Emanuel Raasch | SC Dynamo Berlin | 1: 07.71 |
4000 m individual pursuit
Date: June 8th
In the absence of defending champion Bernd Dittert , Karl-Marx-Städter Mario Hernig won his first title in the single pursuit. He relegated his club mate and best of qualification Harald Wolf and the BSG driver Wolfgang Lötzsch to their places.
| Pl. | driver | society | Time (min) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mario Hernig | SC Karl-Marx-Stadt |
4: 54.02 ↔ 4: 58.67 |
| 2 | Harald Wolf | SC Karl-Marx-Stadt | |
| 3 | Wolfgang Loetzsch | BSG Motor Ascota Karl-Marx-Stadt |
4: 56.62 ↔ 5: 00.46 |
| 4th | Volker Winkler | SC Cottbus |
| Quarter finals | Semifinals | final | ||||||||
| Harald Wolf | 4: 54.98 | |||||||||
| Gerald Buder | 4: 57.94 | |||||||||
| Harald Wolf | 4: 56.93 | |||||||||
| Volker Winkler | 4: 57.30 | |||||||||
| Volker Winkler | 5: 01.74 | |||||||||
| Lutz Haustein | 5: 06.02 | |||||||||
| Harald Wolf | 4: 58.67 | |||||||||
| Mario Hernig | 4: 54.02 | |||||||||
| Mario Hernig | 4: 58.49 | |||||||||
| Frank Kühn | 5: 01.93 | |||||||||
| Mario Hernig | 4: 56.64 | 3rd place | ||||||||
| Wolfgang Loetzsch | 5: 02.18 | |||||||||
| Wolfgang Loetzsch | 4: 55.52 | Volker Winkler | 5: 00.46 | |||||||
| Michael Köller | 4: 55.53 | Wolfgang Loetzsch | 4: 56.62 | |||||||
4000 m team pursuit
After the best time in the qualification, the Karl-Marx-Städter confidently defended their title from the previous year. They defeated SC Dynamo Berlin in the semi-finals and relegated SC Turbine Erfurt to second place in the final . The quartet from Karl-Marx-Stadt thus made the title hat trick perfect with the same cast .
| Pl. | society | driver | Time (min) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | SC Karl-Marx-Stadt | Harald Wolf , Mario Hernig , Steffen Stier , Jörg Stein |
4: 31.78 ↔ 4: 39.96 |
| 2 | SC Turbine Erfurt | Detlef Macha , Jörg Windorf , Uwe Hochfeld , Michael Stück | |
| 3 | SC Dynamo Berlin | Gerald Buder , Ottmar Trittel , Carsten Wolf , Frank Siggelkow |
4: 38.57 ↔ 4: 46.46 |
| 4th | TSC Berlin | Michael Köller , Frank Kühn , Christian Jäger , Cedric Güthe |
| Semifinals | final | |||||
| SC Karl-Marx-Stadt | 4: 34.93 | |||||
| SC Dynamo Berlin | 4: 47.23 | |||||
| SC Karl-Marx-Stadt | 4: 31.78 | |||||
| SC Turbine Erfurt | 4: 39.96 | |||||
| 3rd place | ||||||
| TSC Berlin | 4: 35.59 | SC Dynamo Berlin | 4: 38.57 | |||
| SC Turbine Erfurt | 4: 34.48 | TSC Berlin | 4: 46.46 | |||
50 km points race
The experienced Dieter Stein was only able to outrun the young Carsten Wolf in the third from last stand and won his first title in this discipline.
| Pl. | driver | society | Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dieter Stein | TSC Berlin | 45 |
| 2 | Carsten Wolf | SC Dynamo Berlin | 44 |
| 3 | Jörg Windorf | SC Turbine Erfurt | 33 |
| 4th | Hans-Joachim Pohl | ASK forward Frankfurt / O. | 32 |
| 5 | Lutz Haueisen | SG Bismut Gera | 32 |
| 6th | Jürgen Kummer | SC Cottbus | 24 |
50 km standing race
The new GDR champion in the stand-up race was the 27-year-old Karl Marx townsperson Jörg Flohrer . He relegated defending champion Günter Gottlieb to second place, who was deprived of the chance to win his sixth championship in a row because of a faulty pacemaker engine.
| Pl. | driver | society | Time (min) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Jörg Flohrer behind Dieter Hillert |
BSG Motor Ascota Karl-Marx-Stadt BSG Chemie Böhlen |
44:15 |
| 2 |
Günter Gottlieb behind Günter Hillert |
BSG locomotive hall BSG Chemie Böhlen |
280 m back |
| 3 |
Ronald Hempel behind Carl Riedel |
BSG Development Center Leipzig BSG Motor Holzhausen |
1070 m back |
60 km two-man team driving
Date: October 13th
The last title of the year and also the last one in the two-man team cycling in the history of GDR track cycling was won by last year's runners-up, Axel Grosser and Jens Wittek from Leipzig.
| Pl. | driver | society |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Axel Grosser / Jens Wittek | SC DHfK Leipzig |
| 2 | Michael Köller / Frank Kühn | TSC Berlin |
| 3 | Gerald Mortag / Frank Seeland | SG Bismut Gera |
Women
sprint
Date: June 8th Christa Rothenburger , who was the
favorite from Dresden , won her fourth sprint championship title since 1980. She relegated Sabine Zierold and Silke Bauerdorf to their places.
| Pl. | driver | society |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Christa Rothenburger | SC unit Dresden |
| 2 | Sabine Zierold | BSG unit Radebeul |
| 3 | Silke Bauerdorf | SG Dynamo Bischofswerda |
| 4th | Heike Nöske | BSG Motor Magdeburg South-East |
| 5 | Carola Bürger | SC unit Dresden |
500 m time trial
As in the sprint, Christa Rothenburger , the favorite from Dresden, won her fourth championship title over the 500 m distance since 1980.
| Pl. | driver | society | Time (s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Christa Rothenburger | SC unit Dresden | 39.10 |
| 2 | Elke Bock | BSG Rotation Leipzig-East | 42.40 |
| 3 | Birgit Bear | BSG locomotive Nordhausen | 42.45 |
| 4th | Sabine Zierold | BSG unit Radebeul | 42.89 |
3000 m single pursuit
Last year third Silke Bauerdorf from Bischofswerda secured the title in the single pursuit .
| Pl. | driver | society | Time (min) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Silke Bauerdorf | SG Dynamo Bischofswerda |
4: 29.40 ↔ 4: 31.11 |
| 2 | Sabine Zierold | BSG unit Radebeul | |
| 3 | Heike Nöske | BSG Motor Magdeburg South-East |
4: 35.19 ↔ 4: 45.82 |
| 4th | Elke Bock | BSG Rotation Leipzig-East |
Winter track championships
The GDR Winter Railway Championships were held for the 9th time in 1984 and traditionally took place from January 5th to 7th in the Werner-Seelenbinder-Halle in East Berlin .
At the championships, no previous year's winner was successful again and new track records were set on all three time trial courses.
Time schedule
| Time schedule | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| date | Competitions | ||
| Thursday 5th January 1984 |
4000 m Individual Pursuit - Qualification 4000 m Individual Pursuit - Quarter-finals |
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| Friday January 6th 1984 |
6.30 p.m. | 4000 m single pursuit - semifinals 1000 m time trial 4000 m single pursuit 50 km two-man team race in between sprint - prelims |
|
| Saturday January 7th 1984 |
6 p.m. | Sprint - Semifinals 4000 m team pursuit Sprint 200 laps points race |
|
Results
sprint
Michael Huebner , a Karl Marx townsperson, secured his first sprint title at the winter track championships. In the final, he prevailed with two wins each against Ralf-Guido Kuschy and Christian Drescher . This constellation in the final resulted from the absence of the six-time title holder Lutz Heßlich in the semi-finals, who suffered a concussion in a fall in the quarter-finals .
| Pl. | driver | society |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Michael Huebner | SC Karl-Marx-Stadt |
| 2 | Ralf-Guido Kuschy | TSC Berlin |
| 3 | Christian Drescher | TSC Berlin |
| 4th | Lutz Heßlich | SC Cottbus |
| 5 | Karsten Schmalfuß | SC Karl-Marx-Stadt |
| 6th | Michael Kalisch | SC Dynamo Berlin |
1000 m time trial
The 19-year-old Berlin-based Andreas Ganske (Junior World Champion from 1982) secured the championship title from defending champions Maic Malchow and Emanuel Raasch . He improved the six-year-old track record of the multiple world champion Lothar Thoms by 0.72 s.
| Pl. | driver | society | Time (min) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Andreas Ganske | TSC Berlin | 1: 06.72 |
| 2 | Maic Malchow | SC DHfK Leipzig | 1: 07.72 |
| 3 | Emanuel Raasch | SC Dynamo Berlin | 1: 08.47 |
| 4th | Peter Grünke | TSC Berlin | 1: 08.59 |
| 5 | Rainer Hönisch | SC Dynamo Berlin | 1: 08.69 |
| 6th | Bill Huck | SC Dynamo Berlin | 1: 08.73 |
4000 m individual pursuit
In the qualification, which was contested by 72 starters, Mario Hernig from Karl Marx City achieved a new track record of 4: 51.20 minutes. He improved this again in the quarterfinals to 4: 47.76 minutes. In the semifinals, however, he had to admit defeat to the reigning road world champion Uwe Raab , who then won the title in the final against his club-mate Uwe Ampler .
| Pl. | driver | society | Time (min) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Uwe Raab | SC DHfK Leipzig |
4: 52.39 ↔ 4: 57.08 |
| 2 | Uwe Ampler | SC DHfK Leipzig | |
| 3 | Mario Hernig | SC Karl-Marx-Stadt |
Sorrow was overtaken |
| 4th | Mario grief | SC Turbine Erfurt | |
| 5 | Michael Köller | TSC Berlin |
4: 50.22 ↔ 4: 51.82 |
| 6th | Frank Kühn | TSC Berlin |
| Quarter finals | Semifinals | final | ||||||||
| Mario Hernig | 4: 47.67 | |||||||||
| Lutz Haustein | caught up | |||||||||
| Mario Hernig | 4: 52.35 | |||||||||
| Uwe Raab | 4: 49.89 | |||||||||
| Uwe Raab | 4: 49.56 | |||||||||
| Frank Kühn | ||||||||||
| Uwe Raab | 4: 52.39 | |||||||||
| Uwe Ampler | 4: 57.08 | |||||||||
| Mario grief | 4: 50.87 | |||||||||
| Michael Köller | ||||||||||
| Mario grief | 3rd place | |||||||||
| Uwe Ampler | ||||||||||
| Uwe Ampler | 4: 49.42 | Mario Hernig | ||||||||
| Steffen Bull | Mario grief | caught up | ||||||||
4000 m team pursuit
In the qualification, the four-man from SC Karl-Marx-Stadt set a new track record with 4: 34.03 minutes. However, they lost this in the final to the quartet from Frankfurt / O. who won with 4: 31.77 minutes.
| Pl. | society | driver | Time (min) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ASK forward Frankfurt / O. | Hardy Gröger , Thomas Kapuste , Thomas Schnelle , Dan Radtke |
4: 31.77 ↔ 4: 34.86 |
| 2 | SC Karl-Marx-Stadt | Mario Hernig , Steffen Stier , Jörg Stein , Harald Wolf | |
| 3 | SC Turbine Erfurt | Uwe Hochfeld , Mario Kummer , Detlef Macha , Jörg Windorf |
4: 32.58 ↔ 4: 34.79 |
| 4th | SC DHfK Leipzig | Uwe Ampler , Axel Grosser , Frank Herzog , Uwe Raab | |
| 5 | TSC Berlin | Cedrik Güthe , Christian Jäger , Michael Köller , Frank Kühn |
4: 36.78 ↔ 4: 38.25 |
| 6th | SG Bismut Gera | Jörg Köhler , Olaf Ludwig , Gerald Mortag , Andreas Wartenberg |
200 laps of points race
Volker Winkler from Cottbus secured his fourth title in the points run at winter track championships. Despite a fall with second Hans-Joachim Pohl after 95 laps, they remained the dominant drivers in the field.
| Pl. | driver | society | Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Volker Winkler | SC Cottbus | 38 |
| 2 | Hans-Joachim Pohl | ASK forward Frankfurt / O. | 24 |
| 3 | Carsten Wolf | SC Dynamo Berlin | 21st |
| 4th | Detlef Macha | SC Turbine Erfurt | 9 |
| 5 | Jan Gloßmann | SC Cottbus | 7th |
| 6th | Thomas Kapuste | ASK forward Frankfurt / O. | 17/1 lap back |
50 km two-man team driving
The local heroes Michael Köller and Frank Kühn secured their first championship title in two-man team driving.
| Pl. | driver | society | Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Michael Köller / Frank Kühn | TSC Berlin | 22nd |
| 2 | Axel Grosser / Uwe Raab | SC DHfK Leipzig | 42/1 lap back |
| 3 | Volker Winkler / Frank Jesse | SC Cottbus | 5/1 lap back |
| 4th | Hardy Gröger / Dan Radtke | ASK forward Frankfurt / O. | 7/3 laps back |
| 5 | Holger Müller / Peter Scheibner | SC Karl-Marx-Stadt | 11/5 laps back |
| 6th | Thomas Schenderlein / Jörg Köhler | SG Bismut Gera | 7/6 laps back |
literature
- New Germany . No. 4-8 . Socialist Unity Party of Germany, 1984, ISSN 0323-3375 .
- German sport echo . Sportverlag Berlin, 1984, ISSN 0323-8628 .