GDR road cycling championships 1966
The road Radmeisterschaften in the GDR in 1966 won Siegfried Huster in the individual race of men, Hannelore Mattig among women and the SC Dynamo Berlin in the team time trial .
Men singles
The race for the men's individual road championship took place on Sunday, July 24th, at the Sachsenring near Hohenstein-Ernstthal . 20 laps had to be completed on the 8.2 km long circuit, making the total distance 174 km. In addition to the steep climbs on Badberg and Queckenberg, the 80 riders who started had to fight with scorching heat. 59 of them had to pay tribute to the exertion and got off their bikes prematurely. The race already reached its first climax on the second lap, when four relatively unknown riders were able to pull away from the field. At times they had a lead of three minutes and were able to fend off all attacks from the main field for a long time. The group only fell apart in the 15th lap, only the Leipzig ASK driver Ulrich Richter and Dieter Mickein , who was open from the main field , continued the solo journey. A lap later, a sextet formed, in which the defending champion Siegfried Huster also rode. He and Jürgen Exner from ASK Vorwärts Leipzig managed to break away from the group 15 km before the end of the race, and both were aiming safely towards the goal. In the final sprint, Huster left his competitor well behind and defended his championship title with an advantage of eight seconds.
| driver | team | time | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Siegfried Huster | SC Karl-Marx-Stadt | 4:44:17 h |
| 2. | Jürgen Exner | ASK forward Leipzig | + 0:08 min |
| 3. | Axel Peschel | SC Dynamo Berlin | + 1:59 min |
| 4th | Günter Hoffmann | ASK forward Leipzig | all the same time |
| 5. | Dieter Mickein | SC DHfK Leipzig | |
| 6th | Karl-Heinz Kazmierzak | ASK forward Leipzig | |
| 7th | Eberhard Butzke | SC Dynamo Berlin | |
| 8th. | Harald Dippold | SC DHfK Leipzig | |
| 9. | Günter Liebold | SC Dynamo Berlin | |
| 10. | Klaus Kellermann | ASK forward Leipzig | |
| ... | |||
Women singles
The women held their championship in the morning before the men's decision and had to cover 52.2 km in six laps. From a top group of three, the two-time GDR track champion Hannelore Mattig from TSC Berlin won with a narrow lead of three seconds.
| driver | team | time | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Hannelore Mattig | TSC Berlin | 1:40:02 h |
| 2. | Ilka List | SC Karl-Marx-Stadt | + 0:03 min |
| 3. | Eva Nürnberger | BSG Thurn Thurm | + 0:05 min |
| 4th | Christa Moser | SG Dynamo Karl-Marx-Stadt | + 0:38 min |
| 5. | Jutta Jänicke | BSG Empor Berlin North | + 2:54 min |
| ... | |||
Team Championship - Men
On Friday, June 17, 1966, the GDR championship in the 100 km team time trial was held. While a route had been selected at Lübben in the last five years , the 1966 team championship took place on a circuit on the motorway between Engelsdorf and the Schkeuditzer Kreuz near Leipzig . The aim was to give the national team drivers the opportunity to familiarize themselves with a route that was similar to the 1966 World Cup course in Cologne-Müngersdorf . During the race, however, it turned out that the Leipzig route was two kilometers too short. The start and finish was in Leipzig's Max-Liebermann-Straße in the north of the city, with 18 teams of four at the start in scorching heat and mild wind. The defending champion ASK Vorwärts Leipzig and the former series champion SC Dynamo Berlin were considered favorites . Halfway through the distance, the four-man Dynamo had set a speed of 47.2 km / h, which was not reached by any other team. This pace could not be maintained in the second part of the race because Kurt Müller suffered a weakness and Eberhard Butzke fell shortly before the finish. Nevertheless, the remaining trio Lothar Appler , Axel Peschel and Kurt Müller achieved a time of 2:08 hours and 45.9 km / h, a time that was clearly surpassed by the other teams. Even the defending champion Vorwärts Leipzig was around 2:12 minutes slower. Although numerous small sports communities took part in the championship, only one team was not included in the ranking.
| team | time | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | SC Dynamo Berlin I | 2:08:16.4 h |
| 2. | ASK forward Leipzig I | + 2: 11.8 min |
| 3. | ASK forward Leipzig II | + 3: 19.0 min |
| 4th | SC DHfK Leipzig I | + 3: 29.8 min |
| 5. | SC Karl-Marx-Stadt I | + 3: 59.8 min |
| 6th | SC DHfK Leipzig II | + 6: 59.0 min |
| 7th | SC Dynamo Berlin III | + 8: 46.7 min |
| 8th. | SC Turbine Erfurt | + 9: 26.9 min |
| 9. | SC Karl-Marx-Stadt II | + 9: 29.2 min |
| 10. | SC Dynamo Berlin II | + 10: 27.7 min |
| ... | ||
literature
- Deutsches Sportecho , issues from June 20 and July 25, 1966