Danny Clark

Danny Clark

Danny Clark (1999)
To person
Full name	Daniel Clark
Date of birth	August 30, 1951
nation	Australia
discipline	train
Most important successes
Olympic games 1972 - 1000 meter time trial UCI track world championships 1980, 1981 - Keirin 1988, 1991 - standing race
Last updated: April 22, 2019

Daniel "Danny" Clark (born August 30, 1951 in Launceston , Tasmania ) is a former Australian track cyclist and four-time world champion.

Athletic career

Danny Clark had his first international success at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich , when he won the silver medal in the 1000 m time trial on the track. After becoming Australian champion three times, he moved to the pros .

In the same year Clark won his first six-day race with Fred Atkins in Sydney . Then he moved to Europe, because there his professional prospects as a professional cyclist were much better. He lived in Belgium for many years .

With his compatriot Donald Allan he celebrated his first six-day victory in Europe at the Sixdays in Gent in the 1976/77 season ; together they achieved 15 successes in six-day races. With the British Tony Doyle he won another 19 six-day races. Clark started a total of 235 six-day races in his 23-year professional career and achieved 74 victories; so he is in the "eternal list" of six-day winners in second place behind Patrick Sercu . His other partners included drivers such as Francesco Moser , René Pijnen , Urs Freuler and Dietrich Thurau . He won his last six-day race in November 1995 at the age of 44 in Dortmund (with Rolf Aldag ), making him the oldest racing driver to date to have succeeded ( as of 2019 ).

In addition to his successes in six-day races, the versatile Clark was seven times European champion in the Omnium and three times Derny and Madison European champion. In 1980 he also became the first world champion in the Keirin discipline and was able to repeat this success in 1981 ; In 1988 and 1991 he won the world championship title for stayers .

At the six-day races, Clark was not only in demand as a racing driver, but also as an entertainer: he often performed with vocal interludes during the breaks, to which he accompanied himself musically with the guitar.

In 1989, Clark, who now lives in Australia again, was the Australian champion on the high-bike over a mile . In 2014 he shot the 50th six-day race in Bremen , won the All-Star Race at the age of 62 and performed as a musician every evening.

In December 2014, the now 63-year-old Danny Clark started in the Australian championship in two-man team driving. Together with his 21-year-old partner George Tansley , he finished 13th out of 18 teams.

successes

train Championships 1970 Commonwealth Games - one's pursuit 1971 Australian champion - 1000 meter time trial 1972 Olympic Games - 1000 Meter Time Trial Australian champion - 1000 meter time trial 1973 Australian champion - 1000 meter time trial, single pursuit 1976 European Championship - two-man team driving (with Donald Allan ) 1978 European Champion - Omnium 1979 European Champion - Omnium, two-man team driving (with Donald Allan ) 1980 World Champion - Keirin 1981 World Champion - Keirin World Championship - points race 1984 European Champion - Omnium, two-man team driving (with Donald Allan ) 1985 European champions - Derny, Omnium 1986 World Champion - Standing Race European champions - Derny, Omnium 1987 European Championship - Derny 1988 World Champion - Standing Race European Champion - Omnium, two-man team driving (with Tony Doyle ) 1989 European champion - standing race 1990 European Champion - Derny Australian Champion - Two Team Driving (with Robert Burns ) 1991 World Champion - Standing Race 1993 Australian Champion - Two-Man Team Driving (with Matthew Gilmore ) Six days race 1974 Six days Sydney (with Frank Atkins ) 1976 Six days of Gent (with Donald Allan ) 1977 Six days in Münster (with Donald Allan ) Six days Rotterdam (with René Pijnen ) 1978 Six days Rotterdam (with Freddy Maertens ) Six days London (with Donald Allan ) Six days in Copenhagen (with Donald Allan ) Six days of Rotterdam (with René Pijnen ) 1979 Bremen six days race (with René Pijnen ) Six days of Gent (with Donald Allan ) Six days Maastricht (with Donald Allan ) 1980 Six days Hanover (with Donald Allan ) Six day race Cologne (with René Pijnen ) Six Days of London (with Donald Allan ) Six days Munich (with Donald Allan ) Six days in Münster (with Donald Allan ) 1981 Six days Munich (with Donald Allan ) Six days of Rotterdam (with Donald Allan )

1982 Six days Dortmund (with Henry Rinklin ) Six days of Gent (with Donald Allan ) Six days in Herning (with Donald Allan ) 1983 Berlin six-day race (with Tony Doyle ) Six days Dortmund (with Tony Doyle ) 1984 Berlin six-day race (with Horst Schütz ) Six days Maastricht (with René Pijnen ) 1985 Berlin six-day race (with Hans-Henrik Ørsted ) Six-day race Cologne (with Dietrich Thurau ) Six days Maastricht (with Tony Doyle ) Six days of Rotterdam (with René Pijnen ) 1986 Six-day race Bassano del Grappa (with Roberto Amadio and Francesco Moser ) Berlin six-day race (with Tony Doyle ) Six days Dortmund (with Tony Doyle ) Six days of Gent (with Tony Doyle ) Six days in Copenhagen (with Tony Doyle ) Six days Launceston (with Tony Doyle ) Six days in Paris (with Bernard Vallet ) Six days of Rotterdam (with Francesco Moser ) 1987 Bremen six day race (with Dietrich Thurau ) Six days Dortmund (with Roman Hermann ) Six days of Gent (with Etienne De Wilde ) Six days in Copenhagen (with Tony Doyle ) Six days Maastricht (with Tony Doyle ) Six days of Rotterdam (with Pierangelo Bincoletto ) 1988 Six-day race Bassano del Grappa (with Francesco Moser ) Berlin six-day race (with Tony Doyle ) Bremen six days race (with Tony Doyle ) Six days Dortmund (with Tony Doyle ) Six days Munich (with Tony Doyle ) Six days in Münster (with Tony Doyle ) Six days Paris (with Tony Doyle ) Six days of Rotterdam (with Tony Doyle ) 1989 Six days Bassano del Grappa (with Adriano Baffi ) Six days Cologne (with Tony Doyle ) Six-day race Stuttgart (with Uwe Bolten ) Six-day race Copenhagen (with Urs Freuler ) Six days Grenoble (with Gilbert Duclos-Lassalle ) 1990 Six days of Gent (with Roland Günther ) Six days Munich (with Tony Doyle ) Bremen six-day race (with Roland Günther ) Six days in Copenhagen (with Jens Veggerby ) 1991 Six days Dortmund (with Rolf Aldag ) Six days in Copenhagen (with Jens Veggerby ) 1992 Six-day race Copenhagen (with Urs Freuler ) Six-day race Stuttgart (with Pierangelo Bincoletto ) 1993 Six days in Buenos Aires (with Marcelo Alexandre ) 1994 Six days of Gent (with Etienne De Wilde ) Bremen six-day race (with Andreas Kappes ) 1995 Six days Dortmund (with Rolf Aldag ) Six days in Copenhagen (with Jimmi Madsen ) Six days Stuttgart (with Etienne De Wilde ) 2000 Six days Nouméa (with Graeme Brown ) Street 1979 Petegem-aan-de-Leie 1987 Omloop Scheldt Durme 2000 one stage tour of Tasmania

literature

Clark (l.) At a track competition in the Amsterdam Olympic Stadium (1976)

• Jacq van Reijendam: 6-daagsen statistics 2009.

Web links

Commons : Danny Clark  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Danny Clark in the Radsportseiten.net database
• Danny Clark in the ProCyclingStats.com database
• Danny Clark in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ These are unofficial European championship titles, as these competitions were invitation races that were held by the six-day organizers. That is why Clark was able to participate as an Australian.
2. ^ Ed Hood: The Legend that is Danny Clark. In: VeloVeritas. December 21, 2015, accessed April 24, 2019 . 
3. ^ People's hero in flip-flops. Weser-Kurier, January 10, 2014, accessed on November 26, 2015 . 
4. ↑ Jörg Niemeyer: Allstar Derny Race: Clark wins before Kappes. In: Weser courier. January 12, 2014, accessed April 23, 2019 . 
5. ↑ Marcel Segessemann: Danny Clark - 63 years young - started at the Australian Madison Championships. radsportseiten.net, December 22, 2013, accessed December 23, 2014 .