Dieter Leitner

Dieter Leitner

German champions in the team time trial 1968 (from left to right) Algis Oleknavicius, Jürgen Walter, Karl Ziegler (coach), Jürgen Tschan and Dieter Leitner
To person
Date of birth	1945
nation	Germany
discipline	Street
End of career	1976
Last updated: February 20, 2018

Dieter Leitner (* 1945 in Leipzig ) is a former German racing cyclist . He was three times German champion on the road (twice in the team time trial and once in the individual race) and took part in four world championships , where he reached fourth place once.

Athletic career

Dieter Leitner was active as an amateur road driver until 1976 . He won a stage in the International Rhineland-Palatinate Tour in 1966 . In 1968 he won the four-man team time trial at the German championship with RRC Mannheim final sprint . He had previously started for the RMC Dortmund club . In the same discipline he was German runner- up in 1971 with PSV 1922 Cologne . In 1968 he won the German runner-up in the two-man team driving with Algis Oleknavicius . With Enschede - Münster he won a real amateur classic in 1967. That year he also started the International Peace Tour , which he finished 64th in the overall ranking.

In 1971 Leitner became two-time German champions: in the road race and in the team time trial. Also in 1971 he won the one-day race Cologne-Schuld-Frechen . Leitner achieved his last podium place in championships in 1976 when he finished third with the NRVg Luisenstadt Berlin.

Leitner was also used as a team time trial at the road world championships . In 1966 he came in eleventh place with the Germany four, in 1967 he reached fourth place with the German team.

In 1971 Dieter Leitner tested positive for amphetamines , but acquitted of suspicion due to lack of evidence.

Trivia

In 1990 Dieter Leitner opened a bicycle shop in Ahrensburg in Schleswig-Holstein , which he ran until his retirement in 2014.

Web links

• Dieter Leitner in the Radsportseiten.net database

Individual evidence

1. ^ Association of German cyclists (ed.): Radsport . No. 13/1967 . Deutscher Sportverlag Kurt Stoof, Cologne 1967, p. 4 .
2. ↑ Rene Jacobs (Ed.): VELO . 13th year. Brussels 1968, p. 145 .
3. ↑ Bogdan Tuszynski, Daniel Marzalek: Wyscig Pokoju . FDK Warszawa, Warsaw 2002, p. 62 .
4. ↑ Marcel Reinold: Doping as a construction. transcript Verlag, 2016, ISBN 978-3-839-43761-2 , p. 188 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
5. ↑ Ahrensburg bike expert closes his business. Hamburger Abendblatt , February 10, 2014, accessed on February 8, 2017 .