Dirk Meier (cyclist)

Dirk Meier

Dirk Meier (2016)
To person
Date of birth	January 28, 1964
nation	/
discipline	Train , road
End of career	1991
Societies)
	SC Cottbus
Most important successes
1988 Olympic Games - Team Pursuit World Championships 1989 - Team Pursuit
Team (s) as team manager
1997-2000	Agro-Adler Brandenburg
Last update: September 1st, 2016

GDR indoor championships 1987, v. l. To the right: Steffen Blochwitz, Dirk Meier, Thomas Will and Jörg Pawalozyk

Plaque for Dirk Meier on the way to fame in Cottbus

Dirk Meier (born January 28, 1964 in Spremberg ) is a former German racing cyclist .

Athletic career

Dirk Meier achieved most of his successes in the team pursuit . In 1986 and 1987 he was with the team of SC Cottbus (coach: Heiko Salzwedel ) GDR champion, together with Steffen Blochwitz , Roland Hennig and Thomas Will . In 1986 the four-man from the GDR became vice world champion with Meier, Blochwitz, Henning and Bernd Dittert and was able to repeat this success the following year (with Meier, Blochwitz, Hennig and Carsten Wolf ). In 1988 Meier started with the GDR four-wheeler at the Olympic Games in Seoul and won the silver medal together with Blochwitz, Hennig and Carsten Wolf. For this success he was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit in silver. In 1989 he became world champion in the 4,000 m team time trial in Lyon, France.

Dirk Meier was also able to celebrate successes on the road. In 1988 he won the Lower Saxony Tour and the Olympia's Tour , and in 1987 and 1989 the Tour de Liège .

Professional

From 1997 to 2000 Dirk Meier was the manager of the Agro-Adler Brandenburg team . Today the trained construction machinist is harbor master of the boat company in Burg (Spreewald) and organizes bike tours in Lusatia . He runs two hotels in Burg.

successes

1986

•  German Democratic Republic GDR Championships - team pursuit
• World Championships - Team Pursuit

1987

• Overall ranking and two stages of the Tour de Liège
•  German Democratic Republic GDR Championships - team pursuit
• World Championships - Team Pursuit

1988

• Overall ranking, prologue, one stage and mountain ranking Lower Saxony tour
• Overall ranking and one stage of the Olympia's Tour
• Olympic Games - Team Pursuit

1989

• Overall ranking Tour de Liège
• World Championship - Team Pursuit

1991

• German road championships - team time trial

literature

• Volker Kluge : The great lexicon of GDR athletes. The 1000 most successful and popular athletes from the GDR, their successes and biographies. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89602-348-9 , p. 263.

Web links

• Dirk Meier in the Radsportseiten.net database
• Dirk Meier in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• RSC Cottbus: Our medal winners at world championships
• spreewald-info.com ( Memento from April 13, 2008 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The GDR team was initially declared the winner, but after a protest by the Czechoslovak team, due to the decision of the jury, they were placed in second place with 3: 2 votes with a gap of 0.002 seconds.
2. ↑ Neues Deutschland , 12./13. November 1988, p. 4
3. ↑ see web link RSC Cottbus
4. ^ German Cycling Association of the GDR (ed.): The cyclist . No. 36/1988 . Berlin, S. 2 .