Bernd Drogan

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Bernd Drogan (2016)
Bernd Drogan is kept on his bike by Lutz Heßlich on January 7, 1989 on the Berlin Winter Railway in the Werner-Seelenbinder-Halle
After a stage victory in the Peace Tour on May 15, 1977

Bernd Drogan (born October 26, 1955 in Bohsdorf near Döbern , Cottbus district ) is a former German road cyclist from the GDR and world champion in cycling .

youth

Bernd Drogan started cycling at Lok Forst in 1967 and won the GDR's best determination in that year in the individual road individual driving for schoolchildren B. In 1968 he achieved third place in the individual time trial for schoolchildren A and was seventh in the street four with the Cottbus district selection the child and youth spartakiad .

In 1969 the club was delegated to SC Cottbus . In the same year he won the Association Cup Road with the team. 1970 Drogan was seventh with the second Bahn-Vierer representation of SC Cottbus in the children and youth spartakiade. At the GDR championship in street singles, he took eighth place in the youth B age group. 1971 Drogan was GDR champion of youth B with the street foursome. At the Cottbus district championship, the four of SC Cottbus made up of Bernd Drogan, Hans-Joachim Hartnick , Adelmeyer and Stegk set a new GDR record over 50 km in 1: 08: 31.5 hours. Drogan was fourth in the GDR championship in street singles.

In 1972 he won a gold medal with the street foursome at the youth friendship competition in Brno. At the International Youth Cup, Cycling Aces of the Future , Drogan came third behind Hartnick and Bulgarian Dimitrov. In the four-stage trip in Cottbus, he finished sixth. At the children's and youth spartakiad he won the 3000 m individual time trial and was second in the street foursome. Drogan won the GDR championship of youth B in the street foursome. He won the final Olympic prize in the street singles of youth B, was eighth in the overall ranking of the Junior Cup in Romania and seventh in the overall ranking of III. International rally for juniors in Neugersdorf .

In 1973 Bernd Drogan was a six-time GDR youth A champion - he won the cross-country race , the 4000 m individual time trial on the track, the road individual, the road team race, the criterion and the all-around competition. Furthermore, that year he was second in the four-stage race in Cottbus, second with the four-man team at the youth competition of friendship in Miskolc / Hungary and won the final Olympic prize in the street singles.

Men

1973 Drogan drove for the first time in the men. In his first year he was tenth in Rund um Langenau , fifth in the road team driving in Poland (with the second GDR national team), fourth in Rund um den Scharmützelsee and 17th in the big "Sportecho" award in Sebnitz. He was also GDR runner-up in road team driving. In 1976 he won the Harz Tour , which was the 8th stage of the GDR tour that year .

Bernd Drogan also started in the men's division for SC Cottbus . He trained with Manfred Nitschke and later with Eberhard Pöschke . His greatest success was winning the world championship in the individual road race after a solo journey of 45 kilometers. In that year and in 1979 he was voted GDR Sportsman of the Year . He also won two world championship titles and an Olympic silver medal in the team time trial, as well as a bronze medal in the individual World Cup.

In the course of his cycling career, Drogan also had to cope with many setbacks: in 1975 he had to give up due to blood poisoning after a fall on the GDR tour . In 1978, he broke off just before the International Peace Race , the collarbone , in the Peace Race in 1980 he was a fall on the tenth stage because of the consequences, a year later the same fate befell him, and in 1983 prevented a fall from him a better position than Rank 31. He could not take part in the 1984 Olympic Games because of the boycott of the Eastern Bloc countries, including the GDR.

After the end of your career / professional

After retiring from competitive sports in 1985, he became a qualified sports teacher and returned to his former club, SC Cottbus, as a cycling coach. After the end of the GDR, he first worked as an accountant and later opened his own sports shop. He then became a trainer at the Brandenburg State Cycling Association. As a recreational cyclist, he won the Tour d'Allée , a celebrity race over 100 kilometers in Binz (island of Rügen ) in 2002, and in 2003 he came second in the same race. He later took part in the peace trip , which he rode four times as an active athlete (1976 to 1979), as the chief referee's driver, most recently in 2004. In autumn 2018, Drogan gave up his work as a trainer at the Brandenburg Association to admit to being a teacher trainer work. He remained loyal to cycling and became a member of the Cottbus Veloteam Old Boys as a recreational athlete .

Familiar

Bernd Drogan has a son and a daughter.

Successes (selection)

  • 1975 World championship sixth in the 100 km team race with the GDR four-man
  • 1976 Peace Trip - Eleventh
  • 1977 Peace Tour sixth (and winner of the 7th stage), winner of the GDR tour , winner Tour du Vaucluse , winner Tour de Bohemia
  • 1978 winner of the Circuit Cycliste Sarthe ; Winner of the GDR tour
  • 1979 Friedensfahrt-eight (and winner of the 7th, 12th and 13th stage); World champion in 100 km team driving with the GDR four-man; Third place in the world championship individual race; Winner of the GDR tour
  • 1980 Silver medal at the Olympic Games in Moscow in the 100 km team race with the GDR foursome (with Falk Boden , Hans-Joachim Hartnick , Olaf Ludwig )
  • 1981 world champion in 100 km team driving with the GDR four-man (with Falk Boden, Mario Kummer , Olaf Ludwig)
  • 1982 World Road Individual Champion in Goodwood ; Winner of the GDR tour ;
  • 1982 Premio La Farola victory
  • 1983 victory in the Tour of Slovakia, stage victory in the Tour de l'Avenir
  • 1984 last victory, stage victory of the GDR tour
World Championship 1975 1978 1979 1981 1982 1983
Road racing DNF 62 3 70 1 23
Individual time trial
Team time trial
Legend: DNF: did not finish , abandoned or withdrawn from the race due to timeout.

literature

Web links

Commons : Bernd Drogan  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Der Radsportler, November 1, 1973, page 2, Personal details: Bernd Drogan , publisher: German Cycling Association of the GDR, Berlin, 1973
  2. ^ German Cycling Association of the GDR (ed.): The cyclist . No. 32/1972 . Berlin 1972, p. 2 .
  3. ^ German Cycling Association of the GDR (ed.): The cyclist . No. 35/1976 . Berlin 1976, p. 3 .
  4. ^ Cycling , January 16, 1985
  5. ↑ Märkische Oderzeitung , September 14, 2018.
  6. ↑ From the Chronicle of the Veloteam Cottbus. In: veloteam.de. Accessed March 31, 2020 .
  7. ↑ VandenBremt Jacobs (ed.): VELO 1984 . Dendermonde.
  8. ↑ VandenBremt Jacobs (Eds.): VELOCITY 1985 . Dendermonde.
personal data
SURNAME Drogan, Bernd
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH October 26, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Bohsdorf