Elfriede Vey

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Elfriede Vey at a women's race in Erfurt (1956)

Elfriede Vey (born February 19, 1922 in Magdeburg , † September 28, 1997 in Paderborn ; born Elfriede Anneliese Siegmann ) was a German cyclist .

Elfriede Vey began her sporty amateur career in 1951. She first started for the BSG “Einheit Freiberg” and from 1958 for the “SC Motor Karl-Marx-Stadt”. In ten years she took part in 183 track and road races and achieved 131 victories, mostly in road races, but also in individual pursuit races and in elimination races on the cycle track.

She was best in the GDR in road cycling four times:

Elfriede Vey was an extremely persistent driver who, especially at the beginning of her sporting career, covered long distances with her husband and trainer Horst Vey. This included, for example, trips from Freiberg to Berlin with a return trip the following day.

On July 8, 1953, she set an hour record on the cement railway in Heidenau . Despite adverse weather conditions, she drove 36.962 km per hour and with 616 meters surpassed the All Union record of the Soviet athlete A. Subkova. Since only one trainer with national approval was present at the record run, it was only recognized as a GDR record. On September 29, 1959, Elfriede Vey improved her time on the Alfred-Rosch-Kampfbahn to 37.561 km.

Elfriede Vey also achieved international success. At her first start abroad on the Herne Hill Velodrome on July 20, 1957, she won the individual pursuit over a distance of over 3,500 meters. She also took part in the road race held the following day in London , where she finished in a respectable 10th place in a strong field of 35 participants. The track and road races were intended to be the women's world championship, but the UCI International Cycling Federation has not yet decided to hold a women's world championship. But since everything was prepared, the races were held as a world criterion.

In a world criterion held in Leipzig from September 17 to 20, 1957, Elfriede Vey again won the 3,000-meter pursuit on the track. In an elimination run over 1,000 meters the day before, she finished second behind the Englishwoman Joan Poole.

At the UCI Road World Championships in 1958 in Reims , Elfriede Vey finished 12th in a field of 28 participants, and at the UCI Track World Championships in Paris in 1958 , she reached the quarter-finals with the fifth fastest time in the 3,000-meter pursuit.

She achieved one of her greatest successes in the women's world championship revenge on September 15, 1958 in Roanne over the distance of 78 kilometers. Shortly before the finish, she pulled away from the field and was able to save her lead just to the finish in a falling thunderstorm.

Due to her sporting successes at home and abroad, she was awarded the title of Master of Sports on August 14, 1958 . A year earlier, after her success in London, Elfriede Vey became an honorary member of the Women's Cycle Racing Association (WCRA).

At the UCI Road World Championships in 1959 , Elfriede Vey finished 9th in Belgium despite a fall.

In 1959 and 1960 the strongest female road drivers in the GDR were trained by Otto Busse . Elfriede Vey continued to achieve top places, e.g. B. at the GDR championships in 1959 in Leipzig a fourth and 1960 in Schleiz a third place.

Elfriede Vey drove her last race at the UCI Road World Championships in 1960 on the Sachsenring . She finished 23rd and then ended her career.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Elfriede Vey ended active career . In: Cycling Week of January 24, 1961, p. 2
  2. ↑ Elfriede Vey GDR best . In: Cycling Week of August 3, 1954, p. 4
  3. ↑ The women's best was also determined on Sunday . In: Cycling Week of July 31, 1956, pp. 3 and 10
  4. ↑ That was Elfriede's route . In: Cycling Week of August 27, 1957, p. 7
  5. ↑ Elfriede Vey was clearly superior . In: Cycling Week of July 1, 1958, p. 5
  6. ↑ a b At home in the saddle and on the track . In: Freie Presse , Freiberg local edition, February 8, 1997
  7. ↑ Portrait of a racing driver: Elfriede Vey . In: Cycling Week of January 25, 1955, p. 6
  8. ↑ Elfriede Vey drove 37.561 km . In: Cycling Week of October 6, 1959, p. 12
  9. ↑ Elfriede Vey beat England's champion . In: Cycling Week of July 30, 1957, p. 12
  10. ↑ Once Vey - once Poole . In: Cycling Week of September 24, 1957, p. 5
  11. ↑ Elsy Jacobs was ahead of everyone . In: Cycling Week of September 2, 1958, p. 6
  12. ^ The official amateur results from Paris . In: Cycling Week of September 9, 1958, p. 7
  13. ^ A valuable victory in France for Elfriede Vey . In: Cycling Week of September 23, 1958, p. 12
  14. ^ The first world title for Belgium . In: Cycling Week of August 4, 1959, p. 8
  15. ^ Mass arrivals of youth and women . In: Cycling Week of August 18, 1959, p. 9
  16. ↑ The same enema for the third time . In: Cycling Week of August 2, 1960, p. 4
  17. ↑ Erika-Maria Fuchs: In the lap race only Elfriede Vey . In: Cycling Week of December 8, 1959, p. 9
  18. ↑ Second title for Beryl Burton . In: Cycling Week of August 15, 1960, p. 6
personal data
SURNAME Vey, Elfriede
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Siegmann, Elfriede Anneliese (maiden name); Vey, Elfriede Anneliese (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German racing cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH February 19, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Magdeburg
DATE OF DEATH September 28, 1997
Place of death Paderborn