Elisabeth Eichholz

Starting list from the 1960 World Cycling Championships

Elisabeth Eichholz , born as Elisabeth Kleinhans , (born November 12, 1939 in Wolmirstedt ) is a former German cyclist who competed for the GDR .

Elisabeth Kleinhans grew up in Loitsche , where her parents worked in agriculture, and began cycling in autumn 1958 . She contested her first races the following year for the company sports association Lokomotive Magdeburg . In 1959 she won the Rund um Berlin competition, which was advertised for women, ahead of her long-time competitor Elfriede Fey . With Rund um Sebnitz and Rund um die Hainleite she won two other traditional German races in 1960.

In the run-up to the 1960 World Championships , the 1.60-meter-tall Elisabeth Kleinhans was delegated to SC Leipzig and pulled together with other top riders from former racing cyclist Otto Busse into a squad aimed at the World Championship, which had a positive effect on her further development. At the world championship on the Sachsenring near Hohenstein-Ernstthal , she won the bronze medal. The following year she confirmed her class with a seventh place at the World Championships in Douglas . After that, GDR athletes did not receive an entry visa to western countries, so that they could not take part in a world championship again until 1965 in San Sebastian , where they became world champion. In 1961 she was GDR road race champion for the first time , in 1962 and 1963 she won the title in the single pursuit and in 1964 in the time trial on the track .

In 1963 the athlete married the Leipzig cyclist Dieter Eichholz. In 1966 she ended her career because her son was born. After the baby year, the trained industrial tailor began a distance learning course to become an “educator with teaching qualification” and then worked as a training instructor in a Leipzig clothing factory. She then worked as a teacher for sports and school gardens in Schönebeck until 1998 .

literature

• GDR sports newspaper Deutsches Sportecho , issue of September 6, 1965 with biography

Web links

• Elisabeth Eichholz in the database of Radsportseiten.net
• sport-komplett.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Buchheim: World Champion Elisabeth Eichholz. In: radsportonline.com. Retrieved March 6, 2020 .