Emanuel Kudela

Emanuel Kudela

Emanuel Kudela (ca.1906)
To person
Date of birth	July 26, 1876
date of death	September 22, 1920
nation	Empire of Austria
discipline	Track cycling / road cycling
Most important successes
Championship of Bohemia 1898: - Sprint

Emanuel Kudela (born July 26, 1876 in Teplitz according to baptism entry on June 22, 1875 in Teplitz as Emanuel Kudella ; † September 22, 1920 in Berlin ) was an Austrian cyclist . He was one of the first cyclists from Bohemia to be internationally successful as a professional cyclist .

Life

Emanuel Kudela was born in Teplitz in 1875 as the son of the bookbinder Joseph Kudella and his wife Franziska Heran. He was a trained businessman. At the age of 19 he began his cycling career, initially on the road , but soon switched to the more lucrative track . In 1898 he became the Bohemian sprint champion . Because of the better training and competition conditions, he moved to Berlin. There he married the accountant Else Frieda Grete Block on March 21, 1911 in front of the registry office in Steglitz.

Kudela was particularly successful in tandem races , for example together with Paul Mündner . In 1906 he took second place with the American Woody Headspeth in a 24-hour race at the Steglitz Velodrome .

Kudela was known for his “outstanding entrepreneurial spirit”, which took him to races in many countries, including South America and North Africa. In races he was regarded as a clever tactician, but also as a “daredevil” who “in the heat of the moment did not shrink from a little elbow parade”. From 1905 to 1909, measured by income on German railways, Kudela was the most successful foreign sprinter behind Thorvald Ellegaard , and from 1907 to 1911 he was the most successful. He also started six-day races , for example the first in Berlin in 1909 and 1919, when he and Walter Rütt finished seventh.

Emanuel Kudela died in 1920 after falling in a tandem race on the Berlin Olympic track , which he competed with Oscar Schwab . He was buried in the Steglitz cemetery.

literature

• Sport-Album der Rad-Welt 1906, 5th year, Berlin 1907, p. 32–34

Web links

• Emanuel Kudela in the Radsportseiten.net database
• Emanuel Kudela on cycling4fans.de

Individual evidence

1. ^ De Kampioen , June 1, 1906
2. ↑ Live into the Past - Sixdays Stories (1). Live Radsport.ch, January 9, 2008, accessed April 6, 2014 . 
3. ^ Cyclisme sur Piste - Berlin. Les-Sports.info, accessed April 7, 2014 .