Emanuel Raasch

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Emanuel Raasch Road cycling
Emanuel Raasch (2014)
Emanuel Raasch (2014)
To person
Nickname emu
Date of birth November 16, 1955
nation Germany Democratic Republic 1949GDR German Democratic Republic of Germany
GermanyGermany 
discipline sprint
Driver type Train (short distance)
height 1.78 meters
Racing weight 71 kilograms
To the team
Current team SC Dynamo Berlin
Most important successes
UCI track world championships
1992 World Champion - tandem race (with Eyk Pokorny )
Last updated: October 12, 2019
Emanuel Raasch at the GDR championships in 1977 in the Werner-Seelenbinder-Halle

Emanuel "Emu" Raasch (born November 16, 1955 in Burg ) is a former German racing cyclist and current cycling trainer .

Athletic career

Emanuel Raasch began his cycling career at the age of 14 with the BSG unit Genthin, switched to SC Dynamo Magdeburg in 1970 (where he already trained in short-distance competitions), and later switched to SC Dynamo Berlin . He was already very successful in the youth classes (multiple winner of the children and youth partakiads and youth championships in the GDR).

In the course of his career he was three times GDR champion, twice in the time trial over 1000 meters (1975, 1976) and once in the sprint (1977). Several times he took second and third places at the UCI track world championships . His greatest success was winning the World Cup in tandem with Eyk Pokorny in Stuttgart in 1991. He was also eight times GDR and German champion and recorded 18 Grand Prix victories. In 1975 and 1976 he won the GDR Grand Prix in the sprint. In 1976 he won the overall ranking at the Grand Prix of the Socialist Countries .

In 1995 he played his eleventh World Cup at the age of 39 .

Raasch had declared his career to be over in 1984 after his disappointing performances at the GDR rail championships. In addition, there were some decisions made by the cycling officials in the GDR, which he perceived as disadvantages. So z. B. 1987, when he won seven out of eight races in the 1000-meter time trial in the GDR, but was not considered for the world championship. In 1981 he wanted to take a break from competition due to some illnesses, but the officials refused.

Raasch works today as a trainer and looks after a. a. the world champion Robert Förstemann (until 2016).

Trivia

Raasch played a supporting role in the 1998 German feature film Run Lola Run . At the German Bodybuilding Championship of the National Athletic Comitee (NAC) 2011 in Cuxhaven and at the International East German Bodybuilding Championship of the NAC 2019 in Fürstenwalde , he won the "Body over 50" class.

successes

1975
1976
  • Germany Democratic Republic 1949GDR GDR champions - 1000 meter time trial
1977
1978
1979
1982
1991
1992
1993
  • GermanyGermanyGerman champions (amateurs) - tandem race (with Markus Nagel )
1994

Web links

Commons : Emanuel Raasch  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b German Cycling Association of the GDR (Ed.): The cyclist . No. 46/1973 . Berlin, S. 1 .
  2. ^ German Cycling Association of the GDR (ed.): The cyclist . No. 30/1979 . Berlin 1979, p. 3 .
  3. ↑ Hilmar Bürger: The almost 40-year-old Emanuel Raasch is contesting his eleventh World Championships: successfully changed saddles. In: berliner-zeitung.de. August 1, 2017, accessed August 1, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Velo . No. 10/1994 . Velomedien AG, Zurich, p. 8-9 .
  5. ^ Trainer - Robert Förstemann. In: robert-foerstemann.de. Retrieved August 1, 2017 .
  6. ↑ Editor: Robert Förstemann announces a break of several months: “Start from scratch”. In: velomotion.de. February 3, 2016, accessed February 3, 2016 .
  7. ↑ imdb.com
  8. ↑ Report NAC German Championship 2011 in Cuxhaven. In: body-xtreme.de. Retrieved August 1, 2017 .
  9. ↑ Results May 4th, 2019. In: NAC Germany. Retrieved May 9, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Raasch, Emanuel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Raasch, Emu (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cyclist and trainer
DATE OF BIRTH November 16, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Castle (near Magdeburg)