Emil Schöpflin

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Emil Schöpflin Road cycling
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Date of birth July 26, 1910 in Berlin
date of death 20th century in Rosenheim
nation Germany

Emil Schöpflin (born July 26, 1910 in Berlin ; † in the 20th century in Rosenheim ) was a German  racing cyclist .

Athletic career

Schöpflin began cycling in the RV Sport 88 Berlin club. As an amateur, he was runner-up in road racing behind August Brandes . In the team time trial he stood on the podium with the Post Sports Club Berlin in 1931 and 1938. In 1932 he suffered a severe fractured skull during a race in Chemnitz , which forced him to take a long break from racing. Through strong performances he drove into the German national team for the Summer Olympics in Berlin in 1936. A tire damage in the Olympic road race threw him back early, so that he could not intervene in the final of the race and was eliminated. In 1940 he won bronze in the individual championship behind the winner Karl Kittsteiner . After the end of the Second World War he became a professional driver and, with Josef Berger as a partner, became vice-champion in two-man team driving behind Rudi Mirke and Hans Preiskeit . 1948 received a contract with the racing team Rabeneick , in which Hermann Schild also drove. He won two stages of the Tour of Germany and was sixth in the overall classification.

On September 13, 1937, he drove a new German record for over an hour without a pacemaker on the cycling track in Halle an der Saale (on Böllberger Weg) ; he covered 42.110 kilometers.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Association of German cyclists (ed.): Radsport . No. 29/1970 . Deutscher Sportverlag Kurt Stoof, Cologne 1970, p. 22 .
personal data
SURNAME Schöpflin, Emil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German racing cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH July 26, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH 20th century
Place of death Rosenheim