Erich Zawadski

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Erich Zawadski (1953)

Erich Zawadski (born March 9, 1922 in Berlin ) is a former German racing cyclist , pacemaker and trainer.

Erich Zawadski's cycling career began with cycling in 1936 in the "Obü" Berlin club (named after the road rider Otto Büchner), and in 1937 he joined the Schöneberg RV Iduna in 1910, because track cycling was in the foreground there, which suited him. Nevertheless, he also drove road races and was able to win the Berlin championship from 1937 to 1939 in the respective age group. From 1940 he started in the amateur class, interrupted by labor service in 1941. Despite a shrapnel encapsulated in his foot, Zawadski continued his career.

As a professional driver after the end of World War II, he preferred to compete in a two-man team and competed in four six-day races between 1948 and 1952 , including the first post-war six-day race in Berlin in 1949 in the “Halle am Berliner Funkturm ”. He made his first start in a six-day race in 1949 in Munich alongside Willy Funda (7th place).

In 1949 he became German vice-champion in two-man team driving, together with Heinrich Schwarzer . After his re-amateurization, he joined the BSG Empor Nord. Due to the division of Germany and the limited opportunities to race, he increasingly switched to standing races . In 1953 he was GDR champion in this discipline behind pacemaker Schondorf. In the same year he started in the GDR national team in the international peace drive , where he had to give up on the 6th stage from Karl-Marx-Stadt to Leipzig because of pneumonia, after only being 60th in the overall ranking.

After finishing his own active career as a cyclist, Zawadski set the pace in standing races and led the drivers Siegfried Wustrow and Georg Stoltze to the title of GDR champion. Together with Wustrow, Zawadski became vice world champion for amateur standers in Zurich in 1961 and was active as a pacemaker until 1970.

Trainer

In the 1960s, Zawadski worked as a trainer for the "BSG Motor Friedrichshain West" association.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sixdays fans celebrated legends from six decades on bz-berlin.de , accessed on April 30, 2011
  2. ^ Werner Ruttkus, Wolfgang Schoppe: Round gyro & Berlin air . Self-published by Werner Ruttkus, Zossen 2011, p. 403 .
  3. ↑ Cycling - Illustrated cycling sport. Official body of the Federation of German Cyclists . No. 36/1961. September 5, 1961, p. 6
  4. ↑ Cycling week. Organ of the DRSV in the DTSB . No. 36/1961. September 5, 1961. p. 5.
personal data
SURNAME Zawadski, Erich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German racing cyclist, pacemaker and trainer
DATE OF BIRTH March 9, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin