Falk Boden

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Falk Boden (2019)

Falk Boden (born January 20, 1960 in Elsterwerda ) is a former German cyclist .

Athletic career

Falk Boden spent his childhood and youth in the small Saxon town of Kamenz , where he also started cycling in 1974 in the ASV Vorwärts training center there. With increasing performance he was delegated to the children's and youth sports school in Frankfurt (Oder) and trained at the ASV sports club there, the ASK Vorwärts Frankfurt (Oder). He won a GDR championship title in 1975, he took the title in the team time trial on the road in the youth class B. At the children's and youth spartakiade in 1977, Boden took second place in the individual road race. Shortly afterwards he won the 70 km time trial with his team at the Junior World Championship, which he succeeded again in 1978.

In 1979 Falk Boden celebrated his first senior world championship title when he was able to triumph in the 100 km team time trial. In addition, a year later he won silver in the same discipline at the Olympic Games in Moscow . With these successes behind him, he won the best young driver in the GDR tour in 1980. In 1981, Boden again won gold in the team time trial. Boden celebrated his greatest success as a single driver in 1983, when he surprisingly won the Peace Drive (he finished fourth in 1985 and 1990). In 1983 he started at the UCI Road World Championships and was classified eighth in the amateurs road race. In 1989 Boden won his third World Championship gold in the team time trial, and a year later he added silver again. On the road, he finished third in the Tour d'Algérie in 1988 .

Boden during the Thuringia Tour in 1981

After the fall of the Wall, the former captain of the NVA switched to the professional camp and signed a contract with the Festina cycling team . In 1991, Boden was German road champion in Wetzikon , Switzerland . In 1993 he was fired from his team because he had supported competitor Miguel Induráin at the Giro d'Italia .

Professional

Boden studied sports and obtained his diploma as a sports teacher in 1995 . He works as an educator in the boarding school of the sports high school in Frankfurt an der Oder.

successes

  • World champion team time trial 1979, 1981 and 1989
  • Junior world champion team time trial 1977 and 1978
  • GDR individual time trial champions in 1979 and 1980
  • GDR road race championship 1982
  • GDR master criterion 1980
  • International Peace Tour 1983
  • GDR tour 1980 and 1984

literature

Web links

Commons : Falk Boden  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rene Jacobs et al. (Ed.): Velo . Dendermonde 1984, p. 131 .
  2. ↑ Wolfgang Taubmann, Johannes Zimoch, Wilfried Schulz (eds.): Stand up again and again . Spotless-Verlag (cooperation), Berlin 2007, p. 279 .
personal data
SURNAME Boden, Falk
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German racing cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH January 20, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Elsterwerda