Frank Kühn

Frank Kühn (born February 25, 1962 in Berlin ) is a German racing cyclist .

Athletic career

Frank Kühn began cycling in 1974 in the BSG Lok Schöneweide, later he moved to TSC Berlin . He was twice GDR champion in track cycling , in 1981 with Dieter Stein in the two-man team and in 1982 in the Berlin winter track races in the single pursuit . His coach at the time was the multiple GDR champion Siegfried Köhler .

During the GDR era, Frank Kühn switched to road cycling and won, among others, the Tour of Saxony in 1988 and the Tour of Greece in 1989. In 1990, he drove the International Peace Tour in 1990 with the last GDR peace team and was ninth in the overall ranking. Like almost all road drivers in the GDR, Kühn started on the Werner-Seelenbinder-Halle track in Berlin. There he won the international two-man team championship in 1986 with Christian Jäger as a partner.

successes

1981

• GDR champions - two-man team driving (with Dieter Stein )

1982

• GDR Champion - Single Pursuit (Winterbahn)

1984

• a stage tour of Lower Saxony

1988

• Overall ranking of the Sachsen-Rundfahrt

1989

• Overall ranking Tour of Greece

1990

• Six days Nouméa (with Andreas Beikirch )

Individual evidence

1. ^ German Cycling Association of the GDR (ed.): The cyclist . No. 18/1988 . Berlin 1988, p. 3 .
2. ↑ Bike - GDR - championships (track - two - team driving / men). In: sport-komplett.de. Retrieved November 23, 2019 . 
3. ↑ Bike - GDR - championships (winter track - men). In: sport-komplett.de. Retrieved November 23, 2019 . 
4. ^ German Cycling Association of the GDR (ed.): The cyclist . No. 4/1982 . Berlin 1982, p. 1 .
5. ↑ Maik Märtin: 50 years of Course de la Paix . Agency Construct, Leipzig 1998, p. 244 .
6. ^ German Cycling Association of the GDR (ed.): The cyclist . No. 49/1986 . Berlin 1986, p. 3 .

Web links

• Frank Kühn in the Radsportseiten.net database
• RV-Iduna, Frank Kühn ( Memento from August 28, 2009 in the Internet Archive )