Franz Inthaler

Franz Inthaler (born September 26, 1940 in Vienna ; † January 14, 2004 in Gießhübl ) was an Austrian cyclist .

His older brother Fritz Inthaler (* 1937) was mainly active in cycling in the 1950s and 1960s and took part in the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome .

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Franz Inthaler was born on September 26, 1940 in Vienna and took part in adult cycling races from the late 1950s. Among other things, he came first in the second stage of the Vienna-Rabenstein-Gresten-Vienna race , which was the most important Austrian cycle race after the Tour of Austria ; closely followed by the eventual winner of the race, Kurt Schweiger . Nothing is known about further results in the following. While Fritz took part in the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome in the following year , the younger of the two is likely to have been used mainly at national level. In the 3rd stage of the Tour of Austria in 1963 he was able to record a fifth place; a year earlier he had finished 42nd in the overall ranking. He was able to record smaller successes in 1964 when he finished third in the eighth stage of the Austria Tour and, as a driver of Union Peterquelle , sponsored by the Styrian mineral water bottler Peterquelle , completed the Burgenland Tour in second place overall. Furthermore, he was Austrian national champion in the team time trial over 100 kilometers that year . In 1965 he completed the second stage of Vienna-Rabenstein-Gresten-Vienna in second place behind Walter Malicek and made it into the top ten drivers in four of the eight stages of the Tour of Austria. In the final ranking it was only enough for 17th place. He was also able to defend his title as Austrian national champion in the team time trial over 100 kilometers this year.

A year later, Inthaler successfully started the Tour of Austria, finished third on the 1st stage, even won the second stage from Vienna to Gleisdorf , but was not able to take the top positions after that. In the end he had to settle for twelfth place in the overall standings, the best result of his career. He was able to celebrate Inthaler's only notable success on the track in 1967 when he won the national championship title together with Heinz Oberst, who was very successful at the time, in a two-man team . On the road, in 1967, although he was only one of the top ten drivers in one stage, he still came in 16th place in the overall ranking of the Tour of Austria. Before that, he had already finished the first stage of Vienna-Rabenstein-Gresten-Wien in third place this year and also took this place in the overall standings. The following year, 1968, was largely mixed. While he was the Austrian amateur national champion that year and also finished third in the Vienna-Rabenstein-Gresten-Vienna race, it was not so easy for the then 27-year-old on the Tour of Austria in 1968. With over one and a half hours behind the winner Jan Krekels from the Netherlands , Inthaler only came in 33rd place in the overall ranking. The following year went a little better, in which he was at least 19th after finishing the 8th stage in fifth place. Although he was in the top 10 twice, he did not get more than 23rd place in the overall ranking at the 1970 Tour of Austria.

At the beginning of the 1970s Inthaler was able to achieve several national successes again, for example he was third in the 3rd stage of the Tour of Austria (42nd overall) and won the Tour of Burgenland for the first time. One year later he emerged as the winner of the Burgenland Tour and also finished the second stage of the Vienna-Rabenstein-Gresten-Vienna race in second place. During the Austria Tour in 1972, Inthaler did not drive through for the first time and had to give up. After second place in the first stage and third place in stage two, Inthaler achieved overall victory in the Vienna-Rabenstein-Gresten-Vienna race in 1973. With a fourth place in the first stage (Vienna- Linz ), he successfully entered the Having started the 25th Tour of Austria, the 32-year-old was no longer able to take the top positions and was only 35th in the final ranking. After coming second in the Austrian elite road cycling championships in 1974 , Inthaler slowly let his active career as an athlete come to an end. Nothing is known about later results of the native Viennese.

On January 14, 2004, Inthaler died at the age of 63 in the community of Gießhübl in Lower Austria .

Web links

• Franz Inthaler in the Radsportseiten.net database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Franz Inthaler in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original ), accessed on June 13, 2019.
2. ↑ Tour of Austria 1963 , accessed on June 4, 2019
3. ↑ ^{a b} Archive Austria Tour - Austrian Participants (AZ) , accessed on June 4, 2019
4. ↑ Tour of Austria 1964 , accessed on June 4, 2019
5. ↑ Burgenland Tour 1964 , accessed on June 4, 2019
6. ↑ ^{a b} Elite Men - Title Strasse-Querfeldein , accessed on June 4, 2019
7. ↑ ^{a b} Tour of Austria 1965 , accessed on June 4, 2019
8. ↑ ^{a b} Tour of Austria 1966 , accessed on June 4, 2019
9. ↑ Tour of Austria 1967 , accessed on June 4, 2019
10. ↑ Tour of Austria 1968 , accessed on June 4, 2019
11. ↑ Tour of Austria 1969 , accessed on June 4, 2019
12. ↑ Tour of Austria 1970 , accessed on June 4, 2019
13. ↑ Tour of Austria 1971 , accessed on June 4, 2019