Franz Wimmer (cyclist)

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Franz Wimmer Road cycling
Franz Wimmer (1954)
Franz Wimmer (1954)
To person
Date of birth August 25, 1932
nation AustriaAustria Austria
discipline train
Most important successes

Austrian State champion single pursuit 1951
Austrian. State champion single pursuit 1952
World amateur hour record 1954
Austrian. State champion team pursuit 1956
Austrian. State champion tandem race 1956

Franz Wimmer (2016)

Franz Wimmer (born August 25, 1932 in Vienna ) is a former Austrian amateur cyclist .

Career

Franz Wimmer worked as a butcher in his parents' business. He began his amateur cycling career in 1948 at the age of 16.

On August 15, 1951, he became Austrian national champion for the first time - in the single pursuit . At the UCI track world championships in 1951 in Milan on the Vigorelli track , he won in the round of 16 against the previous year's world champion, but was eliminated in the quarter-finals against the Belgian Raphael Glorieux , who drove the fastest time in this run. The following year he defended his title as Austrian national champion in the single pursuit.

Wimmer took part for Austria in the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki . He finished 13th in the team pursuit . He had to give up in the individual and team time trials. On December 19, 1954, Franz Wimmer set three world records for cycling on the track in the Vélodrome d'Hiver in Paris - the first world records in the history of Austrian cycling: with 43.337 km, he set the amateur hour record and had throughput times of 13 min 45 s at 10 km and from 27 min 34 s at 20 km. On this occasion, Mayor Franz Jonas presented him with the Sports Badge of Honor of the City of Vienna.

In 1956 Wimmer was Austrian national champion both in tandem races (with partner Arthur Mannsbarth ) and in team pursuit . He was a participant in the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne . In the team pursuit he reached 10th place after a serious mistake by Rudolf Maresch . In the road race over 187.7 km, he finished 30th in 5 h 27 min 28 s with an average speed of 35.25 km / h. Franz Wimmer ended his amateur career at the end of the 1957 season. From 1948 to 1957 he drove a total of 504 races. He won 170 of them, finished 2nd in 98 races and 3rd in 41 races.

Franz Wimmer has lived in Reith near Kitzbühel since the 1990s . On September 4, 1995, 41 years after his amateur hour record, he wanted to test his fitness again after starting cycling again in 1992. In the Vienna Ferry-Dusika-Hallenstadion he achieved an impressive hourly performance of 41.4 km.

Web links

Commons : Franz Wimmer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Back on the bike after 40 years . In: Kitzbüheler Anzeiger . September 16, 1995.
  2. ↑ a b Franz Wimmer cycled a world record . In: Wiener Zeitung . No. 295 , December 21, 1954, pp. 6 .
  3. ↑ a b Elite Men - Title Bahn. Austrian Cycling Association, August 7, 2014, accessed on July 13, 2017 .
  4. ^ Franz Wimmer in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original ), accessed on July 13, 2017.
  5. ↑ World record driver Wimmer . In: The press . December 22, 1954, p. 10 .
  6. ^ Matthias Brändle on the trail of Franz Wimmer. Austrian Cycling Association, October 26, 2014, accessed on July 13, 2017 .
  7. ^ Vienna 1955: reports from May 1955. City hall correspondence , accessed on July 13, 2017 .
  8. ↑ Olympic Games Melbourne: Our pursuit teams already eliminated . In: Wiener Zeitung . No. 282 , December 4, 1956, pp. 6 .
personal data
SURNAME Wimmer, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH August 25, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna