Fredy Schmidtke

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Fredy Schmidtke Road cycling
Fredy Schmidtke on a postage stamp (1988)
To person
Date of birth July 1, 1961
date of death 1st December 2017
nation GermanyGermany Germany
discipline Train (short term)
End of career 1986
Most important successes
Olympic games
1984 gold - 1000 meter time trial
Last updated: December 2, 2017

Fredy Schmidtke (born July 1, 1961 in Cologne-Worringen ; † December 1, 2017 in Dormagen ) was a German track cyclist and Olympic champion in cycling .

biography

Fredy Schmidtke completed an apprenticeship as a pipe fitter after school and then signed up for four years in the armed forces , where he served in a sports promotion group . He was two-time German youth champion in 1977 and 1978. In 1979 he won five national titles and was junior world champion in the 1000 meter time trial in Buenos Aires at the end of the year . With the German team he won bronze in the team pursuit .

In 1982 Schmidtke won the world championship in the same discipline. In 1981 and 1982 Schmidtke was also vice world champion in the tandem race of amateurs, each time together with Dieter Giebken . In 1983 the two took third place together; Schmidtke was due to doping with ephedrine disqualified . However, this decision was revised in November of the same year by the World Cycling Federation Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI). In 1984 he took part in the Olympic Games in Los Angeles and was Olympic champion in the 1000-meter time trial, in the sprint he finished eighth.

After the Olympic victory, Schmidtke neglected training. In 1985 he was only tenth in the time trial at the German track championships in Mannheim and was subsequently deleted from the national team. He ended his career and opened a sports shop, with which he went bankrupt after a short time. In this context, a quote from him has come down to us: “I sold a squash ball in the morning, it got a little quieter at lunchtime.” In 1988 he tried a sporty comeback, but only came eleventh in the time trial at the German track championships in Stuttgart . After the final end of his sports career, he first ran a sporting goods store and later worked in his old job at a subsidiary of Bayer , also to be able to pay off his high debts.

Schmidtke started for SG EC / Bayer Köln-Worringen (today: SG Köln-Worringen ).

On December 1, 2017, Fredy Schmidtke died as a result of a heart attack . He left behind his wife and two sons. Schmidtke was buried in an urn on December 15, 2017 in the old cemetery in Zons .

successes

1979

  • World Champion Junior world champion - 1000 meter time trial, sprint

1980

  • MaillotAllemania.svgGerman amateur champion - 1000 meter time trial, sprint, tandem (with Dieter Giebken )

1981

1982

1983

1984

  • gold Olympic champion - 1000 meter time trial
  • MaillotAllemania.svg German amateur champion - sprint, 1000 meter time trial

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Obituary: Fredy Schmidtke. In: rp-online.de. December 4, 2017. Retrieved December 5, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Le Monde Cyclisme No. 125 / Jan. 1984
  3. ↑ Cycling4Fans - Doping: S. In: cycling4fans.de. Retrieved December 5, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Fat Fredy . In: Der Spiegel . No. 49 , 1985 ( online ).
  5. ↑ Olympic champion: “Should I mourn forever?” In: Der Spiegel . No. 29 , 1996 ( online ).
  6. ^ Mourning for Fredy Schmidtke. In: bdr-medienservice.de. December 2, 2017, accessed December 2, 2017 .
  7. ^ Olympic track champion Fredy Schmidtke has died. In: radsport-news.com. December 2, 2017, accessed December 2, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Schmidtke, Fredy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German racing cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH July 1, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne-Worringen
DATE OF DEATH 1st December 2017
Place of death Dormagen