Fritz yearling

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Fritz Yearling (r.) With Horst Tüller as master in 1956

Fritz Yearling (born January 7, 1923 in Germau ; † 2005 there ) was a German racing cyclist .

Yearling (nickname "Fritze"), born in the Soviet Union, came to Germany with his parents as a child, more precisely to Pallasstrasse in Berlin, in the immediate vicinity of the Sports Palace . His cycling inclinations were encouraged by his father, who gave him his first racing bike. At 17 he joined the Grün-Weiß association . His first attempts on the track of the Sports Palace ended with his words “with a good portion of wedges” by his comrades, as he “cleared” them off the track several times due to his unsafe driving style. He justified his many attempts to break away later by saying that he did not like to "drive in large groups". Nevertheless, in 1943 and 1944, the first victories in track races occurred. After the Second World War , through which he lost his father and sister, he became a professional driver in 1946.

In 1948 Fritz Yearling was two-time East Zone Champion for professionals in the single pursuit and in the hourly individual driving. Together with Otto Ziege , he won several races in two-man team driving and started two six-day races in the hall at the Berlin radio tower . In the GDR he was reamateurised, he now started for the BSG unit Berliner Bär . Twice, in 1953 and 1954, he was GDR runner-up in the pursuit, behind Gerhard Löffler .

Yearling was GDR champion five times: in 1954 with the four-wheeler and in 1954 and 1955 in the team time trial . In 1955 he was champion in two-man team driving with Ronny Maraun and in 1956 with Horst Tüller .

Between 1952 and 1956 Fritz Yearling won six stages in GDR tours . In 1955 he won the final stage from Cottbus to Berlin, when he reached the finish in the Walter Ulbricht Stadium after a long solo journey as a soloist and was celebrated by 40,000 spectators. He had one of his last successes in 1958, when he took second place in the Werner-Seelenbinder-Halle with the brothers Günter and Horst Oldenburg in the “1001 round” race.

Web links

Commons : Fritz Jahresling  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Illustrated Cycling Express . No. 6/1948 . Express-Verlag, Berlin 1948, p. 3 .
personal data
SURNAME Yearling, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German racing cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH January 7, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Germau
DATE OF DEATH 2005
Place of death Germau