Fritz Scheller (cyclist)

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Fritz Scheller (born September 22, 1914 in Erlangen ; † 1997 ) was a German racing cyclist .

1932 and 1936 Fritz Scheller was German road champion of amateurs . In 1936 he started the road race at the Olympic Games in Berlin and finished fourth. In 1937 he was a third time German road champion, and at the road world championships in Copenhagen in the same year he won the bronze medal. As an amateur, Scheller won the Harz Tour in 1934 and 1936 .

In 1938 Scheller became a professional . In 1939 he won the Harz Tour again , and in the Großdeutschlandfahrt he finished third overall. In 1940 he was third in the German road championship and won Rund um die Hainleite . After the Second World War he became German master in the criterion in 1946 and in 1948 took third place in the overall ranking of the IRA's Green Belt , a predecessor of the Germany tour. In the summer of 1950 he wanted to say goodbye to active sport after the Tour of Germany with a good result. His training was based on this goal from the start of the season. However, a serious fall on the 10th stage led to the immediate end of his career.

After the end of his active cycling career, Fritz Scheller opened a bicycle shop in Nuremberg and another in Hof , held races on the bicycle race track at Reichelsdorfer Keller and made a name for himself in the standing sport . To this day, Scheller holds the record with three German championship titles in road racing.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Interest group for cycling (ed.): The cycling . No. 1/1950 . Sportdienst Verlag Zademack and Noster, Cologne 1950, p. 2 .
  2. ↑ Anniversary on the Radrennbahn am Reichelsdorfer Keller on stayer.de

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SURNAME Scheller, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German racing cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH September 22, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH gain
DATE OF DEATH 1997