Günter Gottlieb

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Günter Gottlieb Road cycling
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Date of birth June 26, 1946
date of death November 27, 2018
nation Germany Democratic Republic 1949GDR German Democratic Republic of Germany
GermanyGermany 
discipline Railway (endurance) / road
Societies)
–2003
2004–2015 		Lok Halle
Skiclub Plüderhausen eV
Last updated: December 2nd, 2019

Günter Gottlieb (born June 26, 1946 ; † November 27, 2018 in Halle ) was a German cyclist who was multiple GDR champion .

Athletic career

Günter Gottlieb began cycling at the BSG Lok Halle in the early 1960s . At first he drove road races until he switched to the track in the early 1970s . He trained on the Albert Richter arena in Halle.

Between 1979 and 1983 Gottlieb was GDR champion in the standing race five times in a row , always behind his pacemaker Gerhard Rüger. He drove track races until 1986, then he concentrated again on road races, which he successfully contested in the Masters category. In 1997 he won the Senior World Cup. In 2001 he became German road champion (Masters). In 2010 he finished eighth at the UCI Masters Road World Championships in St. Johann in Tirol in the road races born between 1946 and 1948 and was sixth in the individual time trial at the European Masters 2013 . In 2016 he won a “Old Masters” standing race on the Chemnitz cycling track . In total, he achieved over 800 victories in the course of his career. Gottlieb was also active as a trainer for cyclists and triathletes .

In November 2018 Günter Gottlieb, father of two sons and a daughter, died of longstanding cancer . In his long career he won around 800 races from the youth class to the seniors.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Nico Grünke: Halle's cycling scene mourns: GDR champion Günter Gottlieb dies after a long illness. In: mz-web.de. December 5, 2018, accessed December 8, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Classic bike rides and tours - part 5. In: sport-komplett.de. Retrieved December 8, 2018 .
  3. ↑ a b Reiner Buchheim: We congratulate Günter Gottlieb on his 70th. In: radsportonline.com. Retrieved December 8, 2018 .
  4. ↑ 3rd standing race in the Chemnitz Sportforum. In: sachsen-fernsehen.de. May 24, 2016, accessed December 12, 2018 .
  5. ^ In Memoriam Günter Gottlieb. Retrieved January 3, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Gottlieb, Günter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German track cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH June 26, 1946
DATE OF DEATH November 27, 2018