Günther Pankoke

Günther Pankoke

Günther Pankoke (1956)
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Date of birth	August 13, 1925
nation	Germany
discipline	Road / train
Last updated: August 26, 2018

Günther Pankoke (born August 13, 1925 in Bielefeld ) is a former German cyclist .

Athletic career

After the Second World War he started as an amateur for the RC Zugvogel Bielefeld club . He finished the 1947 season on the road as an amateur with a total of five wins and four second places. In the annual ranking of amateurs in all German zones, he came sixth with this record. Günther Pankoke was a professional racing driver from 1948 to 1956. He was twice German champion in two-man team driving , in 1949 with Werner Holthöfer , in 1953 with Lothar Ehmer .

In 1954 Pankoke was German runner-up in road racing. In the same year he started at the road world championship in Solingen and finished last by crossing the finish line hand in hand with Franz Reitz , the only German driver who was still in the race besides him. Out of a total of 71 drivers, only 21 made it to the finish. In addition, Pankoke has won several stages on the Germany Tour in various years . In 1955 he finished seventh overall. In the same year he started as the first German professional after the Second World War in the Tour de France and finished 37th in the overall standings as well as in the Vuelta , where he was 41st.

After the end of his active cycling career, Pankoke opened the Zur Etappe pub in his hometown of Bielefeld .

successes

Street

1948

• one stage of the Green Belt of the IRA (Tour of Germany)

1949

• one stage of the Green Belt of the IRA (Tour of Germany)

1950

• a stage tour of Germany

1951

• a stage tour of Germany

1952

• a stage tour of Germany

1955

• a stage tour of Germany

train

1949

• German champion - two-man team driving (with Werner Holthöfer )

1953

• German champion - two-man team driving (with Lothar Ehmer )

Teams

• 1948-1951 Bismarck
• 1951 Groene Leeuw
• 1952–1954 Ruberg
• 1954 SKF
• 1955-1956 Ruberg

Web links

• Günther Pankoke in the Radsportseiten.net database
• Günther Pankoke in the ProCyclingStats.com database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Interest group for cycling (ed.): The cycling . No. 3/4/1948 . Sportdienst Verlag Zademack and Noster, Cologne, p. 4 .
2. ↑ Super User: RC Sprintax - Back to the Future. In: sprintax.de. April 2, 2016, accessed August 27, 2018 .