Georg Sternberg

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Georg Sternberg as a pacemaker ahead of Karl Kaminski in a stalker race.

Georg Sternberg (born September 17, 1928 in Berlin ; † October 14, 2017 there ) was a German racing cyclist and pacemaker .

Athletic career

In 1944, Sternberg began cycling in Berlin and joined the RV Sturmvogel association in 1900. Well-known athletes such as Heiner Schwarzer and Harry Saager were also members there. After the Second World War he moved to Derby Pankow, a club in the north of Berlin. In 1949 Georg Sternberg won the East Zone Championship in road racing . Sternberg achieved a total of over 500 victories, mainly in track races (in the post-war years often on cinder tracks) and in circuit races on the road.

Then "Orje" set the pace in standing races and won the GDR championship five times, leading Thomas Huschke and Karl Kaminski to championship honors. He won further medals at the GDR standing championships with Manfred Schulz, Hans-Jürgen Stupka and Frank Herzog . He won the international standing championship in Berlin on the track in Berlin's Werner-Seelenbinder-Halle in 1966 with Ulrich Mantey and in 1980 with Jens Kunath in the role.

In 1998 he won the "Over 70" World Cup at the Masters in St. Johann in Tirol .

Sternberg died in 2017 after a long and serious illness at the age of 89.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Werner Ruttkus : Georg Sternberg died. In: brv-radsport.berlin. October 14, 2017. Retrieved November 17, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Berliner Radsport , 10 / October 2008  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 404 kB)@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.bdr-radsport.de  
personal data
SURNAME Sternberg, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German racing cyclist and pacemaker
DATE OF BIRTH September 17, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH October 14, 2017
Place of death Berlin