Gerald Mortag
Gerald Mortag (2014) | |
To person | |
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Date of birth | November 8, 1958 |
nation | German Democratic Republic |
discipline | Railway (endurance) / road |
height | 1.75 meters |
Racing weight | 70 kilograms |
End of career | 1985 |
Most important successes | |
Team (s) as sporting director | |
1994-2009 | Team Köstritzer |
Team (s) as coach | |
since 1987 |
SG Wismut Gera / SSV Gera / Thuringian Cycling Association |
Last updated: December 11, 2017 |
Gerald Mortag (born November 8, 1958 in Gera ) is a German cycling trainer and former German cyclist who started for the GDR .
Athletic career
As a child, Gerald Mortag mainly played soccer . After he had successfully participated in the elimination for the Little Peace Tour, cycling trainers noticed him and he started cycling training at the BSG Empor St. Gangloff. A short time later he was brought to the training center SG Wismut Gera . He won his first GDR championship title in 1975 in the single pursuit of the Youth A class, and he was also able to win the title at the Children's and Youth Partakiad in the same year.
As a track cyclist , Mortag was three times world champion in the 4000 meter team pursuit for the GDR (1977, 1978, 1979). At the 1980 Summer Olympics , he won the silver medal in the same discipline with Uwe Unterwalder , Volker Winkler and Matthias Wiegand , for which he was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit. He also won four GDR championship titles on the winter track with SG Wismut Gera : 1977 and 1980 in two-man team driving, 1982 in team pursuit and 1983 in single pursuit. On the Werner-Seelenbinder-Halle track in Berlin, he won the "International Two-Team Championship" in 1982 with Lutz Haueisen as a partner. In 1984 he achieved another victory, this time with Jörg Köhler as a partner.
Activity as a trainer
In 1987 he received his trainer diploma at the DHfK Leipzig . Until 2009 he was the sporting director of the Thuringian Energy Team together with Jens Lang . He is the chairman of the Radsport Gera eV sponsorship group as well as a trainer and base manager at SSV Gera 1990 .
Among his protégés were cyclists such as Marcel Barth , Eric Baumann , Sascha Damrow , John Degenkolb , André Greipel , Robert Retschke , Andreas Schillinger , Sebastian Siedler and Robert Wagner .
successes
- 1976
- Junior World Champion - Team Pursuit (with Detlef Macha , Jürgen Lippold and Olaf Hill )
- Junior World Championship - Single Pursuit
- 1977
- Amateur World Champion - Team Pursuit (with Norbert Dürpisch , Volker Winkler and Matthias Wiegand )
- 1978
- Amateur World Champion - Team Pursuit (with Uwe Unterwalder , Volker Winkler and Matthias Wiegand )
- 1979
- Amateur World Champion - Team Pursuit (with Lutz Haueisen , Volker Winkler and Axel Grosser )
- 1980
- Olympic silver Olympic Games - team pursuit (with Volker Winkler , Matthias Wiegand and Uwe Unterwalder )
- 1983
- GDR champions - two-man team driving (with Jörg Köhler )
- 1984
- Friendship competitions - team pursuit (with Bernd Dittert , Mario Hernig , Volker Winkler and Carsten Wolf )
Web links
- Gerald Mortag in the Radsportseiten.net database
- Gerald Mortag in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
Individual evidence
- ^ German Cycling Association of the GDR (ed.): The cyclist . No. 32/1975 . Berlin 1975, p. 2 .
- ↑ a b Cycling coach Gerald Mortag celebrates his 50th birthday today. In: ssv-gera.de. November 8, 2008, accessed December 11, 2017 .
- ^ German Cycling Association of the GDR (ed.): The cyclist . No. 30/1979 . Berlin 1979, p. 3 .
- ↑ Neues Deutschland , August 22, 1980, p. 4.
- ↑ GDR cycling championships - winter track
- ↑ The chair remains with Gerald Mortag , Förderkreis Radsport eV, February 23, 2008
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Mortag, Gerald |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German cyclist |
DATE OF BIRTH | November 8, 1958 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Gera |