Gerd Audehm

Gerd Audehm (born March 14, 1968 in Annahütte ) is a former German cyclist .

Life

Audehm was born in Annahütte and grew up in Senftenberg in Brandenburg . He attended a GDR sports boarding school in Cottbus and became a racing cyclist in the GDR performance class. He achieved his first successes in 1988 on the Tour of Austria . After the fall of the Berlin Wall , he joined the Nürnberger team , won the International Rhineland-Palatinate Tour in 1991 and 1992, and became a new professional member of Team Telekom in 1993 , where he stayed until 1996. He was considered a reliable " water carrier " for the stars. In 1998 he ended his career.

On July 8, 2000, he collapsed with acute ventricular fibrillation while exercising after being diagnosed with myocarditis in 1998. When he woke up from a coma months later, he had suffered hypoxic brain damage due to the lack of oxygen in the brain . As a result, Gerd Audehm's memory is severely disturbed. As a care case, he moved back to his parents' house from his home in Eynatten in Belgium . He has a daughter from the now divorced marriage.

In 2004 Regina Schilling made a documentary about him.

Important successes

• 1988 stage winner at the Tour of Austria
• 1991 Winner of the International Rhineland-Palatinate Tour
• 1992 winner of the International Rhineland-Palatinate Tour
• 1993 participant in the Tour de France
• 1994 participant in the Tour de France

Web links

• Gerd Audehm in the Radsportseiten.net database
• "The former professional cyclist Audehm a care case" (article FAZ 23 January 2001)