Gerd Thiemichen

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Gerd Thiemichen (born December 6, 1921 ) is a former German cyclist and national champion in cycling .

Thiemichen began his career as a cyclist in 1936. He drove road and track races .

In the 1949 East Zone Tour , Thiemichen took tenth place overall. In 1950 he won the GDR championship title in the 4000 meter team pursuit together with Otto Busse , Helmut Richard Körnig and Rolf Thieme .

From 1951 Thiemichen drove stayer races . In 1952 he won the Leipzig City Prize , the first race in the GDR, which ran over 100 km. In 1954 he was the most successful stalker in the country with 14 wins in 25 endurance races. At the state championships of the stayers, Thiemichen won two second places in his career. In 1954 he drove his last stand-up race, he started for the BSG Chemie Leipzig .

In the following season, Thiemichen started as a pacemaker.

Thiemichen worked for several years as a youth coach at ASK Vorwärts Leipzig. After that, I was a volunteer organizer of track races in Leipzig for many years.

literature

  • Der Radsportler, issue of March 15, 1968, page 6, From rail and road riders to pacemakers: GERD THIEMICHEN , publisher: German Cycling Association of the GDR

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ German Cycling Association of the GDR (ed.): The cyclist . No. 48/1987 . Berlin 1987, p. 7 .
  2. ^ Presidium of the Cycling Section of the GDR (Ed.): Cycling Week . No. 49/1954 . Sportverlag, Berlin 1954, p. 4 .
personal data
SURNAME Thiemichen, Gerd
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German racing cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century