Gerhard Scheller

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Gerhard Scheller (born October 19, 1958 in Nuremberg ) is a former German racing cyclist .

In 1975 the trained motor vehicle mechanic Gerhard Scheller became vice world champion in the junior sprint . Between 1975 and 1977 he won five national junior titles in various disciplines. In 1983 he was again runner-up in the 1000-meter time trial in Zurich , now the amateurs . In 1984 he started at the Olympic Games in Los Angeles and finished fifth in the sprint. He was the German amateur sprint and 1000 meter time trial champion eight times . In 1979 Scheller won the Hanover Grand Prix, one of the most traditional sprint tournaments in Germany, ahead of the ambitious Fredy Schmidtke and Anton Tkáč , who was then reigning world champion. In 1982 and 1985 he was able to win the competition again.

In 1986, Scheller became German with Wolfgang Gronen's streamlined bicycle “Vector” in Traunstein and “European Champion of Alternative Bicycle Models” in Nümbrecht (50 teams competed) and took part in the “ Human Powered Vehicle Speed ​​Championships ” in Canada in August of the same year part. In 1987, Scheller set a new record on the banks of the Moselle with the “Vector” by covering 100 kilometers in 1:31:24 hours and thus reaching 65.709 kilometers per hour . As a result, Scheller set even more world records, so u. a. one on the highest cycle track in La Paz, Bolivia .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ German Cycling Association of the GDR (ed.): The cyclist . No. 33/1979 . Berlin 1979, p. 3 .
  2. ↑ 10 Years of HPV - A Chronicle and More! Aachen 1996, p. 57

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SURNAME Scheller, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German racing cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH October 19, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Nuremberg