Gert Frank

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Gert Frank Road cycling
To person
Date of birth March 15, 1956
date of death 19th January 2019
nation DenmarkDenmark Denmark
discipline Train / street
End of career 1988
Societies)
approx. 1972 to 1976 Århus CK
Team (s)
1978
1980 		ZoppasZeus
Reynolds
Most important successes
Olympic games
1976 bronze - team time trial
Last updated: May 10, 2019
Gert Frank set the pace for his son Martin at the UEC Derny European Championship 2015 in Hanover

Gert Frank (born March 15, 1956 in Hobro ; † January 19, 2019 ) was a Danish cyclist .

Athletic career

Gert Frank was one of the best track cyclists in Denmark in the 1970s and 1980s. Even in the youth and junior class he was three times Danish champion, in tandem races , in individual and team time trials as well as Nordic champion.

In 1976 Frank became the Danish amateur team pursuit champion with Niels Fredborg , Gunnar Asmussen and Kurt Frisch . At the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal , he won the bronze medal in the team time trial on the road together with Verner Blaudzun , Jørn Lund and Jørgen Emil Hansen .

After the Olympic Games, Gert Frank switched to the professionals . In 1977 and 1979 he was Danish champion in the single pursuit , in 1980 in the Omnium . He also won the title of European champion in two-man team driving four times .

In addition, Frank competed almost exclusively in six-day races in the following years . He started in a total of 143 six-day races, of which he won 20. He came second 22 times and third 20 times; This puts him in 27th place in the all-time ranking of six-day drivers. At the beginning of the 1980s it was expected that Frank would succeed Patrick Sercu and René Pijnen as “bosses” of the six-day riders, but his performance deteriorated noticeably after a few years. In 1988 Frank retired from active cycling.

After the sport

Then Gert Frank opened a bicycle shop on Gammel Kongevej , the main shopping street in Copenhagen , and he also worked as a purchasing manager for a computer company. He died in his sleep of a blood clot in his heart at the age of 62 .

successes

train

1973
1976
1977
  • MaillotDinamarca.svg Danish master - one's pursuit
1979
  • MaillotDinamarca.svg Danish master - one's pursuit
1980
  • MaillotDinamarca.svg Danish master - Omnium
1981
1983
1984
  • EuropeEurope European Champion - Derny
1985
1987

Six days race

1977
1979
1980
1981
1982
1983
1984
1985

Street

1973
  • MaillotDinamarca.svg Danish Youth Champion - Team Time Trial (with Gert Simonsen, Jan Torp and Jørgen Møller)
1974
  • MaillotDinamarca.svg Danish Junior Champion - Individual Time Trial
1975
1976

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The tidligere banelegende og cykelrytter Gert Frank er død. In: jyllands-posten.dk. January 20, 2019, accessed May 10, 2019 .
  2. ↑ The European championships before the establishment of the " Union Européenne de Cyclisme " (UEC) in 1995 are considered unofficial, as they were usually invitation races up to this point in which non-European drivers could also take part.
  3. ↑ Jacques van Reijendam: 6-daagse-statistieken 2010 . Edited by the Union Internationale des Vélodromes .
  4. ↑ Udo Hempel - German Six Day Star of the 70's & 80's. In: VeloVeritas. February 2, 2014, accessed May 10, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Roger de Maertelaere: Mannen van de Nacht , Eeklo 2000, p. 209.
  6. ↑ The tidligere cykelrytter Gert Frank er død. In: dr.dk. Retrieved May 10, 2019 (Danish).
  7. ↑ The tidligere OL-bronzevinder og seksdagesstjerne Gert Frank er død. In: politiken.dk. January 20, 2019, accessed May 10, 2019 (Danish).
personal data
SURNAME Frank, Gert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish track cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH March 15, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Hobro
DATE OF DEATH 19th January 2019