Hardy Groeger

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Hardy Gröger on a stage of the Saxony tour in 1988

Hardy Gröger (born May 31, 1959 ) is a former German cyclist .

Athletic career

Gröger started cycling at BSG Motor Hainichen when he was 14 . Starting for this community, he was 1976 GDR youth A champion in cyclo-cross racing . After some success, he was delegated to SC Karl-Marx-Stadt at the age of 16 . When health problems arose after a year, he was "delegated" again and, after some rehabilitation time, started again for his former club. After he got back into competitive sport and had defeated his former clubmates several times, he was noticed at ASK Vorwärts Frankfurt an der Oder , and he moved there at the age of 19.

From 1980 to 1989, Gröger was a member of the GDR national road team. In 1983 he won the Tour of Portugal , twice the Romania Cup , and won stage wins in the Tour of Cuba, Tour of Yugoslavia, Tour of Romania, Tour of Bulgaria and national stage races. He took top places in national tours in 1986 as second in the GDR tour , second in the Tour de Bohemia in 1984, second in the Kuba tour in 1983 (he was third there in 1985) and seventh in the Colorado tour in 1983. There were also many other good placements on international tours.

At the national level, his victories at the Sachsenring race in 1984 and Rund um die Landeskrone in 1984 stand out. In addition, there were victories in several smaller stage trips in the GDR. He won a GDR championship title in 1985 on the track in Berlin's Werner-Seelenbinder-Halle with the ASK Vorwärts team in the team pursuit at the GDR indoor championships. He achieved podium placements at GDR championships in the mountain time trial in 1981 (third), in the team time trial in 1982 and 1985 (both second), 1986 (third). He was seen as a team-serving and loyal driver who often put his own ambitions aside in favor of his captains in the national team. Yet he was never nominated for the International Peace Ride or UCI Road World Championships . He saw his refusal to become a member of the SED as the reason for this . Gröger achieved around 100 victories in his career. After 1989 he became a professional driver and started for a smaller Portuguese team for two years . In 1991 he ended his career for health reasons and returned to Chemnitz , where he once again strengthened the Chemnitz RG team for a while and competed in the cycling league.

Professional

After retiring, Hardy Gröger initially worked as a trainer in Chemnitz . There he was significantly involved in building up the Bundesliga team and the women's team, and has also worked as a coach in cycling. For both Chemnitz teams, the financial end came in 1994. Gröger then worked in a car dealership and also completed a degree in social education . After graduating, he worked as a social worker, but on many occasions also active as a coach in cycling. Since 2008, he has also been working on an event-related basis as a supervisor for the Association of German Cyclists (BDR), including at the UCI Rail World Championships 2018 in Apeldoorn .

Familiar

Hardy Gröger lives in Frankenberg . He is married and has a son.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ German Cycling Association of the GDR (ed.): The cyclist . No. 48/1976 . Berlin 1976, p. 1 .
  2. ↑ Wolfgang Taubmann, Johannes Zimoch, Wilfried Schulz (eds.): Stand up again and again . Spotless-Verlag (cooperation), Berlin 2007, ISBN 3-937943-03-X , p. 243 .
  3. ^ Sachsenring race. Retrieved June 3, 2019 .
  4. ↑ a b Frankenberger as a good soul right in the middle. Free press, accessed June 3, 2019 .
  5. ^ Rad Sport Kontakt GmbH (ed.): Rad-Bundesliga 1993 . Frankfurt am Main 1993, p. 43 .
personal data
SURNAME Groeger, Hardy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH May 31, 1959