Heinrich Trumheller

Heinrich Trumheller (born July 1, 1972 in Nalchik , Soviet Union ) is a former German racing cyclist .

Life

Heinrich Trumheller was born in the Soviet Union , where he grew up in a Volga German family. He was trained by his father, himself a former successful cyclist. In 1989 he won against Lance Armstrong at the Junior Road World Championships.

In 1990 the family emigrated to Germany and settled in Donaueschingen .

1991 won Heinrich Trumheller nor as Amateur Köln-Schuld-Frechen , the Tour of Slovakia and finished in the amateur competition of the Championship of Zurich place. He then became a professional, which he stayed until 2000 with a break. In 1992 he was German road racing champion and sixth in the Tour de Suisse . In 1998 he won the International Ernst Sachs Tour . Rudi Altig said of Trumheller that he was "one of the greatest hopes in German cycling for the last ten years". In the further course of his professional career, however, major successes failed, and Trumheller could not meet expectations.

In 2014 Trumheller reported publicly that from the mid-1990s onwards, entire teams suddenly raced, “as if they came from another planet”. He himself had achieved his greatest successes “cleanly” and for a long time only “drove with bread and water”. After all, he also tried EPO himself , but he was miles away from medically accompanied structured doping like other drivers. His father raised him to be fair and honest, but he was desperate at the time. At the end of the 1990s, he ended his sports career.

Heinrich Trumheller now lives in Nuremberg and runs a shop for Eastern European delicacies. (As of 2014)

Web links

• Heinrich Trumheller in the Radsportseiten.net database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Dirk Kunz: Armstrong left behind and then the aliens came. radsport-news.com, October 20, 2014, accessed October 22, 2014 . 
2. ↑ Heinrich Trumheller in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)