Heinz Betz

Heinz Betz

Heinz Betz (2018)
To person
Nickname	September 29, 1954
nation	Germany
discipline	Train / street
End of career	1986
Most important successes
Track World Championships 1980 - points race
Last updated: June 10, 2018

Heinz Betz (born September 29, 1954 in Bad Cannstatt ) is a German cycling manager and former racing cyclist .

Athletic career

As an amateur, Heinz Betz was German champion twice, in team pursuit (1976) and in two-man team driving (1977).

From 1977 to 1987, Betz was a professional from 1977 to 1987 . At the UCI Track World Championships in Besançon in 1980 , he won the bronze medal in the points race . Twice - in 1982 and 1983 - he was third in two-man team driving at German track championships , together with his brother Werner Betz .

In road cycling , Betz was a member of the Kondor cycling team from 1979 to 1980 and of Kotter's Racing Team in 1981 , to which Dietrich Thurau also belonged. With this team he took part in the 1980 Giro d'Italia and finished this Grand Tour as 88th and penultimate.

After the end of his active career, Heinz Betz worked as a cycling manager, among others for Stefan Schumacher , and together with Gregor Braun leads a "cycling academy" in the Black Forest.

successes

1976

• German amateur champion - team pursuit (with Hans Lutz , Roland Weissinger and Henry Rinklin )

1977

• German amateur champion - two-man team driving (with Werner Betz )

1980

• Track World Championship - points race

Teams

• 1978 Willora-Mairag-Piz Buin
• 1979 condor
• 1980 condor
• 1981 Kotter's Racing Team

Web links

• Heinz Betz in the Radsportseiten.net database
• Heinz Betz in the ProCyclingStats.com database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Results Giro d´Italia 1980 on museociclismo.it accessed on July 13, 2012
2. ↑ Statement from Schumacher lawyer and manager. In: rad-net.de. October 9, 2008, accessed June 11, 2018 . 
3. ↑ Cycling Academy , Bad Wildbad. In: radsportakademie.de. Retrieved June 11, 2018 .