Holger Kickeritz
Kickeritz (left) pushes Schmeißer in the race “Six days for the Young World Prize ” in January 1978 |
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Nickname | kick |
Date of birth | 15th August 1956 |
date of death | 2012 |
nation | German Democratic Republic |
discipline | Rail , road cycling |
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1974-1988 | SC Dynamo Berlin |
Holger Kickeritz (born August 15, 1956 in Gera ; † 2012 in Berlin ) was a German racing cyclist .
Holger Kickeritz, called "Kick", came from Gera and initially started for SG Dynamo Gera. In 1971 he was GDR road champion for students and in team time trials , in 1974 GDR youth champion together with Siegbert Schmeißer in two-man team driving . He was then delegated to the SC Dynamo Berlin in Berlin and developed into a versatile cyclist on the road , track and in cyclo-cross races . At the age of 17 he was able to win the international youth trophy "Cycling aces of the future" over three stages. In 1977 he became GDR champion in the cyclo-cross race, and in the following year he was runner-up behind Uwe Freese .
In the 1976 GDR tour , Kickeritz won the seventh stage; In 1978 he was GDR runner-up in road racing , and the following year he took third place. Also in 1978 he won the third stage of the Tour of Austria . At Rund um den Sachsenring he came second in 1978 and third in 1979. In 1979 he was 19th in the overall ranking of the International Peace Tour. Together with Schmeißer, he successfully took part in the Berlin winter railway races in the Werner-Seelenbinder-Halle . There both won u. a. 1978 the Six Days for the Young World Prize .
He was on 10 December 1982 before a packed house at the train passed the Werner Seelenbinder hall in Berlin from line port. After finishing his career as a competitive athlete, Holger Kickeritz became a mechanic, but continued to successfully contest everyone's race as a member of RSV Werner Otto . Most recently he owned his own bicycle shop in Berlin.
literature
- New Germany . No. 104 . Socialist Unity Party of Germany, 1979, ISSN 0323-3375 .
Web links
- Holger Kickeritz in the Radsportseiten.net database
- 20130526_NachrufKick.pdf (PDF; 208.26 KB)
Individual evidence
- ^ German Cycling Association of the GDR (ed.): The cyclist . No. 23/1974 . Berlin 1974, p. 2 .
- ↑ Cycling - GDR - championships (cyclo-cross) on sport-komplett.de
- ^ Cycling - GDR - championships (road - individual time trial / men) on sport-komplett.de
- ↑ Maik Märtin: 50 years of Course de la Paix . Agency Construct, Leipzig 1998, p. 149 .
- ↑ Rene Jacobs et al. (Ed.): Velo . Brussels 1978, p. 200 .
- ↑ 500 drivers stormed around the Motzener See . Märkische Allgemeine v. June 11, 2003 ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
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SURNAME | Kickeritz, Holger |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German racing cyclist (GDR) |
DATE OF BIRTH | 15th August 1956 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Gera |
DATE OF DEATH | 2012 |
Place of death | Berlin |