Horst Certainly

Horst Certainly

To person
Date of birth	17th November 1952
nation	Germany
discipline	train
End of career	after 1983
Most important successes
UCI track world championships 1977 - tandem race
Last updated: December 18, 2018

Horst Gewiss (born November 17, 1952 in Berlin ) is a former German track cyclist .

Athletic career

At the beginning of his career he also competed in road races and was victorious in the youth class several times. He started for the BRC Zugvogel association . Horst Gewiss (also Gewiss in contemporary sources) was successful in tandem races in the 1970s . Together with Wolfgang Schäffer , he was three times German champion in this discipline. In 1977 the two athletes won the bronze medal in this discipline at the World Railroad Championships . Until 1981 he stood on the podium several times at German championships, also in other disciplines such as sprint , two-man team driving (with Peter Vonhof ) and team pursuit . In 1979 he was able to win a six-day race for amateurs (in Frankfurt am Main ) with his partner Markus Intra .

In 1983 he became German champion in the standing race behind Christian Dippel .

successes

1975

• German champion - tandem race (with Wolfgang Schäffer )

1976

• German champion - tandem race (with Wolfgang Schäffer )

1977

• World Championship - Tandem Race (with Wolfgang Schäffer )
• German champion - tandem race (with Wolfgang Schäffer )

1979

• German amateur champion - Omnium

1983

• German Champion - Standing Race (behind Christian Dippel )

Web links

• Horst Gewiss in the Radsportseiten.net database

Individual evidence

1. ^ Association of German cyclists (ed.): Radsport . No. 5/1970 . Deutscher Sportverlag Kurt Stoof, Cologne 1970, p. 18 .
2. ^ German Cycling Association of the GDR (ed.): The cyclist . No. 47/1979 . Berlin 1979, p. 3 .