Horst Wagner (cyclist)

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Horst Wagner (born November 1, 1947 in Magdeburg ) is a former German racing cyclist and two-time GDR champion.

Athletic career

Horst Wagner first started cycling as a touring rider in 1961. He contested his first race as part of the Grandstand Mountain Prize in 1961 and won the race straight away. He then joined BSG Turbine Magdeburg in 1962 . From his father Willi Wagner, who himself was active as a cyclist in Magdeburg, he received all the support he needed to practice cycling in a performance-oriented manner. In the A-youth he achieved a number of successes, after a strong race during the Harz Tour , where he was the best BSG driver, the Leipzig trainer Otto Busse approached him about a change to SC DHfK Leipzig . In January 1966 he made the change to the sports club, where he started in performance class III and won seven. As a member of the SC DHfK Leipzig, he trained alongside ex-world champion Bernhard Eckstein and the winner of the 1963 International Peace Tour, Klaus Ampler .

His coach in this early period was the ex-world champion Gustav Adolf "Täve" Schur . He achieved such good results in road races that in 1967 he was promoted to the top performance class in GDR cycling. At his first start in the GDR tour , he took second place in the ranking of the best young driver (overall ranking 44th). In the ČSSR he won his first race abroad in a smaller stage trip in Trenčín . In 1968 a remarkable 15th place followed in the GDR tour. In 1969 he received his first appointment to the national team of the GDR for the Algeria tour , which he finished 12th. In the summer he and his club won the GDR championship in team time trial together with Bernd Knispel , Klaus Ampler and Dieter Mickein . For the UCI World Championship in Zolder , Belgium , he was nominated as a reserve driver for the time trial team and started in the individual race, but was eliminated. With the start of the Tour of Bulgaria , another appointment to the national team followed at the end of the season.

In 1970 the team of the SC DHfK Leipzig was able to defend the title in the team time trial in Lübben with the cast of Wagner, Knispel, Michael Schiffner and Manfred Dähne . Wagner won the bronze medal at the GDR championship in the 1971 criterion won by Michael Schiffner . In 1971 he was among the candidates for the International Peace Tour , but, as in 1972, was unable to assert himself in the qualification.

In 1972 he achieved the silver medal at the championships in the team time trial. With 5th place in the Tour of Poland he achieved a remarkable result in the overall ranking. In 1974 the Leipzig coaching council decided that Horst Wagner should focus on the track in future. Here, too, he was able to book a GDR championship title, in which he and Klaus-Dieter Greil won the two-man team drive in front of the long-time track specialist. After he was nominated as a substitute for the World Railroad Championship, but was then not allowed to ride, he decided to leave the sports club at the end of the season.

Professional

Wagner completed an apprenticeship as a lathe operator in his hometown of Magdeburg . After moving to the sports club in Leipzig, he was assigned a job in a Leipzig metal works. After completing his competitive sports career, Wagner worked as a lathe operator in an agricultural machinery construction company in Torgau .

Familiar

Wagner has two sisters and a brother. During his career, he moved with his family to Torgau an der Elbe .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Old love doesn't rust - Horst Wagner on Fritz Baars' page. Retrieved April 7, 2019 .
  2. ^ German Cycling Association of the GDR (ed.): The cyclist . No. 11/1969 . Berlin 1969, p. 7 .
  3. ^ German Cycling Association of the GDR (ed.): The cyclist . No. 35/1969 . Berlin 1969, p. 7 .
personal data
SURNAME Wagner, Horst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cyclist and two-time GDR champion
DATE OF BIRTH November 1, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Magdeburg