Jürgen Colombo

Jürgen Colombo (born September 2, 1949 in Zielona Góra ) is a former German cyclist .

Colombo began cycling in the Stuttgart-Feuerbach sports association . In 1971 Jürgen Colombo was third in the team pursuit at the World Track Cycling Championships in Varese (with Günter Haritz , Udo Hempel and Peter Vonhof ). In the following year he won the gold medal at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich with the four-man track (Haritz, Hempel and Günther Schumacher ) from coach Gustav Kilian .

For this he received the silver bay leaf on September 11, 1970.

Colombo now lives in Grafenau- Dätzingen and runs a bicycle shop.

Web links

• Jürgen Colombo in the database of Radsportseiten.net
• Jürgen Colombo in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Jürgen Colombo's website

Individual evidence

1. ^ Association of German cyclists (ed.): Radsport . No. 6/1967 . Deutscher Sportverlag Kurt Stoof, Cologne 1967, p. 17 .
2. ↑ Sports report of the federal government of September 29, 1973 to the Bundestag - printed matter 7/1040 - page 69