Jürgen Oelschläger

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Jürgen Oelschläger (born September 29, 1969 in Laufen ; † September 26, 2004 ) was a German motorcycle racer .

Career

Jürgen Oelschläger competed in his first motorcycle race at the age of 21 on the temporary course at Speyer airfield as part of the Yamaha Cup . In the following year he was runner-up in this junior class. After an interlude in the 250 cm³ class of the German road championship from 1994 to 1996, Oelschläger switched to the supersport category in 1997. In the 1999 season he finished second in the overall Supersport standings behind Markus Barth .

After taking part in the Supersport World Championship as a wildcard pilot in 1998 and 1999 , Jürgen Oelschläger started in the 2000 season together with Barth for Alpha Technik Yamaha in the Superbike World Championship . The German team used the Yamaha YZF-R7 . With ninth place in the first race in Assen, the Netherlands , Oelschläger finished the season with 14 points in 35th place overall. In 2001 the Bavarian returned full-time to the German Supersport Championship. From 2003 he competed in the superbike category of the German championship, which is now known as IDM. With four wins on a Honda Fireblade in the alpha Technik Honda Team , he finished the season fifth overall.

In the 2004 IDM season , Jürgen Oelschläger was one of the title favorites and battled it out with his alpha-Technik team- mate Michael Schulten , the Austrians Robert Ulm and Andreas Meklau (both Suzuki GSX-R 1000 ) and Philipp Hafeneger ( Yamaha YZF-R1 ) hard fight for the championship.

Oelschläger had a serious accident at the IDM weekend in Oschersleben in mid-September 2004 . Shortly after the start of the first run, he fell and was run over by a subsequent driver who could not avoid the heavy traffic. Oelschläger suffered serious internal injuries and was taken to a hospital in Halle . Two weeks later, on the night of September 25th to 26th, 2004 - on the weekend of the last championship run at the Hockenheimring  - he succumbed to these injuries.

Jürgen Oelschläger was 34 years old and left behind his wife Silvia.

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personal data
SURNAME Oelschläger, Jürgen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ölschläger, Jürgen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German motorcycle racer
DATE OF BIRTH 29th September 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH To run
DATE OF DEATH September 26, 2004