Jürgen Simon
Jürgen Simon (born January 10, 1938 in Gera ; † October 26, 2003 in Quirla ) was a cyclist from the GDR . In 1960 he won an Olympic silver medal in a tandem race .
Sports career
Jürgen Simon started his career at BSG Einheit Gera . Simon won his first GDR championship title together with Jochen Schmidt in 1954 in the two-man team driving for the BSG unit Berliner Bär , as well as in the sprint of the youth class. From 1955 Jürgen Simon started for SC Einheit Berlin and trained with Gerhard Gallinge, with whom he also sublet in his first years in Berlin. In 1955 (as a 17-year-old with a special permit for the men's class), in 1956 and 1961 Jürgen Simon won the GDR championships in the bike sprint , in between Lothar Stäber from SC Dynamo Berlin and twice Karl-Heinz Peter from SC Einheit Berlin.
At the GDR cycling championships in 1960, Jürgen Simon won a tandem ride with Konrad Irmschler from SC Dynamo ahead of Karl-Heinz Peter and Lothar Stäber. Simon and Stäber qualified together for the all-German team and the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome . In Rome, the two reached the final, where they lost to the Italians Giuseppe Beghetto and Sergio Bianchetto .
In the following year, Stäber and his new partner Senger won the GDR championship title ahead of Simon and Irmschler. After Simon and Hans-Jürgen Klunker only finished third in the GDR championships in 1962, Irmschler and Simon competed together again in 1963 and won their second championship title after 1960.
Jürgen Simon had first trained as a druggist in order to take over his parents' drugstore in Gera. After the end of his sporting career, however, he stayed in Berlin and built up a taxi business.
Awards (selection)
- 1960: Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze
literature
- Volker Kluge : Lexicon athletes in the GDR . New Life Publishing House, Berlin 2009 ISBN 978-3-355-01759-6
Web links
- Jürgen Simon in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
- Jürgen Simon in the Radsportseiten.net database
Individual evidence
- ↑ GDR champion in team driving
- ^ Presidium of the Cycling Section of the GDR (Ed.): Cycling Week . No. 2/1956 . Berlin 1956, p. 7 .
- ↑ GDR champion in bike sprint
- ↑ GDR championships in tandem driving
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Simon, Jürgen |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German racing cyclist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 10, 1938 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Gera |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 26, 2003 |
| Place of death | Quirla |