Jürgen Walter (cyclist)

Jürgen Walter as German champion in 1967

RRC final spurt Mannheim - German champions in team time trial 1968 - v. l. No. Algis Oleknavicius , Jürgen Walter, Karl Ziegler (trainer), Jürgen Tschan and Dieter Leitner

Jürgen Walter (born February 6, 1940 in Deutsch Krone ) is a former German cyclist . He is a two-time German champion .

career

Jürgen Walter began cycling in Schwerin in 1954 . As a youth driver in the GDR , he won 22 races. In 1958 he and his parents fled west to Hamburg . In 1961 he surprisingly won the most important German single title in Lebach .

In 1964 he went to RG Hamburg . In the following four years until 1967 he was eight times Hamburg champion on the track and road . He joined the national team of the Association of German Cyclists in 1966 and took part in the pre-Olympic Games in Mexico City . In 1967 he became German street racing champion and led the ranking of German street amateurs. In the same year he took part in the International Peace Tour , which led from Warsaw via East Berlin to Prague , the Rhineland-Palatinate Tour , the World Road Championship in Heerlen and the Tour of Mexico . Karl Ziegler became aware of him through his sporting successes and brought him to the RRC final spurt in Mannheim in 1968 , with which he won the German championship in the team time trial in 1968 in a German record time. In the same year he won the most important road race in Denmark "Spinlon løbet", among others before the later amateur world champion Leif Mortensen .

Professional

Walter worked professionally in Hamburg as a motor vehicle master. Before that, he had gone to sea as a machinist for a few years.

Web links

• In the chronicles of RG Hamburg
• Karl Ziegler celebrated his 90th birthday

Individual evidence

1. ^ Karl-Heinz Schwarz-Pich: Karl Ziegler and the great era of the RRC final spurt Mannheim . Kassel: 2003. ISBN 3-89784-233-5 , pp. 194ff.
2. ↑ ^{a b} Association of German Cyclists (ed.): Cycling . No. 19/1967 . Deutscher Sportverlag Kurt Stoof, Cologne 1967, p. 9 .
3. ↑ https://www.morgenweb.de/mannheimer-morgen_artikel,-lokalsport-mannheim-mannheimer-seemann-_arid,1597956.html
4. ↑ Ranking list of amateur road drivers in 1967 . Radsport, 49, December 5, 1967, p. 9.
5. ↑ Hans Petersen: Dramatisk culmination efter løbet . Sporten, June 4, 1968, p. 17.
6. ^ Association of German cyclists (ed.): Radsport . No. 29/1967 . Deutscher Sportverlag Kurt Stoof, Cologne 1967, p. 2 .