Joachim Schlaphoff

Joachim Schlaphoff

To person
Date of birth	October 10, 1959
nation	Germany
discipline	Road / train
End of career	1990
Societies)
-1983	BRC Student Derby Berlin
Team (s)
1984 1985 1986–1987 1987 1988 1988 1988–1989 1989	Dries-Verandalux Rizy Blacky Commodore Krabo Boccacchio-Life Blacky Titanbonifica
Most important successes
German champions - team time trial
Last updated: October 12, 2019

Joachim Schlaphoff (born October 10, 1959 in Hanover ) is a former German cyclist and national champion in cycling .

Athletic career

Schlaphoff started cycling at HRC Hanover . At the age of 20 he joined the RC Charlottenburg in Berlin. After some successes, especially in criteria , he won the Rund race in Berlin in 1981 . A year later he won the German championship in the 100 kilometer team time trial with Roland Weissinger, Heinz Walczak and Rolf Gölz with his new club, BRC Schüler Derby Berlin . In the Rhineland-Palatinate Tour and the Tour of Poland , he was able to win one stage each. In addition, he was again German champion in the team time trial with Gölz, Walczak and Michael Marx . Behind Dieter Flögel , he finished second in the national road racing championship .

From 1983 to 1990 Schlaphoff competed as a professional rider for various cycling teams in Germany, Belgium, Italy and Switzerland. He started several times for Germany at the UCI World Championships for professional drivers, but did not finish the races. In addition to some successes in criteria, a stage win in the Tour of England in 1985 was his most important success as a professional.

Schlaphoff also drove track races , so he placed ninth at the 1986 World Championship in standing races and third at the German Standing Championship in 1989. Six-day races also saw him often at the start, he contested 59 races. In his new hometown of Berlin he drove the six-day race seven times, in 1985 he was third with Anthony Doyle from Great Britain. He achieved his best placement in the Launceton race with Dieter Giebken when both finished second.

In 1990 he ended his career. He remained connected to cycling as chairman and trainer of the Spandauer RV 1891.

Professional

After his career, he has been running the Schlaphoff bicycle gallery in Berlin with his brother since 1998 .

Familiar

Schlaphoff is married. His daughter was also active in cycling as an artistic cyclist in Berlin.

Web links

• Joachim Schlaphoff in the Radsportseiten.net database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Werner Ruttkus, Wolfgang Schoppe: Roundabout & Berlin Air . Self-published by Werner Ruttkus, Zossen 2011, p. 384-385 .
2. ↑ Spandauer RV 1891. Retrieved on September 20, 2019 . 
3. ^ Bicycle gallery Schlaphoff. Retrieved September 20, 2019 .