Johannes Knab

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Johannes Knab (born September 14, 1946 in Bamberg ) is a former German racing cyclist .

Athletic career

Knab began his career in 1962 in the Concordia Hallstadt cycling club in 1910 , and later became a member of the Concordia Strullendorf 1920 e. V. In 1967 he won the Moritz Fischer memorial race in Schweinfurt and thus had his first major success. In the same year he became a member of the German national team, for which he played 192 missions. 1968 won the road race around Düren . Despite his season performances, he was not considered for the Olympic team for Mexico . In his own estimation, this was the greatest sporting disappointment of his career.

Knab took part in the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich , where he finished a disappointing 20th place in the team time trial with the German four-man . He was also at the start for Germany at the UCI World Championships in road racing . In 1969 he later drove in the British Milk Race and was 13th in the final ranking. In the Rhineland-Palatinate Tour in the same year, he came second behind Fedor den Hertog . In 1970 he won a stage in the Milk Race. In the spring he had contested the Tour of Algeria with a few top stage placements. He won his only medal at German championships in 1970 with third place in the team time trial. Knab was also successful as a train driver , in 1970 he won the two-man team drive for the Silver Eagle in Cologne with Heinz Feuerbach as a partner .

At the end of his career he could look back on 186 victories, 27 of them international. He won his “home race”, the Strullendorf Grand Prix , six times

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c RMV Concordia Strullendorf 1920 eV - Johannes Knab. In: concordia-strullendorf.de. Retrieved March 4, 2020 .
  2. ^ Association of German cyclists (ed.): Radsport . No. 20/1967 . Deutscher Sportverlag Kurt Stoof, Cologne 1967, p. 3 .
  3. ^ Association of German cyclists (ed.): Radsport . No. 3/1970 . Deutscher Sportverlag Kurt Stoof, Cologne 1970, p. 17 .
  4. ^ Association of German cyclists (ed.): Radsport . No. 50/1970 . Deutscher Sportverlag Kurt Stoof, Cologne 1970, p. 5 .
personal data
SURNAME Knab, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German racing cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH September 14, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Bamberg