Josef Ripfel
To person | |
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Nickname | Yep |
Date of birth | September 2, 1938 |
nation |
Germany Sweden |
discipline | Railway (endurance) / road |
End of career | 1972 |
Team (s) as coach | |
National team Sweden | |
Last updated: February 16, 2020 |
Josef "Jupp" Ripfel (born September 2, 1938 in Nesselwang ) is a former German - Swedish racing cyclist and cycling trainer.
Athletic career
Josef Ripfel was born in Germany. In 1960 he took part in the elimination race for the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome between the teams of the Federal Republic of Germany and the GDR . The following year he suffered a knee injury, so that the end of his career as a competitive athlete was predicted.
Ripfel, a trained precision mechanic, went to Sweden in November 1961 to work there for six months. A friend persuaded him to compete for the Stockholm cycling club Djurgårdens IF for one summer , and in 1964 he switched to “CK Falken Stockholm”. He was so successful in this that he decided to stay in Sweden and officially accept Swedish citizenship and the name "Jupp". In 1968 he started for Sweden at the Olympic Games in Mexico and finished 22nd in the 1000 meter time trial . At the following World Track Championships in Montevideo , he won the bronze medal in the team pursuit together with three of the Fåglum brothers . In 1965, 1966, 1970 and 1971 he was Swedish road racing champion. In 1970 he won the team time trial title .
Professional
In 1972 Ripfel ended his active career. He then trained as a qualified sports teacher. For several years he worked as a club coach, for 13 years he was the Swedish national coach of the juniors and at the Olympic Games in 1992 he was in charge of the Swedish national team.
Familiar
Ripfel married the sister of the Swedish cyclist Curt Söderlund .
successes
Street
- 1963
- one stage tour of Austria
- 1964
- Swedish Champion - Relay (with Curt Söderlund and Owe Sundström )
- 1965
- one stage tour of Sweden
- Swedish champion - road race
- 1966
- Swedish champion - road race
- Swedish Champion - Relay (with Roland Strand and Nils Erik Kindh )
- 1968
- Swedish Champions - Relay (with Ted Claesson and Thomas Eriksson )
- two stages Morocco tour
- a stage of the peace journey
- 1969
- one stage tour of Sweden
- 1970
- Swedish champion - road race
- Swedish Champion - Relay (with Torbjörn Boström and Bengt Bergström )
- Swedish Champion - Individual Time Trial (Team Classification ) (with Curt Söderlund and Tony Svensson )
- 1971
- one stage tour of Austria
- Nordic Champion - Team Time Trial (with Sune Wennlöf , Leif Hansson and Sten Andersson )
- Swedish champion - road race
- Swedish Champion - Relay (with Bert Jigstedt and Curt Olsson )
train
- 1968
- World Championship - Team Pursuit (with Erik Pettersson , Tomas Pettersson and Gösta Pettersson )
Web links
- Josef Ripfel in the Radsportseiten.net database
- Josef Ripfel in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- Cykelträff on infohub.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Jupp Ripfel - Sveriges Olympiska Kommitté. In: sok.se. Retrieved February 16, 2020 (Swedish).
- ^ Association of German cyclists (ed.): Radsport . No. 25/1966 . Deutscher Sportverlag Kurt Stoof, Cologne 1966, p. 15 .
- ↑ see also Fåglum brothers
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Ripfel, Josef |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ripfel, Jupp (nickname) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swedish cyclist |
DATE OF BIRTH | September 2, 1938 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Nesselwang |