Josef Ripfel

Josef Ripfel
To person
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
SURNAME	Ripfel, Josef
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Ripfel, Jupp (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swedish cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH	September 2, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH	Nesselwang

[sok-Jupp_Rip-1] Jupp Ripfel - Sveriges Olympiska Kommitté. In: sok.se. Retrieved February 16, 2020 (Swedish).

[2] Association of German cyclists (ed.): Radsport . No. 25/1966 . Deutscher Sportverlag Kurt Stoof, Cologne 1966, p. 15 .

[3] see also Fåglum brothers