Karl Erdmann (cyclist)

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Erdmann Victory in Around Berlin (1910)
Karl Erdmann (around 1910)

Karl Erdmann (also Carl Erdmann ) was a German road cyclist .

Athletic career

On August 16, 1908, Karl Erdmann took fifth place among the amateurs, 4:33 minutes behind the winner of the classic road race “ Around Berlin ”. Although he came from Trebbin , he drove for the Askania Dessau club . A few weeks earlier, he had finished seventh in the Harz Tour . In 1910 he won “Around Berlin” on the 245-kilometer route Barnim - Oranienburg - Mittenwalde - Kleinmachnow as the fastest of 323 amateurs with a time of nine hours, 3 minutes and 57 seconds; The winner of the 25 professionals was Karl Saldow , who only needed around three minutes less for the route (9 hours, 20 seconds). In the same year Erdmann came second in the fourth edition of “ Rund um die Hainleite ” and crossed the finish line at the same time as Gustav Schulze, also from Trebbin (9:22:08).

On August 13, 1911, Erdmann was sixth in the 254-kilometer race “Rund um die Hainleite” (9:28:05, together with eight other drivers). Just a week later, on August 19, 1911, he started as a professional driver in the almost 600 kilometer long “ Vienna-Berlin ” race and finished ninth after about 28 hours of driving.

successes

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Canceled and revived: “Around Berlin” on September 6th. July 17, 2009, accessed June 18, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Cycling4fans - Portraits of races: 1908 Harz tour. In: cycling4fans.de. Retrieved June 22, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Neues Wiener Tagblatt , August 29, 1910, p. 12.
  4. ↑ Radfahrer-Zeitung , September 1, 1910, p. 6.
  5. ↑ Sport-Album der Rad-Welt , Volume 9, Berlin 1911, p. 84.
  6. ↑ Neues Wiener Tagblatt , August 19, 1911, p. 12.
personal data
SURNAME Erdmann, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German road cyclist and high cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH 19th century
DATE OF DEATH 20th century