Karl Link

This article deals with the German cyclist; on the US biochemist, see Karl Paul Link .

Karl Link (2012)

Karl Link (born July 27, 1942 in Herrenberg ) is a former German track cyclist and retired director of the Stuttgart Olympic Training Center .

Link was at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo member of the team that the gold medal in the Team Pursuit won. In 1964 he had already won the world title in this discipline. At the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City , he was a member of the track four, which won the silver medal in the team pursuit. In December 1966, he and Albert Fritz as a partner won the two-man team race for the Silver Eagle in Cologne , one of the most important track races of that time.

For his sporting success he was awarded the Silver Laurel Leaf on December 11, 1964 .

Link is a trained typesetter. In 1965 he received a scholarship to study at the Sport University in Cologne . Initially BDR youth coach, he became assistant coach to Gustav Kilian , whose successor he took over after the 1972 Summer Olympics . In 1985 he was secretary of the Organizing Committee of the Junior Cycling Championships. In 1987, Karl Link was given the management of the Olympic Training Center in Stuttgart, which he held until his retirement in July 2007.

Publications (selection)

• Karl Link and Rudi Altig : The cycling guide. Sportinform Oberhaching 1990, ISBN 3-89284-424-0
• Karl Link: Exercise bike training plan. Sportinform, Oberhaching 1988, ISBN 3-89284-316-3
• Klaus-Peter Thaler and Karl Link: Mountain Bike Manual. Sportinform, Oberhaching 1989, ISBN 3-89284-041-5
• Klaus-Peter Thaler and Karl Link: Mountain Bike Manual. Sportinform, Oberhaching 1990, ISBN 3-89284-441-0

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Renate Franz : "The greatest fraud of all time" - How the four-man lost gold at the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico. In: Cycling4Fans. April 17, 2015, accessed April 18, 2015 . 
2. ^ Association of German cyclists (ed.): Radsport . No. 50/1966 . Deutscher Sportverlag Kurt Stoof, Cologne 1966, p. 4 .
3. ↑ Sports report of the federal government of September 29, 1973 to the Bundestag - printed matter 7/1040 - page 71 (pdf , 1.86 MB)
4. ↑ Gäubote: Karl Link is retiring - but surely only as the head of the OSP on radsportzeileblogg.blogg.de from July 24, 2007  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  

Web links

• Karl Link in the Radsportseiten.net database
• Karl Link in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )