Karl Neumer

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Karl Neumer
Neumer (center) with his opponents Maurice Schilles (left) and the eventual world champion William Bailey before the start of the 1909 World Championship race

Karl Neumer (born February 23, 1887 in Reinhardtsgrimma ; † May 16, 1984 in Pirna ) was a German racing cyclist .

Karl Neumer was born the son of a landowner and learned the trade of a businessman. He got into track cycling through his uncle, the two-time master rider of Saxony Josef Burger . His first placement was in 1904 as runner-up in the championship of Saxony.

In 1905 Neumer joined the professionals, but had an accident with a tram in December and then had to take a break from cycling. In 1907 he started again as an amateur and won the German championship over 1000 m. He twice won the Kaiser Prize, one of the most prestigious races of the time.

In 1908 Neumer started at the Olympic Games , taking silver with the team in the pursuit and bronze in the 660 yard race . The following year he was two-time German champion. In 1909 and 1910 Karl Neumer was vice world champion in the sprint over 2000 m. At the final in 1909, he was in the lead, held by the Frenchman Maurice Schilles by the arm so that William Bailey could run over him. A protest by Neumers was unsuccessful.

After finishing his cycling career, Karl Neumer opened a vegetable store in Dresden . There he was bombed out in February 1945 and moved to his hometown Reinhardtsgrimma. He died as the oldest Olympic medalist at the time at the age of 97. Neumer continued to cycle into old age.

The Karl Neumer Memorial Tour was held in 2006 as part of the 800th anniversary of Reinhardtsgrimma. The track bike on which Neumer rode at the 1908 Olympic Games is in the collection of the Leipzig Sports Museum .

Trivia

In an interview on the occasion of his 95th birthday, Neumer stated that he had neither smoked nor drank alcohol in his life.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ There are three different versions of the place of birth and place of death.
  2. ^ A b German Cycling Association of the GDR (Ed.): The cyclist . No. 8/1982 . Berlin, S. 3 .
  3. ^ German Cycling Association of the GDR (ed.): The cyclist . No. 8/1987 . Berlin 1987, p. 4 .

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personal data
SURNAME Neumer, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German racing cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH February 23, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH May 16, 1984
Place of death Reinhardtsgrimma