Karl Weimer

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Karl Weimer Road cycling
To person
Date of birth June 27, 1910
date of death 1991
nation GermanyGermany Germany
discipline Road cycling, track cycling
End of career 1953
Team (s)
1939-1941
1948-1953 		Victoria
Bauer
Last updated: June 24, 2014

Karl Weimer (born June 27, 1910 in Bondorf , † 1991 in Asperg ) was a German racing cyclist .

Weimer started cycling in the local cycling club at the age of 16. At the age of 20 he won his first regional title as South German champion. He switched to the Brennabor Cannstadt association . At the age of 28 he became a professional driver in the racing stable of the Viktoria-Werke Nuremberg. 1938 Karl Weimer finished third in the German road championship of amateurs . The following year he became a professional and in 1941 German runner-up in the road race for professional drivers.

The Second World War interrupted Weimer's sporting career, but after the war and two years as a prisoner of war he was racing again as a professional. In 1948 he became German vice-champion in two-man team driving , together with Erich Hoffmann . In the same year he won the eleventh stage of the Tour of Germany (Green Belt of the IRA), the following year the sixth stage of the tour , and in 1951 he was successful in the fifth stage. In 1950 (with Heinz Müller ), 1951 (with Theo Intra ) and 1952 (with Valentin Petry ) he was third in the German championship in two-man team driving. In 1952 he was again German runner-up in road racing. He contested 12 six-day races .

After the end of his active cycling career in 1953, Weimer worked as a trainer and looked after, among others, the later Olympic champion Karl Link . In 1953 he was a co-founder of the cycling department of the Stuttgarter SC .

Professional

Weimer completed an apprenticeship as a precision mechanic.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Karl Weimer: 100th anniversary of birth. Gäubote, June 26, 2010, accessed June 24, 2014 .
  2. ↑ a b Association of German Cyclists (ed.): Cycling . No. 26/1970 . German sports publisher Kurt Stoof, Cologne 1950, p. 22 .
  3. ↑ Presentation by Karl Link on the subject of "fast - fast" by the Heimatgeschichtsverein für Schönbuch und Gäu - November 2009. (No longer available online.) Radsportzeile.de, archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; Retrieved June 24, 2014 .
  4. ↑ Eugen Wondratsch: Review of cycling on the 100th anniversary of the club
personal data
SURNAME Weimer, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German racing cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH June 27, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Bondorf
DATE OF DEATH 1991