Klaus Kobusch

Klaus Kobusch (born March 15, 1941 in Gadderbaum - Bethel , today Bielefeld ) is a former German cyclist . In 1964 he won an Olympic bronze medal in a tandem race and was honored with the silver laurel leaf on December 11, 1964.

Kobusch started cycling in 1955. For his first win in the beginner class, he received a sports bike. With this he signed up for a club and began cycling training.

In 1963 he won his first German championship title in the Omnium . From 1964 to 1969 the man from Bielefeld started for RV Radsportfreunde Bocholt , previously he was a member of the Zugvogel Bielefeld association . In 1964 he won the German championship title in tandem driving with Willi Fuggerer . At the Olympic Games in Tokyo in 1964, the two represented Germany as part of the all-German team . In the Olympic semifinals they were defeated by the two Italians Angelo Damiano and Sergio Bianchetto ; The two Germans won the two races for third place against the Dutch tandem.

In 1966 Kobusch won three German championship titles: with the tandem, in the team pursuit and in the sprint . At the World Railroad Championships in Frankfurt Kobusch reached the finals in the tandem race together with Martin Stenzel , where the two were defeated by the French Pierre Trentin and Daniel Morelon . In 1967 Kobusch repeated his triple success from the previous year at the German championships, in 1968 he won again with the tandem. At the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City , Kobusch and Stenzel met Trentin and Morelon in the quarter-finals, as in 1964 they were eliminated by the eventual Olympic champions.

In 1969 Kobusch moved back to Bielefeld and was first a trainer and later chairman of the RC Sprintax Bielefeld . The trained cliché etcher later worked as an insurance salesman.

literature

• Karl Lennartz and Walter Teutenberg: Olympic participants in Westphalia. Biographies Athens 1896 to Munich 1972 . Kassel 1993 ISBN 3-928562-58-4

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Sports report of the federal government of September 29, 1973 to the Bundestag - printed matter 7/1040 - page 69
2. ^ Association of German cyclists (ed.): Radsport . No. 16/1966 . Deutscher Sportverlag Kurt Stoof, Cologne 1966, p. 14 .
3. ^ Association of German cyclists (ed.): Radsport . No. 13/1962 . German sports publisher Kurt Stoof, Cologne, p. 9 .

Web links

• Klaus Kobusch in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Results of tandem driving at UCI-Bahn World Championships up to 1994, on sport-komplett.de