Klemens Großimlinghaus

Klemens Großimlinghaus

To person
Date of birth	December 6, 1941
date of death	June 27, 1991
nation	Germany
discipline	Train / street
End of career	1968
Most important successes
UCI track world championships 1963 - team pursuit
Last updated: November 23, 2019

Klemens Großimlinghaus (born December 6, 1941 in Krefeld ; † June 27, 1991 there ) was a German racing cyclist .

Athletic career

In 1961 (with Lothar Claesges ) and 1963 (with Ernst Streng ) Klemens Großimlinghaus won the Silver Eagle of Cologne . In the summer of 1961, both were the most successful teams in German track cycling with eight wins and six podium places. In 1963 he became German champion in the team pursuit . In the same year he won the title of runner-up in the world championship in Rocourt near Liège with the German four-man team (Ernst Streng, Karl-Heinz Henrichs , Lothar Claesges) . Then he went over to the professionals . As an amateur he started for the Dust Cloud Krefeld club .

In 1967 Großimlinghaus was a two-time German champion, in two-man team driving and in the Omnium . In addition, he took several podium places in German championships; In 1968 he took part in the Tour de France , but gave up during the third stage. He also started in 40 six-day races , of which he won the one in Montreal with Klaus Bugdahl in 1965 .

Miscellaneous

Klemens Großimlinghaus was the son of the Krefeld cycling idol Clemens Großimlinghaus (* 1907), called "Mücke". The early death of Klemens Großimlinghaus at the age of 49 gave rise to speculation about doping , as around 20 racing drivers of his generation, including Ernst Streng, also died relatively young.

20 years after his death, paintings created by Klemens Großimlinghaus were shown on the initiative of his wife Heike in the Greiffenhorst house in Krefeld .

successes

1961

• German amateur champion - Omnium, two-man team driving (with Lothar Claesges )

1962

• German amateur champion - Omnium

1963

• World Championship - Team Pursuit (with Lothar Claesges , Ernst Streng and Karl-Heinz Henrichs )
• German amateur champion - team pursuit (with Lothar Claesges , Ernst Streng and Hans-Peter Kanters )

1965

• Six days of Montreal (with Klaus Bugdahl )

1967

• German champion - two-man team driving (with Winfried Bölke )

Web links

• Klemens Großimlinghaus in the Radsportseiten.net database
• klemens-grossimlinghaus in the ProCyclingStats.com database

Individual evidence

1. ^ Association of German cyclists (ed.): Radsport . No. 7/1962 . German sports publisher Kurt Stoof, Cologne, p. 14 .
2. ^ Association of German cyclists (ed.): Radsport . No. 50/1962 . German sports publisher Kurt Stoof, Cologne, p. 6 .
3. ^ Doping on cycling4fans.de
4. ↑ High mortality rate among professional cyclists on netzeitung.de v. July 6, 2001 ( Memento from September 5, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
5. ^ Westdeutsche Zeitung: Klemens Großimlinghaus exhibition - cycling legend and artist. In: wz.de. November 30, 2011, accessed November 23, 2019 .