Leonard Nitz
Leonard Harvey Nitz (born September 30, 1956 in Hamilton ) is a former American track cyclist .
Leonard was one of the dominant track cyclists in the United States from the 1970s through the 1980s. He won 13 national titles in the individual and team pursuit disciplines and in the 1000-meter time trial . At the UCI track world championships in 1981 in Brno he was runner-up in the world championship and third in the points race at the 1986 track world championships in Colorado Springs . In 1987 he won the gold medal in the team pursuit at the Pan American Games in Indianapolis , together with Carl Sundquist , Dave Lettieri and David Brinton .
Nitz competed three times - in 1976 , 1984 and 1988 - at the Olympic Games. In 1984, in Los Angeles , he won two medals, a silver one in the team pursuit (with Dave Grylls , Steve Hegg , Pat Donough and Brent Emery ) and a bronze one in the singles pursuit, behind his teammate from the four-way track Hegg, who won gold, as well the German Rolf Gölz .
Shortly after the Olympic competitions in Los Angeles, it turned out that Hegg and Nitz had doped each other with foreign blood. However, this had no consequences for the athletes, as this practice was not yet prohibited at the time.
Individual evidence
Web links
- Leonard Nitz in the database of Radsportseiten.net
- Leonard Nitz in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
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| SURNAME | Nitz, Leonard |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Nitz, Leonard Harvey (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American track cyclist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 30, 1956 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamilton |