Lothar Höhne (cyclist)
Lothar Höhne (born September 30, 1938 in Marzahna near Wittenberg) is a former German racing cyclist who was active in the GDR in the 50s and 60s .
Athletic career
Höhne began his career as a cyclist in 1955 at BSG Chemie Piesteritz . He achieved his successes without exception as a road driver. In 1958, at the age of 19, he competed in his first stage race when he started the GDR tour in the Halle district team and was 37th in the final ranking. From 1959 he rode in the jersey of the SC Rotation Leipzig (where he rose to performance class I in a very short time) after its dissolution from 1963 to 1966 for the army sports club Vorwärts Leipzig . He was twice GDR champion in the 100 km team time trial , in 1959 with the SC Rotation and in 1965 with the ASK Vorwärts. In 1959 he also won the Tour of Slovakia in front of the Czechoslovak local hero Jan Malten and was twice a stage winner. 3 stage wins on the Tour of Romania were also among his palmares in 1960.
The GDR cycling association nominated Höhne for the 1960 road world championship , which was held at the Sachsenring . Of the six participating GDR drivers, he achieved the fifth-best place with rank 34. In 1961, Höhne was part of the GDR squad for the International Peace Trip Warsaw - East Berlin - Prague. As a newcomer to the Friedensfahrt he won the first stage “Around Warsaw”, drove a stage in the yellow jersey and achieved second place in the team standings with the GDR team. In the overall individual ranking, he came in 28th. After a serious fall at the Harz Mountain Prize, he had to end the season. In the following year he belonged again to the GDR sextet of the Peace Trip and came in 34th.
In 1962 and 1963, Höhne won the classic one-day race around Berlin . He won the traditional Berlin-Angermünde-Berlin race in 1963. In stage races, he achieved good performances in 1963 with second place in the overall ranking of the Tour of Hungary and in 1966 with two stage wins in the Tour of the GDR , but was not called back to the GDR national team . At the age of 28, he ended his sports career in the fall of 1967 after winning the Kriterium in Gdynia, Poland.
Professional
He is a trained car mechanic.
Web links
- Lothar Höhne in the Radsportseiten.net database
Individual evidence
- ↑ Neues Deutschland , May 3, 1961, p. 6
- ↑ Jacobs et al. (Ed.): VELO . 10th year. Brussels 1984, p. 182 .
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Höhne, Lothar |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German cyclist, GDR champion |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th century |