Lutz Haueisen

Lutz Haueisen in January 1978 on the winter track

Lutz Haueisen (born October 12, 1958 in Jena ) is a former German racing cyclist from the German Democratic Republic who won two world championship titles in track cycling.

Athletic career

Haueisen began cycling in 1971, and since 1973 he has been training at SG Wismut Gera under coach Klaus Aurich . In 1978 Haueisen won the GDR championship on the winter track in the pursuit race. In 1979 he became world champion in team pursuit together with Gerald Mortag , Axel Grosser and Volker Winkler . Gerald Mortag and Volker Winkler competed in the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow . After missing the Olympic chance caused by a serious fall, Haueisen specialized in the points race , which was to be part of the Olympic program from 1984. Already in 1981 he won the world championship title for amateurs, shortly before that he had already proven his outstanding form at the UCI Mocca Cup in Budapest by winning the single pursuit. In 1982 he placed 10th at the UCI World Championship . In 1983 Haueisen won the GDR winter track championship in points driving. After he could not take part in the Olympic premiere in points race because of the Olympic boycott of the GDR in 1984, he won the European Cup. 1985 Lutz Haueisen became GDR championship in points race. On the Werner-Seelenbinder-Halle track in Berlin, he won the "International Two-Team Championship" in 1982 with Gerald Mortag as a partner.

Lutz Haueisen ended his active career in 1987.

Professional

Lutz Haueisen has completed a sports degree. He runs a cycling shop in Gera. He is the father of Dennis Haueisen , in 2004 and 2005 Dennis Haueisen rode in a team RSH (Radshop Haueisen) sponsored by his father. Until the end of 2009 Lutz Haueisen and his wife Sylvia Haueisen were active in the Continental Team Milram and as the sporting director of the Thuringian RSH team.

literature

• Volker Kluge : The great lexicon of GDR athletes. The 1000 most successful and popular athletes from the GDR, their successes and biographies. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89602-348-9 .

Web links

• Lutz Haueisen in the Radsportseiten.net database
• GDR winter railway championships

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Rene Jacobs et al. a. (Ed.): VELO . 27th year. Brussels 1982, p. 187 .
2. ↑ 60 is just a number. In: Ost-Thüringer Zeitung online. Retrieved May 4, 2019 .