Lutz Lehmann (cyclist)

Lutz Lehmann (born November 18, 1963 in Berlin-Oberschöneweide ) is a former German cyclist and national champion in cycling .

Life

Lutz Lehmann grew up in East Berlin and started cycling in the GDR in the BSG Rotation Prenzlauer Berg . Because of his "western relationship", however, his sporting options were so limited that he submitted an application to leave the country and wrote to Franz Josef Strauss . On charges of betrayal, he was arrested, ransomed in 1985, and in 1987 he moved to West Berlin ( Charlottenburg ), where he joined the RC Charlottenburg association . From 1991 he drove for the club RSG Frankfurt am Main , later switched to Opel Schüler Berlin , RRV Hameln and ultimately to SC DHfK Leipzig . With the RSG Frankfurt he became German champion in the team time trial in 1992 .

Lehmann mainly competed in bike races in Germany, but also made detours to Slovakia ( Tour of Slovakia 1991), Sweden ( Postgirot Open 1992), Switzerland ( GP Tell 1992) and to his first peace ride in 1990 . He also had the greatest success of his cycling career at the International Peace Ride in 1995 : three stages in the leader's yellow jersey . However, on the fourth stage he got a puncture which cost him the lead. In the Berlin Tour he was able to win a total of nine stages at his starts. In 1999, the last year of his career, Rund um Berlin won the race that he wanted to win as a teenager.

In 2011 Lehmann also drove for the "Team Wunderlich" races for everyone .

successes

Summary
year	success		run
1989	3.		Around Berlin
	winner	1st stage	Bavaria tour
1990	3.	Around Berlin
	winner	4th stage	Bavaria tour
1991	3.	Overall rating	Slovakia tour
	2.	Overall rating	Bavaria tour
1992	2.	Overall rating	Lower Saxony tour
	2.	6th stage	Peace ride
	3.	9th stage
1995	winner	1st stage	Peace ride
		2nd stage
	14th	Overall rating
1997	3.		Around Berlin
	3.		Saxony tour
1998	winner	8th stage	Peace ride
1999	winner		Around Berlin

Professional

In the GDR he had completed training as a toolmaker. After finishing his career, he started working as a sales representative for a bicycle company.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Berliner Zeitung from May 1995
2. ^ Spiegel from October 1999
3. ↑ ^{a b c d} Cycling Association Berlin (ed.): Cycling News from Berlin . No. 2/2000 . Berlin, S. 9 .
4. ↑ ^{a b} Mitteldeutsche Zeitung from May 1995
5. ^ RC Charlottenburg (ed.): 125 years of cycling in Charlottenburg . Berlin 2008, p. 65 .
6. ↑ jedermann.rad-net.de
7. ↑ cycling sites
8. ↑ Chronicle of the Saxony Tour ( Memento of the original from February 8, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 

Web links

• Lutz Lehmann in the Radsportseiten.net database