Manfred Klieme

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GDR champions 1961 in the team pursuit: Manfred Klieme (front), Siegfried Köhler, Bernd Barleben and Wolfgang Schmelzer

Manfred Klieme (born February 3, 1936 in Berlin ) is a former cyclist from the GDR . In 1960 he won an Olympic silver medal in the team pursuit . His nickname is "Alker".

Sports career

After starting cycling with SG Semper Berlin in 1952, Klieme won his first GDR championship title in team pursuit in 1955 with the four-man team from SG Dynamo Karl-Marx-Stadt . Before that, he had already become GDR youth champion in two-man team driving in 1953. Before the 1956 season, Klieme moved to SC Dynamo Berlin , where he trained under Carly Lorenz . Klieme won his second GDR championship title in this discipline in 1959 when the Dynamo four with Peter Gröning , Manfred Klieme, Rolf Nitzsche and Lothar Stäber won the title against the four from SC Rotation Leipzig . He won another title in 1959 when he won the International Omnium Championship on the Berlin Winterbahn with Rolf Nitsche as a partner. Incidentally, the future professional world champion Tom Simpson, who finished 5th, also started in this race. In the same season, he and Rolf Nitsche also won the longest race on the Berlin winter track, the 1001 round for teams of two. In 1960 there was no GDR championship in a four-man game, the Dynamo four-man with Bernd Barleben , Peter Gröning, Manfred Klieme and Siegfried Köhler instead qualified for the all-German team in an internal German duel . At the Olympic Games in Rome in 1960 , the four Berliners reached the final and lost to the Italian foursome there.

In 1961, Klieme and his teammates moved to SC Einheit Berlin , which in turn went up in 1963 at TSC Berlin . In 1961 and 1962 Barleben, Klieme, Köhler and Wolfgang Schmelzer won together at the GDR championships in the team pursuit. Köhler and Schmelzer also won the two-man team race ahead of Barleben and Klieme in 1961, and Barleben and Klieme won in 1962. In 1964 Manfred Klieme won his last GDR championship title behind pacemaker Heinz Stöber in endurance driving .

Professional

Klieme was a trained radio mechanic and worked for VEB Stern-Radio Berlin .

Awards

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Presidium of the Cycling Section of the GDR (Ed.): Cycling Week . No. 9/1953 . Sportverlag, Berlin 1953, p. 4 .
  2. ^ DRSV (ed.): Cycling week . 7th year, no. 6/1959 . Berlin 1959, p. 8 .
  3. ^ DRSV (ed.): Cycling week . 7th year, no. 6/1959 . Berlin 1959, p. 5 .
  4. ^ GDR champion in two-man team driving
  5. ↑ GDR champion in endurance driving
personal data
SURNAME Klieme, Manfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German racing cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH February 3, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin