Mario grief

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Mario Kummer at the 1993 Tour de France
Grief in 2014

Mario Kummer (born May 6, 1962 in Suhl ) is a former German cyclist who started as an amateur for the GDR and became a professional athlete after the reunification .

Sports career

He appeared for the first time by winning the ranking for the best young driver in the 1982 GDR tour . His greatest successes were two world championships in 100-kilometer team driving (1981 and 1989) and winning a gold medal in the same discipline at the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul , for which he was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit in Gold. He received this medal in 1984.

After the reunification he became a professional and drove for the Italian team Château D´Ax (as a noble helper of Gianni Bugno ). In 1993 he switched to the Telekom team . After finishing his career in 1998, he worked as a regional coach in Bavaria . In 1999 he became the sporting director of Team Telekom. From 2004 to 2005 he was the sports director of the racing team renamed T-Mobile Team . After the team was restructured in 2006, he was Sports Technical Director until the end of July 2006. However, after strong criticism and accusations that he had prevented Klödens possible tour victory in the Tour de France 2006 through tactical mistakes, he was dismissed at the end of 2006. In 2007, Kummer worked as the sporting director for the Astana team .

In connection with the cycling doping scandal at Team Telekom between 1995 and 1997, Mario Kummer admitted that he had also consumed doping substances during the said period. However, this message was denied shortly afterwards.

Kummer lives in Puschendorf in Bavaria, is married and has a daughter.

Web links

Commons : Mario Kummer  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Neues Deutschland , 12./13. November 1988, p. 4
  2. ^ New Germany, 1./2. September 1984, p. 4
  3. ↑ Mario Kummer mentions sport director at Astana on standaard.be v. November 27, 2006 (Dutch)
  4. ↑ Heute.de ( Memento from October 17, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ Sport.ARD.de No doping confession of grief ( Memento from June 9, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Grief, mario
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH May 6, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Suhl