Martin Gombert

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Martin Gombert (born March 14, 1943 in Ahlen , † January 5, 2004 in Warendorf ) was a German racing cyclist .

Athletic career

Gombert started for the RRG Bremen association in 1961 . In 1966 he drew attention to himself by winning the bronze medal at the German championship in the street race of amateurs (behind the winner Paul Unterkircher ). He had previously finished second in the Flèche du Sud race in Luxembourg . A year later he had his greatest sporting success with victory in the Rhineland-Palatinate Tour in front of Jürgen Goletz . In the same year he was at the start of the International Peace Tour , which he finished in 26th place. With the national Gombert was at the 1967 UCI Road World Championships in the Netherlands in the team time trial in fourth. Although he was pre-nominated for the Summer Olympics in Mexico , Gombert was removed from the team shortly before the Games in 1968. In the fall of 1967 he had to put his plans to become a professional on hold when the Association of German Cyclists (BDR) refused to give him permission for a professional driver license with reference to his obligations as an Olympic squad.

In 1968 he became a professional driver in the Batavus team , in which Hennes Junkermann was the captain. Gombert drove a few six-day races, albeit without great success .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Association of German cyclists (ed.): Radsport . No. 27/1967 . Deutscher Sportverlag Kurt Stoof, Cologne 1967, p. 9 .
  2. ↑ Maik Märtin: 50 years of Course de la Paix . Agency Construct, Leipzig 1998, p. 237 .
  3. ↑ Martin Gombert. In: rsf67ahlen.de. January 5, 2004, accessed March 12, 2020 .
  4. ^ Association of German cyclists (ed.): Radsport . No. 38/1967 . Deutscher Sportverlag Kurt Stoof, Cologne 1967, p. 3 .
  5. ^ Association of German cyclists (ed.): Radsport . No. 3/1970 . Deutscher Sportverlag Kurt Stoof, Cologne 1970, p. 8 .
personal data
SURNAME Gombert, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German racing cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH March 14, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Awls
DATE OF DEATH January 5, 2004
Place of death Warendorf