Martin Penc

Martin Penc (born January 25, 1957 in Prague ) is a former Czechoslovak cyclist .

Penc, who started for the Dukla Prague club , won the national championships in the individual pursuit and the team pursuit in 1979. In 1980 Martin Penc won the bronze medal in the team pursuit at the Olympic Games in Moscow , together with Igor Sláma , Teodor Černý and Jiří Pokorný . In the single pursuit he made it to the quarterfinals and was eliminated there against Harald Wolf from the GDR . The following year, the Czechoslovak track four (Penc, Aleš Trčka , František Raboň and Eugeniusz Pokorný ) came third at the World Track Championships . At the UCI track world championships in 1985 in Bassano del Grappa , Penc was world champion in points . At the World Track Championships in Maebashi , Japan , he was third in the same discipline.

In 1990 Penc and the Russian Marat Satybaldijew started as the first professionals from the former Eastern Bloc in the Berlin six-day race ; the team finished fifth.

Honors

In 1985, Martin Penc was the winner of the annual survey for the Král cyklistiky ( cycling king ) by the Československý svaz cyklistiky cycling association.

Individual evidence

1. ^ German Cycling Association of the GDR (ed.): The cyclist . No. 33/1979 . Berlin 1979, p. 3 .
2. ↑ After 20 years the Russian team at the start in Berlin again on six days of racing Berlin .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ Král cyklistiky. Retrieved April 8, 2019 (Czech). 

Web links

• Martin Penc in the Radsportseiten.net database
• Martin Penc in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )