Norbert Dürpisch

Norbert Dürpisch at the GDR rail championships in 1977

Norbert Dürpisch (born May 29, 1952 in Genthin ) is a former German cyclist and two-time world champion.

Athletic career

Norbert Dürpisch started cycling in his hometown with the " BSG Einheit Genthin" and was delegated from there in autumn 1968 to the Army Sports Club Forward Frankfurt (Oder) . He later rose to lieutenant in the National People's Army . In 1967 he won his first championship title; he was GDR champion in road racing in the youth class B. At the 1970 Spartakiade , he competed in five competitions. At first he drove on the road - for example stage races in Algeria - and on the train , after finishing fifth in the team pursuit at the 1973 World Championships, he finally decided to focus on individual and team pursuits.

In 1975 Dürpisch won bronze at the world championship in team pursuit with Klaus-Jürgen Grünke , Thomas Huschke and Uwe Unterwalder . In 1976 and 1977 he won the legendary 1001 round on the Berlin winter track with Dieter Stein from TSC Berlin. In 1977 he became world champion in both disciplines in San Cristobal , in the team together with Volker Winkler , Gerald Mortag and Matthias Wiegand . Twice - in 1976 and 1977 - he was GDR champion in the single pursuit; once in the team pursuit and in 1976 second in the GDR standing championship; several times he took podium places. In 1978 he also won the Thuringia Tour . At the World Railroad Championships in the same year, he was tested positive for anabolic steroids in the first doping test and was disqualified.

1976 Dürpisch started at the Olympic Games in Montréal in the team pursuit (with Huschke, Unterwalder and Wiegand); the track four took fourth place.

Professional

Dürpisch completed an apprenticeship as an electrician. After finishing his active cycling career, Dürpisch worked as a trainer and looked after, among other things, the five-time winner of the peace ride, Steffen Wesemann .

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• Volker Kluge : Summer Olympic Games. The Chronicle III. Mexico City 1968 - Los Angeles 1984. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-328-00741-5 .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} German Cycling Association of the GDR (Ed.): The cyclist . No. 4/1974 . Berlin 1974, p. 2 .
2. ^ German Cycling Association of the GDR (ed.): The cyclist . January 1976, January 1977. Berlin.