Olaf Arndt
Olaf Arndt (born December 31, 1963 in Berlin ) is a former German racing cyclist who was active in the GDR , and junior world champion in cycling .
Athletic career
He was a member of the TSC Berlin club when he celebrated the greatest success of his sporting career in 1981. At the UCI Junior World Championships in sprinting , he won the gold medal after finishing second behind Maic Malchow the year before . In the final he beat the Italian Rampazzo . In that year, as a junior, he was also able to win the Sprint Grand Prix of Budapest in the elite class . In 1982 he finished second at the Italian and Copenhagen Grand Prix, and finished fourth at the GDR Grand Prix. In the next few years he still had a few top places in sprint tournaments (about 3rd place in the Polish Grand Prix in 1984), but could no longer build on the great successes as a junior. In 1987 he ended his career.
Web links
- Olaf Arndt in the Radsportseiten.net database
Individual evidence
- ↑ Harry Van den Bremt, Rene Jacobs: Velo Plus . Ed .: Velo. Dendermonde 1988, p. 495 .
- ^ German Cycling Association of the GDR (ed.): The cyclist . No. 27/1982 . Berlin 1982, p. 1 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Arndt, Olaf |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German cyclist, junior world champion in cycling |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 31, 1963 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |