Olaf Jentzsch

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Olaf Jentzsch (born December 3, 1958 in Riesa ) is a former German racing cyclist from the GDR .

Olaf Jentzsch (left)

Athletic career

Olaf Jentzsch trained as an electrician . He later studied sports science and graduated as a certified sports teacher. When he competed, he weighed 72 kilograms and was 178 centimeters tall. His coaches at SC Cottbus were Manfred Nitschke and the former world champion Bernd Drogan . In addition, his father and Cottbus Eberhard Pöschke played a major role in his sporting development. He is married and has two children. At the age of twelve he began regular cycling training in a company sports club run by Stahl Riesa - the SC Riesa . In 1977 he reached second place in the GDR road cycling championships .

The Peace Race ended Jentzsch 1984 as fifth in 1988 and 1989 fourth second behind UWE AMPLER . He was in the squad for the peace drive several times, but since he said he mostly only reached his form at the end of May, he could not prevail in the qualifying races several times. Before the Peace Trip in 1989 , he completed two altitude training courses in Colombia . This effort was rewarded with second place, the greatest success of his career as a cyclist , in addition to several other victories in important amateur tours. He made his breakthrough in 1985 when he won the Tour of Austria, in which, with the support of Jens Heppner , he was able to lose nine minutes from the previous leader Richard Trinkler on the last stage . Jentzsch was a strong mountain rider. He demonstrated that u. a. on the Tour of Cuba in 1983, when in the ascent to Gran Piedra (1,226 meters rise from sea level without switchbacks) almost the entire route led and over the last 6 kilometers he was still one and a half minutes ahead of his rival in the overall classification - Jiří Škoda . He achieved something similar in the Colorado Tour ("Coors Classic") in July 1983, when he was able to win the queen stage, the "Colorado National Monument", against the assembled South American elite and the native Americans. There the stages partly led to an altitude of 3800 meters. This is exactly where Jentzsch had a puncture after his trainer Wolfram Lindner helped him get back on his bike. Lindner described the situation in which he pushed his driver back on as follows: "After the short push at an altitude of 3800 meters, I felt as if I had run a marathon in record time." Jentzsch finished the tour in fourth. Several titles in the mountain time trial in the GDR, stage wins in mountain stages in Colombia, the USA, Austria, Yugoslavia, Greece and Cuba underpinned his reputation as a strong mountain rider. At home he mainly trained in the lowlands. His maxim was: "Everyone has to go up the mountains". At his club SC Cottbus he was long in the shadow of Bernd Drogan and Hans-Joachim Hartnick . Drogan later became one of his coaches, which did not remain free of conflict when Drogan seamlessly switched from the racing saddle to the coaching profession. It took time for the two to balance their relationship. He also achieved an extraordinary performance on the last evening of the amateur six-day race in Berlin on December 20, 1980 in the Werner-Seelenbinder-Halle , when he and his partner Ulf Gebeler set five new track records and won the stage with his partner.

It was not until 1990 that Olaf Jentzsch decided to pursue a professional career with the Belgian cycling team Tulip Computers . In 1992 he drove a few stages of the Tour de France , but could not record any success in the new profession and ended his career in the same year.

successes

1977
  • silver GDR championship - team time trial
1979
1981
  • silver GDR championship - team time trial
  • gold GDR championship - road race
1983
1984
  • silver GDR Championship - Mountain
  • silver GDR championship - team time trial
  • gold GDR championship - road race
1985
1986
  • gold GDR championship - road race
  • Overall ranking Oder-Rundfahrt (Germany)
1987

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d German sports echo . Berlin May 23, 1989, p. 2 .
  2. ↑ RSC Cottbus ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.rsc-cottbus.de
  3. ^ German Cycling Association of the GDR (ed.): The cyclist . No. 10/1983 . Berlin 1983, p. 2 .
  4. ↑ Young world . Berlin July 20, 1983, p. 8 .

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personal data
SURNAME Jentzsch, Olaf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German racing cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd December 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Riesa , GDR