Oskar Breitling

Oskar Breitling (born March 16, 1872 in Kaiserslautern , † June 6, 1960 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German racing cyclist .

Oskar Breitling began his racing career as an amateur . He mostly competed in aviation races (today: sprinters ), and often competed in tandem races . As a professional driver he won a. a. against the world champion August Lehr . In 1892 he became the first German stand-up master . In the same year and 1893 he was national sprint runner-up. In 1897 he came second in the Sprint European Championship in Cologne behind Willy Arend .

At the end of the 1900 season, Breitling ended his racing career and became a car mechanic . After the Second World War he worked as a “ factotum ” on the cycle race track in Frankfurt.

Web links

Results of the German Stayer Championships 1892-2005 (PDF file; 92 kB)
Oskar Breitling in the Radsportseiten.net database

literature

Hans Borowik : 300 racing drivers in one volume. Short biographies. , Deutscher Schriftenverlag, Berlin 1937

Individual evidence

↑ Interest group for cycling (ed.): The cycling . No. 7/8/1948 . Sportdienst Verlag Zademack and Noster, Cologne, p. 2 .

personal data
SURNAME	Breitling, Oskar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Breitling, Oscar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German racing cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH	March 16, 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH	Kaiserslautern
DATE OF DEATH	June 6, 1960
Place of death	Frankfurt am Main

[1] Interest group for cycling (ed.): The cycling . No. 7/8/1948 . Sportdienst Verlag Zademack and Noster, Cologne, p. 2 .