Otto Bennewitz

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Otto Bennewitz Road cycling
Otto Bennewitz, 1968
Otto Bennewitz, 1968
To person
Date of birth June 10, 1946
nation GermanyGermany Germany
discipline Road, rail
Most important successes

German champion (winter track) in two-man team driving, twice second and five times third in the German championships

Last updated: July 16, 2010
Berliner Sportpalast, starter Barbara Valentin (1968)
Otto Bennewitz (below) and Horst Oldenburg, Festhalle Frankfurt / Main (1970)

Otto Bennewitz (born June 10, 1946 in Wurzen ) is a former German cyclist .

Career

In 1961 he competed in the first cycle race with his brother Andreas and joined the German national team a year later in 1962 for three years as a youth rider. In 1963 he reached 3rd place in the German Road Youth Championship in Worms and 2nd place in the same discipline in Hameln in 1964. Otto Bennewitz drove four years as a youth driver, four years as an amateur ( RC Herpersdorf ) and two years as a professional driver. Otto Bennewitz recorded around 180 victories in track and road races . At German championships he won the title once, twice he was second and five times third. He was Hessian champion 17 times and Bavarian champion once. After ten years he ended his active time as a cyclist. He competed as a railroad driver in the USSR in Leningrad, Tula and Moscow, in Italy in Varese, Turin, Genoa, Ferrara and Forli, in Switzerland and in Zurich. In the Danish Odense ran as a pro.

successes

1965
1966
  • Together with Fritz 1st place German Winter Railway Championship, two-man team driving, in Cologne
  • Together with his brother he took part in the world championships on the cycling track in the Waldstadion in Frankfurt am Main, Andreas as an amateur stalker and Otto as a pursuit driver (10th place).
  • German Championship 4000 m club team driving RV Adler Frankfurt in Berlin (3rd place)
1967
  • a stage of the Flèche du Sud
  • German Winter Railway Championship in two-man team driving with Albert Fritz in Frankfurt am Main (3rd place)
  • Candidate for the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City
1968
  • German championship 4000 meter single pursuit in Stuttgart (3rd place)
Six days race
1969 (six days)
1970 (six days)

After ten years of active racing, he returned, like his brother before, to his parents' furrier business. Otto Bennewitz lives as a self-employed master furrier in Garmisch-Partenkirchen. He has announced his retirement from business life for the end of February 2020.

Web links

Commons : Otto Bennewitz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Frankfurter Rundschau , June 21, 1968, p. 6
  2. ^ Association of German Cyclists, Giessen: Issue of Olympic passports . Letter dated March 21, 1967.
  3. ^ Frankfurter Rundschau , September 11, 1968

swell

  • -ls-: Frankfurt's Radamateure Impressive , Frankfurter Rundschau No. 89, April 16, 1968, p. 10
  • Helmer Boelsen : The starting shot for the six-day race was fired in Frankfurt , Frankfurter Rundschau No. 255, November 1, 1968, p. 8
  • Frankfurter Rundschau No. 211: Otto Bennewitz turns professional , September 11, 1968
  • Helmer Boelsen: The last races as an amateur. Otto Bennewitz professional from next week. Five six-day races , Frankfurter Rundschau No. 225, September 27, 1968, p. 9
  • www.memoire-du-cyclisme.net
  • www.cykelsiderne.net
personal data
SURNAME Bennewitz, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German racing cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH June 10, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Spice up