Paul Popp

Paul Popp (born February 2, 1963 in Vienna ) is a former Austrian cyclist and sports director of a cycling team.

Life

In 1981 Paul Popp won the prestigious Dusika Youth Tour as one of three Austrians, and in 1984 Paul Popp became Austrian state champion in the individual time trial . Two years later he became the national road champion. He won several stages of the Tour of Austria for himself; In 1986 he won the sprint jersey, won the Tour of Lower Austria and, despite bad luck with defects, finished 5th at the world championship in road racing in Colorado Springs . In 1987 , 1988 and 1989 he successfully took part in the Giro d'Italia for professional cyclists. Numerous sprint victories in prestigious races such as Grand Prix Tell , numerous top 3 placements in important races such as Giro d'Italia , Giro dell Trentino, Tour of Sicily, GP Denain and a 7th place near Milan-Sanremo were the milestones of the professional career. In 1990 he became Austrian runner-up on the road. He won a total of thirteen national titles (in the 1,000 meter time trial , in the Omnium , in the team pursuit and in the two-man team event ).

In 1984 Popp took part in the Olympic Games in Los Angeles .

The three brothers Popps, Reinhard, Helmut and Martin, were also racing cyclists. For years, Popp led the Elk cycling team together with Bernhard Rassinger until it was dissolved at the end of 2009.

Professionally, Popp was initially a sales representative at Elk Prefabricated House . From 2003 to 2009 he was sales manager at Bien-Zenker in Germany. From 2009 to 2012 he was sales manager for Weberhaus in Austria. Popp has been head of sales at Haas Fertigbau Austria since 2014, and for Haas Fertigbau Germany and Switzerland since May 2015 .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ^ Otto Vesely: Radsport Archiv 1945 to 2000 . Vienna 2000, p. o. p .