Pavel Doležel

Pavel Doležel (born November 30, 1940 in Černá Hora , Moravia ) is a former cyclist , sports official , director of the Peace Tour and a doctor . He belonged to Club Favorit Brno .

career

Career as a doctor

After his first doctorate in 1973 at Masaryk University in Brno , Doležel worked in Bratislava as a specialist in gynecology and obstetrics from 1977 . In 1982 he moved to Prague, where he became a specialist in sports medicine. At the same time he was from 1979 to 198 association doctor for cycling at the Sports Medical University Clinic in Brno. In 1989 he received the additional qualification in sports medicine in Stuttgart . From 1988 to 1997, he took over the sports medical care of top athletes in various sports at the Olympic base in Stuttgart . Doležel received his doctorate a second time in 1991, this time at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen . He completed acupuncture training in 1996 in Munich with the diploma A, and in 1999 he became a specialist in general medicine in Stuttgart.

Career as a cyclist

From 1963 to 1968 he was the driver and captain of the Czechoslovak national team for the International Peace Tour , in which he started six times and achieved two stage wins. When he made his peace run debut in 1963, he was already 11th in the overall individual ranking, in 1964 with a stage win 14th and in 1965 second with another stage win. In 1966 he finished 13th overall on the "Course de la Paix", in 1967 he was 8th and in 1968 he was 16th.

Once he competed in the Tour de l`Avenir (1963) and finished in 55th place. In international stage races, he was the winner of the Scottish Milk Race in 1965 , second in the Tour of Slovakia in 1966 and fifth in the Tour of Austria in 1967 , where he was able to celebrate two stage wins. His best placement at the road world championships he achieved in 1967 with the 13th place, while at the end of his career in 1974 he won the bronze medal for the 3rd place at the rail world championships in the team pursuit . Shortly before that, he had become the Czech team pursuit champion with Dukla Brno's team. At the UCI Road World Championships in 1966 on the Nürburgring , he finished 52nd in the amateur road race .

At the age of 33, he ended his active cycling career that same year.

Director of the Peace Tour

From 1993 to 2005 Pavel Doležel was the director of the peace trip in the Merk agency. Doležel and the organizer for the German part, Jörg Strenger , got into a dispute over the trademark “Friedensfahrt”. Gustav-Adolf Schur had assigned the rights to the word "Friedensfahrt" and the logo (the dove of peace) to Strenger. Doležel and Strenger then stopped their work on the Peace Tour.

Honors

In 1965, Pavel Doležel was the winner of the annual survey of the Král cyklistiky ( cycling king ) of the Československý svaz cyklistiky cycling association. He was the first cyclist to receive this honor.

Individual evidence

^ New Germany (Ed.): XVII. Course de la Paix . Berlin 1964, p. 5 .
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^ German Cycling Association of the GDR (ed.): The cyclist . No. 34/1974 . Berlin, S. 3 .
^ Association of German cyclists (ed.): Radsport . No. 35/1966 . Deutscher Sportverlag Kurt Stoof, Cologne 1966, p. 10 .
↑ Friedensfahrt-Info Jörg Strenger is the supervisor of the Team Wiesenhof cycling team