Peder Pedersen

Peder Pedersen medal table
Cyclist
Denmark
UCI track world championships
bronze	1969 Brno	sprint
silver	1970 Leicester	sprint
silver	1971 Varese	1000 meter time trial
gold	1974 Montreal	sprint
silver	1975 Liège	sprint
Olympic games
gold	1968 Mexico City	Team pursuit

Peder Pedersen (born November 3, 1945 in Nørre Nærå near Otterup ; † January 9, 2015 ) was a Danish cyclist .

Peder Pedersen was world champion in 1974 and twice ( 1970 in the amateurs and 1975 in the professionals) vice world champion in the sprint and in 1971 in the 1000-meter time trial at UCI track world championships between 1969 and 1975 and also European champion in sprint in 1975. He also took part in the Olympic Games in 1964 , 1968 and 1972 ; In 1968 he won the gold medal with the Danish four-wheeler . He was ten times Danish champion in sprint (amateurs and professionals) and once Danish champion each in the 1000-meter time trial and with the four-wheeler. On June 27, 1974, he set a world record of 1: 07.49 minutes in Rome over 1000 meters with a standing start.

During his career as an active athlete, Pedersen went into the police force and rose to head of the Funen traffic police .

From 1977 to 1992 Pedersen was also national coach of the Danmarks Cykle Union (DCU), from 1977 to 1990 also a board member of the DCU and finally its president from 1990 to 2006. From 1993 to 1997 he was also a member of the amateur board of the Union Cycliste Internationale and, since 2005, its management committee.

Web links

• Peder Pedersen in the Radsportseiten.net database
• Peder Pedersen in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Cycling stars over Pedersen

Individual evidence

1. ↑ La mort de Peder Pedersen. L'Équipe , January 11, 2015, accessed January 11, 2015 (French).