Rainer Müller (cyclist)

Rainer Müller
To person
Date of birth	July 30, 1946
nation	Germany
discipline	Train / street
End of career	1972
Societies)
	RC Pfeil Charlottenburg ; (from 1975 RC Charlottenburg )
Most important successes
	UCI track world championships 1970 - tandem
	Last updated: November 23, 2019

Rainer Müller (born July 30, 1946 in Berlin ) is a former German racing cyclist .

Athletic career

At the end of the 1960s and the beginning of the 1970s, Rainer Müller was, together with his club mate Jürgen Barth, the best German rail driver in tandem races . The two became German champions together four times between 1968 and 1972. Her greatest achievement was first place at the 1970 UCI Track World Championships in Leicester . In 1969 and 1971 the duo from the RC Charlottenburg also won the title of runner-up world champions. In 1970 Müller also drove a strong sprint tournament at the world championships , he made it to the round of 16, defeating former world champion Omar Pchakadse .

In 1972 Müller started with Barth in the Olympic Games in tandem races and finished fifth.

After active sport

After the end of his active cycling career, Müller worked as a businessman in the packaging industry. He is an honorary member of his club RC Charlottenburg , with which he is still involved.

Honors

In 1970 Rainer Müller and Jürgen Barth were awarded the Sports Press Golden Ribbon .

successes

1969

Amateur World Championship - tandem race (with Jürgen Barth )
German amateur champion - tandem race (with Jürgen Barth )

1970

Amateur world champion - tandem race (with Jürgen Barth )
German amateur champion - tandem race (with Jürgen Barth )

1971

Amateur World Championship - tandem race (with Jürgen Barth )

1972

German amateur champion - tandem race (with Jürgen Barth )

literature

RC Charlottenburg. 125 years of cycling in Charlottenburg , Berlin 2005

Web links

Rainer Müller in the Radsportseiten.net database

Rainer Müller in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

^ Association of German cyclists (ed.): Radsport . No. 32/1970 . Deutscher Sportverlag Kurt Stoof, Cologne 1970, p. 5 .
↑ ^a ^b Tandem world champion Rainer Müller celebrates his 70th birthday. In: classic.rad-net.de. July 30, 2016, accessed November 23, 2019 .

personal data
SURNAME	Müller, Rainer
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German track cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH	July 30, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH	Berlin

[1] Association of German cyclists (ed.): Radsport . No. 32/1970 . Deutscher Sportverlag Kurt Stoof, Cologne 1970, p. 5 .

[rad-net-967787-2] Tandem world champion Rainer Müller celebrates his 70th birthday. In: classic.rad-net.de. July 30, 2016, accessed November 23, 2019 .