Rainer Marks

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Rainer Marks (born October 11, 1941 in Bergen auf Rügen ; † July 21, 2019 in Leipzig ) was a former German cyclist . He was active in the GDR in the 1960s .

Athletic career

Marks began to do organized cycling in 1958 , his first sports community was the company sports community (BSG) unit Bergen with coach Bogislaw Scheunemann. In 1962 he moved to the GDR cycling center SC DHfK Leipzig , where in the men's area immediately attracted attention when he won the ranking for the best young rider in the GDR tour . In the 1963 GDR tour, the 1.78 m tall Marks won four stages and came third in the overall standings. In 1964 he won his first GDR classic with the one-day race Berlin-Freienwalde-Berlin . The longest cycle race in the GDR Berlin-Cottbus-Berlin followed in 1966 .

Marks had his most successful cycling season in 1967. After he had won the Grand Prix of Algeria , he was also able to prevail in the elimination races for the International Peace Ride. In the largest amateur stage race , which led from Warsaw via East Berlin to Prague in 1967, he won two stages as a newcomer and was ninth in the final standings as the second best GDR driver. He also won the GDR one-day races around Leipzig , around Sebnitz and the Great Saxony Prize .

His only podium place in the GDR championships he got in 1968 with the DHfK four, with which he reached third place in the team time trial. In the same year Marks was able to qualify again for the peace trip, but this time came as the second worst GDR participant only in 18th place. After the 1968 season, Marks lost his place in the GDR national team and did not achieve any further cycling successes.

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Web links

Commons : Rainer Marks  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Obituaries of Rainer Marks | trauer-haben.de , accessed on May 14, 2020.
  2. ^ German Cycling Association of the GDR (ed.): The cyclist . Born in 1967, No. 17 . Berlin April 28, 1967, p. 8 .