Rainer Marx

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Rainer Marx (* 1943 in Chemnitz ) is a former German track cyclist .

Marx only competed in track races. His profession was the track sprint . He started for SC Karl-Marx-Stadt , of which he remained a member throughout his career. His biggest success was the victory in the East German championships in track sprint 1963. That year he also won the Grand Prize of the GDR before the Dutchman Piet van der Touw , where he all three tournaments in Karl-Marx-Stadt , Leipzig and Berlin won . He was also a very successful tandem driver . In this discipline he won the GDR championship title three times: in 1962 with Richard Schöne, in 1965 with Bernd Junge and in 1966 with Karl Richter. With the later world champion Jürgen Geschke he also won the silver medal on the tandem in 1964, with Schöne he was third in 1963. He never started at the UCI World Championships , however, because the GDR cycling association judged its sprinters to be too weak to participate, and the GDR team at the beginning of 1962 to 1964 did not receive visas for travel to Western Europe due to a decision by the NATO states.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ German Cycling Association of the GDR (ed.): The cyclist . No. 14/1963 . Berlin 1963, p. 2 .
  2. ^ German Cycling Association of the GDR (ed.): The cyclist . No. 14/1963 . Berlin 1963, p. 3 .
  3. ^ German Cycling Association of the GDR (ed.): The cyclist . No. 31/1964 . Berlin 1964, p. 1 .
  4. ^ German Cycling Association of the GDR (ed.): The cyclist . No. 16/1963 . Berlin 1963, p. 2 .
personal data
SURNAME Marx, Rainer
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Chemnitz