Rainer Podlesch

Rainer Podlesch

Rainer Podlesch (2017)
To person
Date of birth	4th October 1944 (age 75)
nation	Germany
discipline	Train (endurance)
Most important successes
UCI track world championships 1976, 1983 - Standing race
Last updated: July 28, 2017

Rainer Podlesch (born October 4, 1944 in Dobbertin ) is a former German racing cyclist and today's trainer.

Career

From 1965 to 1986 Podlesch, a member of the SV Zehlendorfer Eichhörnchen, was part of the German national cycling team. In the four-four he was second at the Olympic Games in Mexico City (with Jürgen Colombo , Jürgen Kißner , Udo Hempel and Karl Link ), but after the first round he was exchanged for Kißner due to injury. In 1967 he was third in the World Cup in Amsterdam (with Link, Kißner and Karl-Heinz Henrichs ) in the team pursuit and at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich he drove in the four-wheeler (20th place).

However, Rainer Podlesch had his greatest successes with the standing . He was world champion twice, in 1978 and 1983. In addition, he was several times vice world champion and third at world championships.

Until 2013, Rainer Podlesch was the representative for standing sport at the Association of German Cyclists , until he was replaced by Mario Vonhof .

He is the father of Carsten Podlesch (* 1969) and the older brother of Karsten Podlesch (* 1955), both of whom are also cyclists.

successes

train

1967

• Amateur World Championship - Team Pursuit (with Karl-Heinz Henrichs , Jürgen Kißner and Karl Link )

1971

• World Championship (Amateurs) - Standing Race (behind Norbert Koch )
• German Champion - Team Pursuit (with Günther Schumacher , Peter Vonhof and Bernd Jaroszewicz )

1973

• World Championship (Amateurs) - Standing Race (behind Peter Schindler )
• German Champion - Team Pursuit (with Peter Vonhof , Friedhelm Klenner and Michael Becker )

1974

• German Champion - Team Pursuit (with Algis Oleknavicius , Michael Becker and Peter Vonhof )

1976

• World Championship (Amateurs) - Standing Race (behind Christian Dippel )

1978

• World Champion (Amateurs) - Standing Race (behind Dieter Durst )

1981

• World Championship (Amateurs) - Standing Race (behind Dieter Durst )

1982

• World Championship (Amateurs) - Standing Race (behind Peter Schindler )

1983

• World Champion (Amateurs) - Standing Race (behind Dieter Durst )

Street

1971

• a stage Berlin stage trip

1972

• German champion - team time trial (with Michael Becker and Algis Oleknavicius )

1974

• German champion - team time trial (with Algis Oleknavicius , Michael Becker and Olaf Paltian )

1977

• Berlin stage trip

1978

• German champion - team time trial (with Olaf Paltian and Volker Kassun )

Web links

Commons : Rainer Podlesch  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Rainer Podlesch in the Radsportseiten.net database
• Rainer Podlesch in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Vonhof is the new representative for standing sports in the BDR. In: rad-net.de. April 8, 2013, accessed July 31, 2017 .