Reinhard Alber

Reinhard Alber

To person
Date of birth	February 6, 1964
nation	Germany
discipline	Train (endurance)
End of career	1989
Societies)
-1989	RSG Heilbronn
Most important successes
World champion team pursuit
Last updated: October 18, 2019

Reinhard Alber (born February 6, 1964 in Singen am Hohentwiel ) is a former German racing cyclist . In 1984 he won an Olympic bronze medal in the team pursuit .

As a teenager, Alber was successful in swimming and ice skating, among other things, until he dedicated himself to cycling at the age of 14. Trained by Karl Link , Alber quickly found his way to the top of the world. As early as 1981 he won the single pursuit of the Junior World Championships , the following year he finished third. 1984 won Alber after five junior titles his first German championship in the senior category than that for the RSG Heilbronn propelled Alber, together with the Böblingen Gerhard Strittmatter the two-team driving won. He later moved to RSG Böblingen.

In 1983 Rolf Gölz , Roland Günther , Michael Marx and Gerhard Strittmatter won the world championship title in the team pursuit . Just before the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles , Strittmatter tested positive for anabolic steroids. For this, Reinhard Alber moved up to the German four-wheeler at short notice.

In Los Angeles, the German four-man with Alber, Gölz, Günther and Marx drove the third fastest time in the qualification and eliminated the French team in the quarter-finals, in the semi-finals the Germans were overtaken by the US-Americans. The Italians had set the fastest qualifying time, but after the semi-final defeat against the later Olympic champions from Australia in the battle for the bronze medal, they no longer had the strength to set a best time and so the four Germans won the bronze medal.

Reinhard Alber was still active for a few years after winning the medal, but was unable to achieve any major successes.

literature

• Volker Kluge : Summer Olympic Games. Chronicle III: Mexico City 1968 - Los Angeles 1984 . Sportverlag Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-328-00741-5
• National Olympic Committee for Germany: Los Angeles 1984. The Olympic team of the Federal Republic of Germany . Frankfurt am Main 1984

Professional

Alber completed his training as a technical draftsman.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Association of German Cyclists (ed.): Cycling . No. 27/1984 . German sports publisher Kurt Stoof, Cologne, p. 18 .

Web links

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