Reinhold Pommer

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Reinhold Pommer (born January 6, 1935 in Zigartice ; † March 26, 2014 in Schweinfurt ) was a German racing cyclist who won an Olympic bronze medal in the team classification of the road race in 1956 .

Career

Pommer began cycling at the age of seven and later became a member of the RMC 1950 eV in Schweinfurt . The high point of his career was participation in the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne . As a member of the all-German team , he finished 18th in the individual road race and won the bronze medal in the team classification together with the GDR drivers Gustav-Adolf Schur , Erich Hagen and Horst Tüller . In the Federal Republic of Germany he was awarded the silver bay leaf for this. In the same year Pommer was German runner-up for amateurs in the individual road race. At the UCI road world championships for amateurs he was at the start in 1956 (17th).

In 1958, Pommer, who had previously worked as a bicycle mechanic, moved to the professional driver's camp and signed a contract with the torpedo racing team, which was supported by the Schweinfurt company Fichtel & Sachs . He stayed with the team until the end of his career. At Torpedo he met again Horst Tüller, who had moved to the Federal Republic in 1958. Both took part in the Tour de France in 1958 , but Pommer gave up after the 10th stage. For the second time, Pommer took part in the Tour de France in 1961 , which he had to finish after the first stage. Also at the road world championship in 1958 he got out early.

His only notable victory as a professional driver Pommer achieved in 1959 at the French stage race Tour de l'Oise , in which he won the second part of the day. He finished the race in 34th. Before that, he had achieved second place in the overall standings behind the world champion Rik Van Steenbergen in the 1958 German three-stage race Grand Prix Bali . Also in 1959 he reached twelfth place in the traditional Luxembourg Tour . In addition to his unsuccessful Tour de France participation in 1961, Pommer also took part in the Tour of Germany in the same year , in which he reached 34th place in the final ranking after a third place on the third stage.

Because of an irreparable knee damage, Pommer had to end his sports career in 1962 and took up a job as an insurance salesman, after having completed an apprenticeship as a bicycle mechanic.

literature

  • Pascal Sergent, Guy Crasset, Hervé Dauchy: Mondial Encyclopedie Cyclisme. Volume 3 PZ published in 2000 by the UCI ISBN 90-74128-74-2
  • Helmer Boelsen: The history of the cycling world championship , Bielefeld 2007, ISBN 978-3936973-33-4 , p. 76
  • German sports echo from November 11, 1956 with a short biography

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Olympic bronze winner Reinhold Pommer has passed away. Report on rad-net.de from June 5, 2014 (accessed June 6, 2014).
  2. ^ Association of German cyclists (ed.): Radsport . No. 33/1966 . Deutscher Sportverlag Kurt Stoof, Cologne 1966, p. 8 .
  3. ↑ Rene Jacobs, Hector Mahau: Tour Encyclopedie 1954-1965 . Uitgeverij Worldstrips, Gent 1999, p. 119 .
  4. ^ Association of German cyclists (ed.): Radsport . No. 33/1966 . Deutscher Sportverlag Kurt Stoof, Cologne 1966, p. 8 .
  5. ^ Presidium of the Cycling Section of the GDR (Ed.): Cycling Week . No. 45/1956 . Berlin, S. 5 .
personal data
SURNAME Pommer, Reinhold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German racing cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH January 6, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Zigartice
DATE OF DEATH March 26, 2014
Place of death Schweinfurt