Rolf Nitzsche (cyclist)

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Rolf Nitzsche (1956)
Rolf Nitzsche (1956)
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Date of birth September 18, 1930
date of death August 2015
nation Germany Democratic Republic 1949GDR German Democratic Republic
discipline Track cycling
Driver type sprinter
Last updated: August 28, 2015

Rolf Nitzsche (born September 18, 1930 in Zittau ; † August 2015 in Berlin ) was a German track cyclist .

Athletic career

Rolf Nitzsche was one of the most versatile track cyclists in the GDR in the 1950s. He started cycling in 1949. His first club was BSG Motor Zittau , in 1953 he moved to BSG Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt, in 1954 to Dynamo Karl-Marx-Stadt and finally in 1956 to SC Dynamo Berlin .

From 1951 to 1959 he won a total of twelve GDR championship titles in the sprint , in the 1000-meter time trial , in the two-man team , on the tandem and with the four-wheeler , with which he was six times champion. His trainers and those of his tandem partner Joachim Popke were the Olympic champions Ernst Ihbe and Carl Lorenz .

In 1956 Nitzsche started in the all-German four-wheel at the Olympic Games in Melbourne . The quartet of Nitzsche, Manfred Gieseler , Siegfried Köhler and Werner Malitz were eliminated in the preliminary fights. At the Olympic elimination in Milan in 1959 he helped the GDR team to achieve victory, but at the games in Rome in 1960 he was only a substitute.

Trainer

After the end of his active sporting career, Nitzsche became a junior coach at SC Dynamo Berlin , after he had originally trained as a forensic technician. He is considered to be the discoverer of the later Olympic champion Guido Fulst , who first became world champion in Lyon in 1989 at the age of 19 . Rolf Nitzsche worked as a trainer in Indonesia for several months in 1962 . It was his job to build permanent structures for training and competitions there, as well as to prepare Indonesian cyclists for the Asian Games . He started with his training group in several races in the GDR, followed by other short coaching activities abroad.

Web links

Commons : Rolf Nitzsche  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Presidium of the Cycling Section of the GDR (ed.): Cycling Week . No. 40/1958 . Berlin 1958, p. 4 .
  2. ↑ a b c Rolf Nitzsche passed away. In: rad-net.de. March 25, 2013, accessed August 27, 2015 .
  3. ^ Presidium of the Cycling Section of the GDR (Ed.): Cycling Week . No. 8/1962 . Berlin 1962, p. 10 .
personal data
SURNAME Nitzsche, Rolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German track cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH September 18, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Zittau
DATE OF DEATH August 2015
Place of death Berlin