Ruberg (cycling team)

Ruberg
Team data
nationality	Germany
First season	1952
Last season	1971
discipline	Street
Wheel manufacturer	Ruberg (1952–1957 + 1961) Groene Leeuw (1962) Viking Cycles (1964–1966) Raleigh (1967)
staff
Team manager	Wolfgang Gronen
Name story
Years	Surname
1952–1957 1961 1962 1963 1964–1965 1966–1967 1971	Ruberg Ruberg League Ruberg Campagnolo Ruberg League Ruberg-Caltex Ruberg-Continental Ruberg

Team Ruberg was a German cycling team that existed from 1952 to 1971. From 1958 to 1960 and from 1968 to 1970 the team was inactive.

history

The main sponsor of the team was Ruberg & Renner (owner was Werner Ruberg ) a manufacturer of drive chains based in Hagen , North Rhine-Westphalia . Due to the economic difficulties caused by a recession, sponsorship of the cycling team was discontinued in 1967. In 1971 a team was sponsored again for a year.
The company was bought by the American company Rexnord in the 1970s .

The first team in 1952 consisted of eight German racing cyclists. The first team leader was Wolfgang Gronen , who held this position from 1952 to 1954 and from 1961 to 1967. In 1956 the team only consisted of two drivers.

Many of the drivers who started for the team sometimes had contracts with two teams at the same time. The reason was that the Union Cycliste International (UCI) had a regulation according to which professional drivers from Germany and Switzerland had the right to start in two different teams. This regulation was repealed in 1973. Many of the team's racing drivers drove on the road and track at the same time, such as Hennes Junkermann in 1964 and 1965.

In 1965 and 1966 Ruberg had a driver from Eastern Europe in his team, Paul Orban from Hungary . Orban had received special permission from his association to start as a professional (he later drove again as an amateur , mainly standing races ).

successes

Street

1952 World Championships - Road Racing German champion - road race one stage tour of Germany in 1952 1953 one stage Tour du Sud-Est German three-day race 3rd place GP de Suisse (EZF) 1954 German championship - road race 1955 Overall ranking and two stages of the Tour of Germany in 1955 1957 German championship - road race 1963 a stage of the Critérium du Dauphiné one stage tour of Luxembourg Luxembourg champions - road races 15th place overall Tour de France 1964 Around Cologne 1965 Around Cologne Ronde van Limburg a stage Tour de l'Avenir 1966 one stage tour of Andalusia a stage Gran Premio Fedrácion Catalana de Ciclismo Grand Prize of the Canton of Aargau Northwestern Switzerland tour Grand Prix of the Dortmund Union Brewery train 1952 Six day race in Munich German champion - Madison 1953 German champion - one's pursuit German champion - Madison 1954 1955 German champion - one's pursuit 1961 German champion - stayer World champion - stayer Dutch Championship - Individual Pursuit 1962 German champion - sprint 1963 German champion - sprint 1964 German champion - sprint German champion - Madison German champion - stayer Six-day race in Frankfurt Six days Quebec 1965 European Championship - Madison German champion - sprint German champion - Madison Six-day race in Frankfurt 1966 Six days Berlin (a) Six days Québec German champion - stayer Six day race in Berlin 1967 European Championship - Stayers Six day race in Berlin Six days Dortmund Six days Melbourne German champion - sprint German champion - stayer

Known former drivers

• Hennes Junkermann (1964–1965 + 1971)
• Ludwig Hörmann (1952–1954)
• Günther Pankoke (1952–1956)
• Friedhelm Fischerkeller (1961)
• Karl-Heinz Marsell (1961 + 1964–1966)
• Dieter Puschel (1962–1964 + 1966)
• Horst Oldenburg (1964–1966)

Web links

• Ruberg 1952 , 1953 , 1954 , 1955 1956 1957 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 in the database of radsportseiten.net

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Information on Raleigh Ruberg at on-the-drops.blogspot.com
2. ↑ List of team history Ruberg at www.cyclingranking.com
3. ^ Takeover of Ruberg & Renner on www.wp.de.
4. ^ Ruberg 1956 on www.radsportseiten.net
5. ^ Association of German cyclists (ed.): Radsport . No. 17/1973 . Deutscher Sportverlag Kurt Stoof, Cologne 1973, p. 16 .
6. ↑ For information on Hans Junkermann see 1964 + 1965 at www.memoire-du-cyclisme.eu (en)
7. ^ Association of German cyclists (ed.): Radsport . No. 12/1966 . Deutscher Sportverlag Kurt Stoof, Cologne 1966, p. 13 .