Around Sebnitz

Around Sebnitz is a road bike race around the large district town of Sebnitz . The one-day race is held every September.

history

In the GDR , those interested in sports came together to form company sports communities - the "units". Different sports were divided into sections, as was the case in Sebnitz . In October 1953, the cycling section was founded in the Sebnitz BSG unit . In cooperation with the board of the " Einheit Berlin " sports club and the "German Cycling Association" of the DTSB (Deutscher Turn und Sport Bund), regular races should in future represent a major sporting event for the people of Sebnitz and the district town.

On October 7, 1954, the "Around Sebnitz" was held for the first time; Ten laps were driven over a length of 6.5 kilometers. The number of laps changed over the years (in 2010 it was 17). In every lap the drivers have to conquer the short but steep Finkenberg. After the race was canceled in 2013, the 40th edition took place in 2014.

Because of the temporal proximity to the international classic bike around Berlin , there were many top foreign amateurs at the start during the GDR era. For example, the legendary Eddy Merckx won in Sebnitz in 1963 . Since 1995 professionals are also allowed to start; Jens Voigt , Christian Knees and Roger Kluge, for example, have won since then . In 2015 the competition was in category 1.2 of the UCI Europe Tour calendar . In 2018, "Around Sebnitz" was given Bundesliga status in cycling, which means that the cycling race is back to its early past as a top amateur race.

winner

1954 Helmut Stolper 1955 Horst Tüller 1956 Peter Härtel 1957 Otto Altweck 1958 René Vanderveken (Belgium) 1959 Klaus Ampler 1960 Aad Biemans (Netherlands) 1961 Gustav Adolf Schur 1962 Eberhard Butzke 1963 Eddy Merckx (Belgium) 1964 Kurt Müller 1965 Gianfranco Gallon (Italy) 1966 Dieter Mickein

1967 Rainer Marks 1968 not held 1969 Axel Peschel 1970 Dieter Gonschorek 1971 Louis Verreydt (Belgium) 1972 Luděk Kubias (CSSR) 1973 Luděk Kubias (CSSR) 1974 Lothar Grüner 1975–1989 not held 1990 Ángel Camargo (Colombia) 1991–1994 not held 1994 Ralf Keller 1995 Jürgen Werner (professional)

1996 Martin Müller 1997 Uwe Ampler (professional) 1998 Michael Giebelmann 1999 Timo Scholz 2000 Torsten Hiekmann 2001 Tilo student 2002 not held 2003 Paul Martens 2004 Udo Müller 2005 Karsten Volkmann 2006 Erik Mohs 2007 Erik Mohs 2008 Martin Prázdnovský (Czech Republic)

2009 René Obst 2010 Jens Voigt (professional) 2011 Christian Knees (professional) 2012 Stefan Schäfer 2013 not held 2014 Andi Bajc (Slovenia) 2015 Maximilian Kuen (Austria) 2016 not held 2017 Roger Kluge (professional) 2018 Marcel Franz 2019 Adam Toupalik (Czech Republic)

Web links

• Official website
• All about Sebnitz in the database of Radsportseiten.net

Individual evidence

1. ↑ All about Sebnitz, first professional race in Saxony since 2012. rad-net.de, September 16, 2015, accessed on September 16, 2015 . 
2. ↑ Dirk Schulze - Sächsische Zeitung - 7th September 2018 - Sebnitz edition - From the region - page 12
3. ↑ All about Sebnitz.de