Siegfried Wustrow
Siegfried Wustrow (born May 7, 1936 in Göhlen ) is a former cyclist from the GDR .
Athletic career
Siegfried Wustrow began his career in the early 1950s as a racing cyclist with BSG Stahl Fürstenberg (today Eisenhüttenstadt ). He was an all-rounder who drove standing races, but was also successful in road races (second in the GDR tour in 1963) and cross-country races ( participant in the 1958 World Cup and best GDR driver with 22nd place). In 1955 he won Rund um die Hainleite .
In 1960 Wustrow was vice world champion of the amateur stayers in Karl-Marx-Stadt . The following year he was able to repeat this success at the World Track Championships in Zurich , and in the same year he became the GDR champion in this discipline. In 1960 he won the international standing championship in the Werner-Seelenbinder-Halle in Berlin.
Today Siegfried Wustrow runs a taxi company in Leipzig and continues to be involved in cycling as an organizer and participant in popular sports events.
literature
- Otto Friedrich, Stadt Forst (Hrsg.): 100 years of Forst Radrennbahn and Forster Radsport. Stadt Forst, Forst 2006, ISBN 3-00-018303-5 , p. 124f.
Web links
- Siegfried Wustrow in the Radsportseiten.net database
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wustrow, Siegfried |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German racing cyclist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 7, 1936 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Göhlen |