Tarek Abu Al Dahab

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Tarek Abu Al Dahab , also Tarek Aboul-Zahab (born December 25, 1939 in Beirut ) is a former Lebanese cyclist .

Athletic career

Tarek Abu Al Dahab began his sporting career at the age of 18 in Paris , where he was preparing for the 1958 World Road Championships in Reims . The former French racing driver, multiple French cross-country champion and trainer Robert Oubron was considered to be his discoverer and sponsor . He belonged to the VCXII in Paris, became a postal worker and was a member of the starting field of the road world championships (34th place in 1962 ) and also of the Olympic Games in Rome in 1960 and Tokyo in 1964.

In 1961 Abu Al Dahab won the Grand Prix Clermont-Ferrand and in 1962 the Paris-Rouen time trial. He finished the four-cantons tour in Switzerland in eleventh place. In the 1962 Berlin-Prague-Warsaw International Peace Tour he came in 41st place overall. This was followed by a 64th place in the Tour de l'Avenir .

In 1963 he won the Grand Prix d ' Évreux and was 31st in the overall classification of the peace ride . In 1964 at the Course de la Paix with the eighth place he had his best stage placement (1st stage around Warsaw) and after three stages he was in seventh position in the overall ranking, at the end of 33rd place. His best final placement was a 24th place in the year In 1965 , when, like in 1964, he was part of an “international team”.

At the end of 1965 he returned to his homeland, where he had few opportunities to compete in road bike races . So he shifted his activities to the track and was four-time Lebanese champion in 1968: in the road race and in three track disciplines, the sprint , in the single pursuit and in the 1000-meter time trial . He qualified for the Olympic Games in Mexico City and started there in these four disciplines. He gave up in the road race, in the single pursuit he was second to last, in the sprint and in the time trial last. In 1972 he qualified in the single pursuit and in the road race again for the Olympic Games in Munich , but again ended up in the back places.

Professional and later life

In May 2012, Tarek Abu Al Dahab, who runs a bicycle shop in Beirut, was on the occasion of the celebration of the 60th anniversary of the Peace Journey on German soil in Kleinmühlingen at the Peace Journey Museum there and had a reunion with Täve Schur and other former "peace riders" . On his 75th birthday, members of the Friedensfahrt Museum traveled to Beirut to congratulate him.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ German Cycling Association of the GDR (ed.): The cyclist . No. 49/1969 . Berlin, S. 8 .
  2. ↑ Lebanese cyclist wants a peace ride between Beirut and Tel Aviv on volksstimme.de v. May 8, 2012
  3. ↑ "Crazy Horst" meets his idol in Beirut. Volksstimme.de, December 19, 2014, accessed January 12, 2015 .

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Dahab, Tarek Abu Al
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Aboul-Zahab, Tarek
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Lebanese cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH December 25, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Beirut