Theo Intra

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Theo Intra (born January 20, 1930 in Frankfurt am Main ; † March 16, 1981 ibid) was a German track cyclist .

Theo Intra came from a cycling family; his father and grandfather were already racing. His father founded the RV Sossenheim again. He was a schoolmate of Erwin Moos, who from 1962 organized the race around the Henninger tower . The race was the result of an initiative by Intra and two of his club mates who wanted to organize stayer races in Frankfurt's Waldstadion . They brought the Moos brothers on board, who eventually founded an event company that also organized the road race. Before Intra won his first championship, he and his standard partner Horst Holzmann won 30 two-man team races in the 1949 season, so that both of them dominated this discipline.

In 1950 Intra became two-time German champions: in the single pursuit of amateurs and in two-man team driving , together with Horst Holzmann . He then moved on to the pros and mainly competed in six-day races until 1959 . He started with a total of 30, could not win any, but achieved second places several times, for example three times in the domestic six-day race in Frankfurt.

In 1951 Intra finished third together with Karl Weimer in the German championship in two-man team driving, and in 1955 he became German runner-up in the single pursuit of professionals.

After finishing his cycling career, Intra opened a bike shop in his hometown of Sossenheim , which still exists and is run today (2016) by his son Markus Intra, also a former cyclist, and by former professional cycling professional Kai Hundertmarck . The Intra family had taken care of him after Hundertmarck's parents were fatally involved in a traffic accident. The grandson Felix Intra is also a cyclist.

Individual evidence

  1. Interview with Hermann Moos on faz.net v. April 29, 2004
  2. Archive link ( Memento from May 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  3. FRANKFURT-SOSSENHEIM Cycling is tradition
  4. About us - Eschborn Frankfurt. In: Eschborn – Frankfurt. April 30, 2016, archived from the original on June 17, 2016 ; accessed on June 21, 2016 .
  5. Interest group for cycling (ed.): The cycling . No. 7/1950 . Sportdienst Verlag Zademack and Noster, Cologne 1950, p. 8 .
  6. fahrrad-intra.de
  7. Portrait of Markus Intra on landessportbund-hessen.de ( Memento from May 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive )

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