Thomas Barth (cyclist)

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Uwe Raab and Thomas Barth on April 21, 1984 in Berlin: 27th Erich Schulz memorial race Berlin-Angermünde-Berlin over 165 km - talking shortly before the start in front of the Werner-Seelenbinder-Halle

Thomas Barth (born February 12, 1960 in Zeulenroda , Gera district , GDR ) is a former German racing cyclist . For the GDR , he was Junior World Champion with the road team in 1977 and 1978 and reached fourth place in the road individual race at the 1980 Olympic Games .

In 1974 Thomas Barth drove for Motor Zeulenroda and that same year switched to trainer Werner Marschner at SG Wismut Gera . He won a title in the races of the children's and youth spartakiad in 1977. In 1977 and 1978 he was junior world champion in road team time trial . In 1979 he finished eleventh in the road single at the UCI Road World Championships . In the same year Barth was third in the Tour of Bulgaria and won a stage. He finished second in the Setubal Tour of Portugal and also won a stage here. In addition, Barth took tenth place in the Tour du Vaucluse and the Tour of Cuba . In 1980, he won a stage of the Tour of Thuringia and took third place in the overall ranking.

Thomas Barth took part ten times, from 1980 to 1989, in the International Peace Tour, the most important amateur stage race at the time. He achieved his best overall placement there in 1982 with fourth place. In 1984 he won the 7th stage. In 1983 he finished fourth in the individual cycling at the World Cycling Championships in Altenrhein . In 1982, together with Falk Boden , Jörg Köhler , Lutz Lötzsch , Olaf Ludwig and Andreas Petermann, he won the team championship of the Peace Tour. The team was voted GDR Sportsman of the Year for this. His team-friendly driving style was characteristic. In 1982 and 1986, respectively, he helped Bernd Drogan and Uwe Ampler to win the world championship title in the individual street races for amateurs. In 1988 he won one of the most traditional cycling races in the GDR with Rund um den Braunohle. In 1983 he started at the UCI Road World Championships and was classified fourth in the amateur road race.

After the reunification he became a professional cyclist with the Danish-Dutch team TVM, including the Tour de France in 1992 . After the end of his career, he was committed to maintaining the peace tour, but could not prevent the tour from being canceled for economic reasons.

His son Marcel Barth (* 1986) was also a cyclist.

Overall victories in major cycling races

  • 1982: Mediterranean Tour ( Turkey )

Individual evidence

  1. ^ German Cycling Association of the GDR (ed.): The cyclist . No. 30/1979 . Berlin 1979, p. 3 .
  2. ↑ Der Radsportler, May 2, 1980 edition, "GDR with three world champions in the Peace Ride Selection", p. 1, publisher: Deutscher Radsportverband der DDR, Berlin, 1980
  3. ^ German Cycling Association of the GDR (ed.): The cyclist . No. 15/1988 . Berlin 1988, p. 1 .
  4. ↑ Rene Jacobs et al. (Ed.): Velo . Dendermonde 1984, p. 131 .

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SURNAME Barth, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German racing cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH February 12, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Zeulenroda , Gera district , GDR