Thomas Huschke

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Thomas Huschke (1975)
Huschke at the 1975 World Railroad Championships in Liège

Thomas Huschke (born December 29, 1947 in Berlin ) is a former German cyclist and world champion in cycling .

Athletic career

Huschke began cycling in 1962 at SC Einheit Berlin . He trained u. a. with Hans Wagner, who himself was a successful train driver.

Huschke, a member of the Berlin TSC , was an amateur mainly on the track. He was 16 times GDR champion in the disciplines of single pursuit , team pursuit , Madison and in the standing race . But he also successfully took part in road races. In 1973 he won a stage of the peace drive .

In 1969, Huschke drove three international matches against the Netherlands , Italy and the USSR in the 4000 m team pursuit for the GDR national railway team. Together with Heinz Richter , Bernhard Gruner and Bernd Schreiber, he won all three races. Against Italy, the GDR four-man set a new German record for the GDR with a time of 4: 29.4 minutes as well as the world's best for cement railways. At the end of the respective comparisons, the GDR won 8: 7 against the Netherlands, 8.5: 6.5 against Italy and lost 8.5: 9.5 against the USSR.

In August 1969, Huschke started at the World Track Championships in Brno in the 4000 m team pursuit competition. In the same line-up as in the previous international matches (Huschke, H. Richter, Gruner, Schreiber), the GDR team reached fifth place in the qualification in 4: 37.13 minutes. In the quarter-finals, the four then met the USSR. Despite an increase to 4: 32.73 minutes, the GDR team lost 81 hundredths of a second against the USSR and thus missed the semi-finals.

In 1975 Huschke became world champion in the single pursuit. At the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, he won silver with the GDR foursome in the team pursuit. Four years later in Montreal in 1976 he won the bronze medal in the single pursuit. In 1977 Thomas Huschke became GDR master of the standing and in 1979 vice-master. He achieved two of his most spectacular victories in 1972 (with Heinz Richter) and 1975 (with Scholz) at the 1001 lap mammoth race on the Berlin winter railway.

Familiar

Thomas Huschke comes from a well-known cycling family. His grandfather Adolf as well as his great-uncle Richard and his father, Gerhard Huschke , were successful racing cyclists. The founder of this family tradition, often referred to as the Huschke dynasty, was the Berlin master plumber Otto Huschke, who competed and won his first bike race in Gransee as early as 1890. His father Gerhard died when Thomas Huschke competed in the world championship in Montreal and defeated Dietrich Thurau in the battle for the bronze medal .

Professional

After completing his racing career, Huschke began studying economics in Berlin and did his doctorate. For a short time he worked as a marketing expert for the German Gymnastics and Sport Federation of the GDR. In 1988 Huschke became the manager of the figure skater Katarina Witt . From 2004 to 2006 he was President of the Frankfurter Radsport-Club 90 ( Frankfurt / Oder ). From 2012 he was President of the Berlin Cycling Association for two years. Currently (as of 2020) he is president of the Berlin association NRVg. Luisenstadt .

Awards (selection)

Works

  • Trends and regularities of the price development of capitalist world market prices for non-ferrous metals and theoretical and methodological questions regarding the application of these prices in RGW price formation , Berlin, University of Economics, Diss. 1984

Individual evidence

  1. ^ German Cycling Association of the GDR (ed.): The cyclist . No. 35/1975 . Berlin 1975, p. 1 .
  2. ↑ a b Der Radsportler, issue of July 25, 1969, page 8, Azzurri lost one hope , publisher: Deutscher Radsport-Verband der DDR, Berlin, 1969
  3. ↑ Der Radsportler, edition of June 11, 1969, page 3, hard-won 8: 7 against the Netherlands , publisher: German Cycling Association of the GDR, Berlin, 1969
  4. ↑ Der Radsportler, issue of August 1, 1969, page 8 f., Knappe defeat against USSR , publisher: German Cycling Association of the GDR, Berlin, 1969
  5. ↑ Der Radsportler, issue of August 29, 1969, page 4 f., The triumphal march of our tandem , publisher: German Cycling Association of the GDR, Berlin, 1969
  6. ^ German Cycling Association of the GDR (ed.): The cyclist . 3/1972 or 3/1975. Berlin.
  7. ^ German Cycling Association of the GDR (ed.): The cyclist . No. 34/1974 . Berlin 1974, p. 1 .
  8. ↑ Volker Kluge : Olympic Summer Games. The Chronicle III. Mexico City 1968 - Los Angeles 1984. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-328-00741-5 , p. 410.
  9. ↑ Alexander Osang: The files from the Ice Age. Part 6. In: Spiegel online . April 29, 2002. Retrieved April 12, 2018 .
  10. ↑ Dan Radtke is supposed to steer the FRC 90 back on track. In: Lausitzer Rundschau online. February 13, 2002, accessed April 12, 2018 .
  11. ^ The association: The association. In: nrvg.de. August 4, 1910, accessed February 12, 2020 .
  12. ↑ About the honor for the Olympic team of the GDR. Awarded high government awards. Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze. In: New Germany . September 10, 1976, p. 4 , accessed on April 10, 2018 (online at ZEFYS - newspaper portal of the Berlin State Library , free registration required).

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personal data
SURNAME Huschke, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German racing cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH December 29, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin