Uwe Zeidler

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Uwe Zeidler (born March 25, 1967 in Upahl ) is a former German cyclist and national cycling champion .

Athletic career

Zeidler was already very successful as a youth driver. At the youth competitions of friendship in 1985 in Bulgaria , he won the title in the team time trial and was third in the road race. He was able to win another title in the team time trial in the Youth A age group. Zeidler's first major success was winning the Tour of Tunisia in the spring of 1986 . This was also his first appointment to the national team. In the same year he won the GDR title at the junior championships on the road and won the championship title in the team time trial with his club SC Turbine Erfurt in the men's class. In the ensuing championship in the individual time trial, he finished 4th. He competed in the GDR tour for the first time and was classified in 35th place. In 1987 he won the performance test of the GDR elite in the time trial in Forst. He finished fourth in the Morocco Tour and took part in the Rhineland-Palatinate Tour . In 1988 he finished 5th in the Tour of Algeria and 23rd in the Tour of Austria. A year later he was fifth in the Tour of the GDR. In 1990 he competed for TSV Erfurt , 1991 for Olympia Dortmund, 1992 for the professional team Die Continentale , a. a. at the side of Erik Zabel .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ German Cycling Association of the GDR (ed.): The cyclist . No. 52/1986 . Berlin 1986, p. 10 .