Verner Blaudzun

Verner Blaudzun (born March 23, 1946 in Sønderborg ) is a former Danish cyclist .

In the 1960s and 1970s Verner Blaudzun was one of the best amateur - cyclists on the road. At the UCI Road World Championships in 1966 he was world champion in the team time trial , together with Jørgen Emil Hansen , Fleming Wisborg and Ole Højlund . At the world championships the following year, the Danish team with Blaudzun, Hansen, Leif Mortensen and Henning Petersen was runner-up behind the Swedish Fåglum brothers . In 1973 he won the Olympic prize in the team time trial in Cottbus with the Danish national team .

Blaudzun started three times with the Danish national team in the team time trial at the Olympic Games , at the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal he won the bronze medal together with Gert Frank , Hansen and Jørn Lund .

Blaudzun was Danish champion seven times, in road races and in the amateurs team time trial. In 1970 he won the Tour de Berlin .

Verner Blaudzun is the father of the five-time Danish champion in individual time trials and road races, Michael Blaudzun .

Web links

• Verner Blaudzun in the Radsportseiten.net database
• Verner Blaudzun in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ^ German Cycling Association of the GDR (ed.): The cyclist . No. 27/1973 . Berlin, S. 1 .
2. ↑ Verner Blaudzun 50 år efter VM-guld: De gyldne less står i kø. Retrieved December 20, 2019 (Danish).