Volker Diehl (cyclist)

Volker Diehl (born October 24, 1963 in Ludwigshafen am Rhein ) is a former German cyclist .

As an amateur, Volker Diehl became German champions in the team pursuit in 1985 and 1986 together with the team from the Berlin RC Opel student in 1921 .

Then Diehl joined the professionals . In 1987 he became the European winter track champion in two-man team driving , together with Roland Günther . By 1991 he started a total of 47 six-day races, of which he won three, all in 1990: in Bassano del Grappa with Silvio Martinello , in Stuttgart with Etienne De Wilde and that in Berlin with Bruno Holenweger .

In 1991 Diehl received the offer to take over the bicycle business from Willi Altig , and he ended his cycling career. Today (2013) he works for a purchasing association for bicycle dealers and as a lecturer at the Federal College for Two-Wheel Mechanics in Frankfurt am Main .

References and comments

1. ↑ European championships before the founding of the " European Cycling Union " (UEC) in 1995 are considered unofficial, since up to this point they were usually invitation races in which non-European riders could also take part.
2. ↑ Volker Diehl on radsportakademie.de ( Memento of the original from March 14, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  

literature

• Roger de Maertelaere: Mannen van de Nacht , Eeklo 2000, p. 205

Web links

• Volker Diehl in the Radsportseiten.net database