Volker Winkler (cyclist)

Volker Winkler (left) and Andreas Neuer, 1977

Volker Winkler (2016)

Volker Winkler (born July 20, 1957 in Merseburg ) is a former German racing cyclist in track cycling and today's cycling trainer.

Athletic career

Volker Winkler began his cycling career in Lübben in 1969 rather by chance. A fourth driver for a team competition was wanted for a youth race at his school and Winkler stepped in. He stayed with cycling and joined the BSG Lok Lübben. In 1970 he moved to SC Cottbus , where he trained under Lutz Fischer, Gerd Mueller and Ullrich Schorten. At the junior world championships on the street, he won the bronze medal with the GDR team in 1975 . Winkler was also very successful in the youth field on the street. In 1975, for example, he won two stage races in his age group, including the International Youth Cup, a three-stage race with starters from nine countries. He won his first GDR championship title in 1975 in the single pursuit of the Youth A class and in the two-man team driving (with Heiko Salzwedel ).

Winkler was world champion in the team pursuit four times, in 1977, 1978, 1979 and 1981. At the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, he took second place in the team pursuit, together with Matthias Wiegand , Uwe Unterwalder and Gerald Mortag, behind the USSR team. On the Werner-Seelenbinder-Halle track in Berlin, he won the "International Two-Team Championship" in 1978 with Dieter Stein as a partner. The duo was able to repeat this success in the following two years.

Professional

In 1985 Volker Winkler, a trained diesel locomotive fitter, ended his active career and became a trainer at SC Cottbus . From 1996 to 2000 Volker Winkler worked as a sprint trainer at RSC Cottbus . He then became a state trainer for schoolchildren and youth at the Berlin Cycling Association.

Awards (selection)

• 1980 - Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze
• 1984 - Patriotic Order of Merit in Gold

Individual evidence

1. ^ German Cycling Association of the GDR (ed.): The cyclist . No. 24/1975 . Berlin 1975, p. 3 .
2. ↑ Volker Winkler in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
3. ^ German Cycling Association of the GDR (ed.): The cyclist . No. 18/1975 . Berlin 1975, p. 1 .
4. ^ German Cycling Association of the GDR (ed.): The cyclist . No. 21/1975 . Berlin 1975, p. 1 .
5. ^ German Cycling Association of the GDR (ed.): The cyclist . No. 19/1975 . Berlin 1975, p. 2 .
6. ↑ Volker Winkler in the Radsportseiten.net database
7. ↑ Volker Kluge : The great lexicon of GDR athletes. The 1000 most successful and popular athletes from the GDR, their successes and biographies. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89602-348-9 , p. 426.
8. ↑ LR-online.de (January 16, 2010)
9. ↑ BDR-Radsport.de ( Memento of the original from July 9, 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.  

Web links

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