Walter Becker (cyclist)
Walter Becker (1956) | |
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Date of birth | October 18, 1932 |
date of death | June 7, 2012 |
nation | Germany |
discipline | Road cycling |
End of career | 1958 |
Last updated: November 10, 2018 |
Walter Becker (born October 18, 1932 in Kaiserslautern ; † June 7, 2012 in Queidersbach ) was a German racing cyclist .
Athletic career
In 1952 Walter Becker became the German amateur road racing champion. This qualified him for the start at the Olympic Games in Helsinki . In the street race in great heat, he was initially at the top of the race with the later first and second place finishers. When a spectator tried to hand him a bottle of water, he accidentally struck Becker in the stomach so that he fell and finally had to give up the race.
In 1953 Becker was German runner-up in the road race and in 1955 in the cross-country race , also in 1955 he was third in the Amateurs around Cologne . In 1954 he won Rund in Berlin and in 1956 the Tour of the Four Cantons in Switzerland.
successes
- 1952
- 1954
- Around Dortmund
- 1955
- German amateur champion - team time trial (with Günther Ziegler and Edi Ziegler )
- 1956
Web links
- Walter Becker in the Radsportseiten.net database
- Walter Becker in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
Individual evidence
- ↑ The great festival is no longer granted to him . Article obituary in the Rheinpfalz of June 11, 2012, p. 15.
- ↑ Manfred Marr: Living legend . In: Münchner Merkur , February 28, 2015
- ↑ Detlef Watzke: The German team at the games of the XV. 1952 Olympics in Helsinki . DA German Sport University Cologne 2004. p. 189
- ↑ Around Berlin 1896 - 2000. Cycling4fans, accessed on November 21, 2016 .
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SURNAME | Becker, Walter |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German racing cyclist |
DATE OF BIRTH | October 18, 1932 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Kaiserslautern |
DATE OF DEATH | June 7, 2012 |
Place of death | Queidersbach |