Werner Bunzel

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Werner Bunzel (born August 19, 1917 in Berlin ; † 2001 in Löhne ) was a German track cyclist and national cycling champion .

Athletic career

Werner Bunzel started for the Schöneberg cycling club Iduna in 1910 . As an amateur , he became German champion four times during the war years , three times in the sprint and once in the tandem race , in 1942 with Harry Saager . After the war he became a professional and was Georg Voggenreiter's constant rival . In 1948 he was again German champion and was on the podium several times until 1951. At the end of the 1940s he dominated the sprint races, in 1948 alone he won 15 races in what was then the eastern zone, where he mainly started and was thus the most successful "aviator".

Bunzel suffered severe head injuries at the six-day race in Hanover in 1950, and ended his career the following year. At the beginning of 1953, Bunzel was reamateurised and joined the Iduna association in Berlin.

After his career, Bunzel was still volunteering in various functions in Berlin cycling. He later moved to Löhne, where he also died.

Trivia

At the championship in 1948 on the Berlin-Schöneberg Radrennbahn, he fell shortly before the finish on the track that was still damp from the rain and was the first to slide over the finish line without his bike. This was followed by a dispute over the championship, as his opponent Voggenreiter initially demanded a repetition. However, the competition jury decided in favor of Bunzel.

Individual evidence

  1. Illustrated Cycling Express . No. 48/1948 . Express-Verlag, Berlin 1948, p. 380 .
  2. Just at the knife on spiegel.de v. February 16, 1950
  3. ^ Presidium of the Cycling Section of the GDR (Ed.): Cycling Week . No. 6/1953 . Sportverlag, Berlin 1953, p. 6 .
  4. Interest group for cycling (ed.): The cycling . No. 61/1948 . Cologne 1948, p. 1 .

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