Werner Otto (cyclist)

Werner Otto

Werner Otto (2017)
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Date of birth	April 15, 1948
nation	German Democratic Republic
discipline	Track cycling
Last updated: October 30, 2017

Werner Otto (born April 15, 1948 in Dresden ) is a former German racing cyclist , two-time world champion and cycling trainer.

Athletic career

Otto began cycling with SG Dynamo Dresden-Nord in 1962 and switched to SC Dynamo Berlin in 1966 , where he trained with Rolf Nitzsche and later Werner Malitz . Four times he won GDR championship titles in various disciplines (sprint, tandem, 500 meter time trial ) in the youth division, and he won two titles in the races of the children's and youth spartakiads . Werner Otto was a racing driver specializing in sprints and tandem races between 1962 and 1974 . In 1969 and 1971 he became world champion on the tandem with Jürgen Geschke . The two drivers were also GDR champions in this discipline four times.

At the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich , Otto and Geschke won the silver medal in the tandem race. In 1974 Otto resigned from competitive cycling, but still achieved podium places in senior championships in the 2000s. In 1973 he surprisingly won the International Sprinter Championship in Berlin against all favorites on the Werner-Seelenbinder-Halle track .

Professional

Werner Otto originally completed an apprenticeship as an electric vehicle fitter.

From 1974 to 1991 Werner Otto worked successfully as a trainer, u. a. at SC Dynamo Berlin . Then he opened a bicycle shop in Berlin . He is also the initiator, namesake and chairman of the RSV Werner Otto association ; for drivers like Karl Christian König , Dana Glöß , Robert Bartko , Guido Fulst and Sören Lausberg start or started. The club's coach is Emanuel Raasch , also a former protégé of Otto. After his active time as an athlete, Werner Otto worked as a successful trainer from 1974 to 1991. Among other things, he trained Emanuel Raasch for 10 years. In total, his athletes won 18 medals at world championships, the Olympic Games and German championships.

successes

Werner Otto (front) at a solidarity race in the Werner-Seelenbinder-Halle in 1989

1968

• GDR champions - tandem race (with Jürgen Geschke )

1969

• World champions (amateurs) - tandem race (with Jürgen Geschke )
• GDR champions - tandem race (with Jürgen Geschke )

1970

• World Championship (amateurs) tandem race (with Jürgen Geschke )
• GDR champions - tandem race (with Jürgen Geschke )

1971

• World champions (amateurs) - tandem race (with Jürgen Geschke )
• GDR champions - tandem race (with Jürgen Geschke )

1972

• Olympic Games - Tandem Race (with Jürgen Geschke )

1973

• World Championship (amateurs) tandem race (with Jürgen Geschke )

Awards (selection)

• 1970 and 1971: Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze
• 1972: Patriotic Order of Merit in silver

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} German Cycling Association of the GDR (Ed.): The cyclist . No. 35/1972 . Berlin 1972, p. 1 .
2. ^ German Cycling Association of the GDR (ed.): The cyclist . No. 30/1979 . Berlin 1979, p. 2 .

Web links

Commons : Werner Otto  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Werner Otto in the Radsportseiten.net database
• Werner Otto in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Werner Otto on the website of RSV Werner Otto