Wilfried Peffgen

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Wilfried Peffgen, 1979
Wilfried Peffgen, 1979
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Full name Wilfried Peffgen
Date of birth October 1, 1942
date of death 8/9 May 2021
nation Germany Federal RepublicFederal Republic of Germany BR Germany
Last updated: July 29, 2017

Wilfried Peffgen (born October 1, 1942 in Cologne ; † May 8/9 , 2021 there ) was a German racing cyclist .

Life

In his youth, Wilfried Peffgen first tried other sports such as handball and soccer , until he ended up in cycling and became a 16-year-old German junior road champion. In 1962 he finished fourth and in 1964 second place in the German amateur road championship . At the Olympic Games in Tokyo in 1964 , he was sixth in the road race and a year later German road champion . In 1965 he competed in the Tour de l'Avenir for the second time and secured victory on the first stage in Cologne and thus the yellow jersey. At the UCI Road World Championships in 1965 , he recommended himself with seventh place for a career in professional camp , which began in December 1965 at the Cologne six-day race .

The man from Cologne drove 190 six-day races , most of them with his long-term partner Albert Fritz . He had 16 wins, 41 second and 29 third places. However , Peffgen had his greatest successes on the track as a stayer . Three times - in 1976 , 1978 and 1980  - he was world champion in this discipline and four times European champion together with his long-time pacemaker Dieter Durst .

Peffgen competed four times in the Tour de France : 1967 in the German national team (retired after a fracture of the collarbone on the 13th stage), 1969 in the Salvarani team as a helper to Rudi Altig (52nd overall), 1972 in the German Rokado Team (63rd) and also in the Rokado team in 1973 when he again failed to reach Paris. In 1968 he won a stage at the Vuelta a España , and in 1972 he became German road champion. At the road world championship in 1972 he crossed the finish line in 16th place. In total, he won nine road races as a professional in Belgium, Spain, Great Britain, Switzerland and Germany, most recently in Göppingen in 1981. From 1974 he almost only drove standing and six-day races and retired on January 2, 1983 as an active participant at the Cologne Six-Days with a second place.

In 1967, Peffgen and his wife opened a gas station in Cologne-Longerich. He later ran a bicycle shop in Cologne and was also the sports director of six-day races , such as the six-day races in Dortmund until 2009 .

Wilfried Peffgen died on the weekend of August 8th / 9th. May in Cologne.

successes

road

1959
  • MaillotAllemania.svg German junior champion - road race
1964
1965
1966
1968
1972
  • MaillotAllemania.svg German champion - road race
1973

train

1971
  • EuropeEuropeEuropean champion - two-man team driving (with Sigi Renz )
1973
  • EuropeEuropeEuropean champion - two-man team driving (with Sigi Renz )
1976
1977
  • EuropeEurope European champion - standing race
  • MaillotAllemania.svgGerman champion - two-man team driving (with Albert Fritz )
1978
  • World Champion World Champion - Standing Race
  • EuropeEurope European champion - standing race
1979
  • EuropeEurope European champion - standing race
  • MaillotAllemania.svg German champion - standing race
1980
  • World Champion World Champion - Standing Race
  • EuropeEurope European champion - standing race
1981
1982

Victories in six days

1972
Münster (with Albert Fritz ) and Zurich (with Albert Fritz and Graeme Gilmore )
1973
Cologne and Münster (with Albert Fritz)
1976
Cologne (with Dieter Kemper ), Herning, Munich and Zurich (with Albert Fritz)
1977
Bremen (with Albert Fritz)
1978
Cologne, Bremen and Münster (with Albert Fritz)
1979
Groningen (with René Pijnen ) and Münster (with Albert Fritz)
1980
Antwerp (with René Pijnen and Roger De Vlaeminck )
1982
Cologne (with Albert Fritz)

Grand Tour placements

Grand Tour 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973
Yellow jersey Vuelta a España - 22nd - - - - -
Maglia Rosa Giro d'Italia - 50 - - - - -
Yellow jersey Tour de France DNF - 52 - - 63 DNF
Legend: DNF: did not finish , abandoned or withdrawn from the race because the race was timed out.

literature

  • Roger de Maertelaere: Mannen van de Nacht: 100 jaar zesdaagsen. De Eecloonaar, Eeklo 2000, ISBN 90-74128-67-X , p. 233.

Web links

Commons : Wilfried Peffgen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. a b Three-time stayer world champion Peffgen has died. In: rad-net.de. May 10, 2021, accessed May 11, 2021 .
  2. Joel Godaert, Robert Janssens, Guido Cammaert: Tour Encyclopedie 1966-1975 . Uitgeverij Worldstrips, Gent 2000, OCLC 794701947 , p. 148 .
  3. ^ Association of German Cyclists (ed.): Radsport . No. 14/1967 . German sports publisher Kurt Stoof, Cologne 1967, p. 2 .