Willi Fuggerer

Willi Fuggerer (born September 11, 1941 in Nuremberg ; † September 2015 ) was a German racing cyclist . In 1964 he and Klaus Kobusch won an Olympic bronze medal in a tandem race .

Willi Fuggerer started for RC Herpersdorf . As a 14-year-old, he attracted attention because of his extreme speed; even against older and physically stronger opponents he prevailed. For four years he won all the Bavarian championship titles that existed for young people and later for juniors on the short distances.

In the course of his entire career, Fuggerer won a total of nine German championship titles among amateurs in the disciplines of tandem races, time trials and sprints . In 1964 the "fast Willi" Fuggerer won the German championship title in tandem driving with Klaus Kobusch. At the Olympic Games in Tokyo in 1964, the two represented Germany as part of the all-German team . In the Olympic semifinals they were defeated by the eventual Olympic champions Angelo Damiano and Sergio Bianchetto from Italy: After the first two races it was "a draw". in the third race the Germans were disqualified for leaving the sprint corridor during the final sprint. The two Germans won the two races for third place against the Dutch tandem and won the bronze medal. Fuggerer later: "The bronze medal in Tokyo was indeed my greatest international success for me, but after gold was so within reach for us, it was also the greatest disappointment." He also started in the Olympic sprint competition; here he reached the quarter-finals, where he was eliminated against the later fourth, the French Pierre Trentin .

On December 11, 1964, he was awarded the Silver Laurel Leaf for his sporting achievements.

After the end of his own career as an active cyclist, Willi Fuggerer stayed connected to his home club RC Herpersdorf and passed on his experience to the youngsters as a trainer, supervisor and consultant. In September 2015 he died after a long and serious illness at the age of 73.

Professional

Fuggerer worked for the Zweirad Union company in Nuremberg for many years .

literature

• Bodo Harenberg (ed.): The stars of the sport from A-Z . Darmstadt 1970

Web links

• Willi Fuggerer in the Radsportseiten.net database
• Willi Fuggerer in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Looking back on almost 90 years of RC Herpersdorf

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Willi Fuggerer died at the age of 73 - cycling at rad-net.de. In: rad-net.de. September 8, 2015, accessed September 8, 2015 . 
2. ↑ The "fast Willi" and his Olympic trauma. In: nordbayern.de. Retrieved September 8, 2015 . 
3. ↑ Sports report of the federal government of September 26, 1973 to the Bundestag - printed matter 7/1040 - page 70
4. ^ Association of German cyclists (ed.): Radsport . No. 15/1966 . Deutscher Sportverlag Kurt Stoof, Cologne 1966, p. 14 .