Willy Trost
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Full name | Wilhelm Ludwig Trost |
Date of birth | October 6, 1924 |
date of death | March 14, 1977 |
nation | BR Germany |
discipline | Track cycling |
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Current team | End of career |
function | driver |
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RV Comet Delia 09 | |
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Last updated: July 11, 2014 |
Wilhelm Ludwig Trost (born October 6, 1924 in Cologne , † March 14, 1977 there ) was a German track cyclist .
Even before the Second World War , Willy Trost, who competed for the Cologne-based club Komet Delia 09 , was active as a racing driver. In 1947 and 1950 he was each German runner-up in the amateur sprint . In the 1947 track season, he won a total of 40 competitions declared as flying races (this also included omnias and time trials on short distances), plus 16 second places. With this record he was by far the most successful driver in the annual ranking of German amateurs ahead of his competitor Willy Schertle. He also succeeded in 1949 when he achieved 28 victories that season. In the meantime he started for the RC Staubwolke association. In 1948 and 1949 he won the championship title. In 1952 he finished second with Hans Westerhold in the German championship in tandem races, and in 1956 he finished third with Christian Kleinsorg .
After the end of his sports career, Trost opened the Hotel Trost in a former (now listed) building of the Kölnisch-Wasser-Fabrik 4711 in Cologne-Ehrenfeld . In March 1977 he was killed in the explosion of a residential and commercial building on Thebäer Strasse caused by arson.
Web links
- Willy Trost in the Radsportseiten.net database
Individual evidence
- ↑ Death certificate No. 2566 from March 21, 1977, Cologne registry office. In: LAV NRW R civil status register. Retrieved May 1, 2018 .
- ^ Association history. Comet Delia 09, accessed July 12, 2014 .
- ↑ Interest group for cycling (ed.): The cycling . No. 11/12/1948 . Sportdienst Verlag Zademack and Noster, Cologne, p. 4 .
- ↑ Interest group for cycling (ed.): The cycling . No. 6/1950 . Sportdienst Verlag Zademack and Noster, Cologne 1950, p. 10 .
- ↑ See: Photo of the building on Commons
- ^ Stephan Neuhoff : Fire and Flame. History of fire protection in Cologne . Edited by the Association for the Promotion of Fire Protection in Cologne eV, Cologne 2014, p. 248
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SURNAME | Consolation, Willy |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Consolation, Wilhelm Ludwig |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German track cyclist |
DATE OF BIRTH | October 6, 1924 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Cologne |
DATE OF DEATH | March 14, 1977 |
Place of death | Cologne |