Winfried Boelke

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Winfried Boelke Road cycling
Winfried Bölke (right) with Francis Bazire (left) and Flaviano Vicentini (center) at the award ceremony at the UCI Road World Championships in 1963
Winfried Bölke (right) with Francis Bazire (left) and Flaviano Vicentini (center) at the award ceremony at the UCI Road World Championships in 1963
To person
Nickname Gustav
Date of birth May 25, 1941
date of death January 26, 2021
nation GermanyGermany Germany
discipline Street
Most important successes
UCI Road World Championships (Amateurs)
1963 bronze - road racing

Winfried "Gustav" Bölke (born May 25, 1941 in Genthin ; † January 26, 2021 in Dortmund ) was a German cyclist .

Athletic career

In the 1960s, Winfried Bölke was one of the best German racing cyclists and dominating cycling personalities in the Ruhr area around Dortmund, where he was only known by his nickname "Gustav" Bölke, which goes back to his father. As an amateur he started for the Sturm Hombruch club . After his victories at the German road championships in 1962 and 1963, at Rund um Köln in 1963 and fourth place at the road world championship in 1962 and third place at the road world championship in 1963 , he switched to professional drivers that same year.

In the paid warehouse, Bölke won the German Road Championship three times in a row in 1965, 1966 and 1967 . Only Hennes Junkermann managed this hat trick before him and no German professional after that. In 1968 he narrowly missed the fourth title in a row when he was beaten by Rolf Wolfshohl . In 1967 he was also German champion in two-man team driving on the track (with Klemens Großimlinghaus ) and second in the Dortmund Union Prize. In 1967 and 1968 Bölke started with the German national team in the Tour de France . His greatest success in the Tour of France was a second place on the sixth stage during his first participation; in both years, however, he left early. Bölke occasionally drove cross-country and six-day races , where he achieved his best result in 1969 with second place at the Six Days in Münster. But he focused primarily on the road season, where he drove for the teams Peugeot-BP (1964-1969), Batavus-Alcina (1969/70), Bika-Milupa (1971) and Rokado (1972) - a team that by the mattress manufacturer Robert Kahl, based in Holzwickede, was sponsored.

In total, Bölke was able to win 12 road races as a professional, most recently the Kaistenberg Tour in Switzerland in 1970. In 1973 he ended his career at the age of 32 due to health problems and from then on worked as a municipal employee. At the age of 45 he attempted a comeback as a so-called reamateurised professional and in 1986 he once again made it to the amateur A-class . In 1993 he finally resigned from active cycling.

Winfried "Gustav" Bölke died on January 26, 2021 at the age of 79 in Dortmund.

successes

Street

1962

  • MaillotAllemania.svg German amateur champion - road racing

1963

1964

1965

  • MaillotAllemania.svg German champion - road race

1966

1967

  • MaillotAllemania.svg German champion - road race

1970

  • Kaistenberg tour

train

Web links

Commons : Winfried Bölke  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Mourning for Bölke. In: bdr-medienservice.de. January 26, 2021, accessed January 26, 2021 .
  2. ^ Association of German cyclists (ed.): Radsport . No. 22/1962 . German sports publisher Kurt Stoof, Cologne, p. 3 .
personal data
SURNAME Bölke, Winfried
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bölke, Gustav (nickname)
SHORT DESCRIPTION German racing cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH May 25, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Genthin
DATE OF DEATH January 26, 2021
Place of death Dortmund