Wolfgang Fiedler (cyclist)

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Wolfgang Fiedler (born January 8, 1951 in Müncheberg ) is a former cyclist from the GDR . He started for SC Dynamo Berlin , was GDR champion in road team driving and participated in the international peace drive .

youth

Fiedler was in 1967 in the youth B GDR master in the cyclo-cross race . In 1968 he won two Spartakiad bronze medals in individual road and road team driving. In 1969 he was a gold medalist in the road team driving at the youth competition of friendship and at the GDR championship of youth A. In 1970 he won the international youth trophy for future cycling aces and in 1971 the white jersey (junior competition) in the week of international cycling in the GDR .

Men

In 1971 Fieder started the GDR tour . In the sixth and last stage, he took third place. He finished 33rd in the overall ranking and third in the junior ranking.

In 1972 Wolfgang Fiedler won the Dynamo Prize in Seelow , was East German champion in road team driving (with Bertram, Brauer and Schönfeld) and second in the East German Criterion Championship. He was also a substitute driver for the GDR Friedensfahrt team, but was not used here.

A year later, Fiedler was again a member of the GDR peace trip team and this time tackled the tour. At the prologue in Prague he reached eleventh place. After the third stage, he is 32nd overall. On the fourth stage from Dubnica nad Váhom to Banská Bystrica he was at the front in the first mountain classification after 20 kilometers. On the descent at kilometer 42, Fiedler had a hard crash, had to give up the race and was taken to the hospital. It turned out that the optic nerve in his left eye was torn and thus the eye could not be saved.

During the GDR tour of the same year, Fiedler worked as an assistant to the dynamo trainer Axel Peschel .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Der Radsportler, April 4, 1973, page 1, short portraits of the GDR drivers , publisher: German Cycling Association of the GDR, Berlin, 1973
  2. ↑ Der Radsportler, January 4, 1973, page 2 f., All GDR champions in cycling at a glance , publisher: German Cycling Association of the GDR, Berlin, 1973
  3. ↑ a b Der Radsportler, October 4th, 1973, page 2, Iron Will Can Move Mountains , publisher: German Cycling Association of the GDR, Berlin, 1973
personal data
SURNAME Fiedler, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German racing cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH January 8, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Müncheberg