Winfried Bölke

Winfried " Gustav " Bölke ( born May 25, 1941 in Genthin ) is a former German professional cyclist.

Winfried Bölke belonged in the 60 years of the best German cyclists and cycling dominant personalities in the Ruhr region around Dortmund, where he was with his nickname Gustav Bölke known. After his victories at the German Road Championships in 1962 and 1963, at around Cologne in 1963 and a fourth place finish at the Road World Cup 1962 and the third at the Road World Championships in the same year he moved to the professional drivers.

In stock paid Bölke was in 1965, 1966 and 1967, winning three times in succession the German road championship. This Hattrick managed before him only Hennes Junker man and then no more German professional. In 1968, he just missed the fourth title in a row when he was struck by Rolf Wolf Hollow. In 1967 he was also German champion in two - team movement on the path ( with Clement Großimlinghaus ) and was second in the Dortmunder Union Prize. 1967 and 1968 launched Bölke with the German national team at the Tour de France in 1967 and could be the second to the sixth stage, but different both times out prematurely. Bölke occasionally drove cross country and Six Days, where he met the second place in the Six -Days in Munster reached in 1969 his best result. He focused primarily on the street season, where he drove for Team Peugeot -BP (1964-1969), Batavus Alcina (1969 /70), Bika Milupa (1971) and Rokado (1972 ) - a team of the resident in Holzwickede mattress manufacturers Horst Kahl was sponsored.

Living in Dortmund " Gustav " Bölke could win as a professional road race 12, 1970, the last Kaistenberg Tour in Switzerland.

In 1973, he finished his career as a 32- year-old and worked on the health-related resignation as a city employee. At the age of 45, he tried a "comeback" as a so-called reamateurisierter professional and managed in 1986 there again the rise in the Amateur A-Class. In 1993, he finally came back from the active bicycle racing.