Dieter Kemper
Dieter Kemper ( born August 11, 1937 in Dortmund ) is a German racing cyclist. He won several German and European champions and world champions once.
Life and career
Amateur
Dieter Kemper began his career radsportliche like many other cyclists of his generation with a so-called " First Step " race in Dortmund- Stoke 1957. Despite numerous crashes ended the later world champion of this race in second.
A career change - Kemper was before his cycling career active and successful water polo player at SV Westfalia - he did not go through the system of ordinary youth race, but began his amateur career immediately as a C- drivers. During this time he went for the cycling club RV Petrel Dortmund, where he remained a member during his pro career.
As a young amateur, he became within a week by winning three road race from the C to the A- driver. 1960 Kemper NRW state champion, won the race in Hanover and Herpersdorf and finished at the German Championship in fourth place. However, a 7 and a 23 place in the Olympic elimination race brought him to participate in the Olympic Games in Rome, though he finished the season as ranking first.
Driver
On January 1, 1961 Dieter Kemper signed a professional contract with the torpedo team and became a fellow of Hennes Junker man. In the summer of 1961 Kemper participated in the Tour de France in part, but crashed heavily and had to give up days later invalidated.
A few weeks later began a career driver career that lasted almost 18 years for the then 24 -year-olds. In the years 1963 to 1966 Kemper was four times German champion in the 5000 meter individual pursuit at the World Championships he was third twice in this discipline. At the same time he started his career as a six-day driver: With Horst Oldenburg as partners celebrated Dieter Kemper in the season 1964/65 his first victory in Munster, which he followed 1966 years together with Rudi Altig in Berlin, Frankfurt, Cologne and Bremen four first places allowed. His first European Championship stayer won the Dortmund 1967 Westfalenhalle.
Within the next two years, he repeated his European success in Dortmund. He was with Horst Oldenburg European champions in a two - team driving and won the German Championship criterion. In 1971 he was European champion in the two - team driving with Klaus Bugdahl, 1972 stayer European champion, third in Stayers Cup, 1973 World Cup winner of the stayers, 1974 World Cup winner of the uprights and 1975 European Championship and World Championship titles of the posts. 164 times he started at 6 - day race: 26 first, 29 second and 28 third places belong to Kempers balance.
On 5 December 1976, it came with the pacemaker race in Cologne a momentous fall: Kemper went off the role of the motorcycle crashed at high speed into the boards and was then hit by the subsequent machine hard on the head. As a result of the fall he was nine days in a coma. After that Dieter Kemper 1977 retired from cycling. He now lives in Berlin.
Win
Dieter Kemper was once world champion (1975 ), seven times European champion, eight times German champion, and two victories in the World Cup and 26 first-place finishes came in six days race between 1961 and 1977. He wore in the Tour de Suisse once the yellow jersey and won the Green. Dieter Kemper was one of the most versatile cyclist after the war; his greatest strengths, however, he played out on the track.
Dieter Kemper also cites the time ranking of the most successful stayer at the Grand Christmas Prize in the Westfalenhalle in Dortmund. He has been there five times winner and collected in the course of his career total of 53 ranking points.
Dieter Kemper wore three times (1975, 1971.1967 ) in the list of winners of the Dortmund Six Day race one.