Egon Adler
Egon Adler ( born February 18, 1937 in Großpösna in Leipzig ) is a former German cyclist. He started for the SC rotation Leipzig.
The early career
The trained roofers in 1958, in part for the first time at the Peace Race and immediately won the longest stage of Görlitz to Berlin. In the overall individual competition he finished an excellent 5th place. He repeated the following year, where he won two more stages for this success. In 1959, he also was able to win the silver medal in the two - team driving in the GDR championships.
The 1960
In 1960 he again won two stages and took over after his victory at the 9th section of the first yellow jersey of the overall leader of his team-mate Manfred white leather. After white leather had torn from him by his success on the 10th stage of this again, Adler went on the way to his hometown Leipzig in turn to yellow. His lead in the overall standings, he was able to hold until he crashed hard on the final day. After he had fought zoom on the replacement machine straight back to the peloton, he suffered a defect and finally lost the connection to the main field. The hitherto leading in the team standings GDR team ordered their captain Täve Schur and white leather to support backwards. More than 150 km drove the trio behind the peloton, without reaching the peloton again. After so both eagle and white leather were robbed of their chance to win, Erich Hagen won the final stage in Berlin and thus, Single bring the victory of the German Democratic Republic, both in the and in the team competition in the bag. Egon Adler ended his third peace trip on the 7th Place.
In the XVII. Summer Olympic Games in Rome took eagle together with Schur, Hagen and Günter Lörke part in the inaugural 100 -km team time trial. After Lörke had to rise early from the wheel in scorching heat, eagle tormented over the remaining kilometers. Part of it was this pushed by Schur. Nevertheless, the four drivers won the Olympic silver medal.
At the end of the successful Peace Race team to Schur, Adler, Hagen, white leather, cornerstone Bernhard and Johannes Schober was voted team of the year in the GDR.
The late career
Egon Adler took part in 1961 for the fourth time in a row at the Peace Race, but was unable to match the success of his previous appearances. He also finished in 5th place at the Track Cycling World Championships for Stayers 1965.
After his career, Adler served as an independent taxi operators. His son Uwe Adler could not achieve the success of the father in the eighties as a cyclist.
Achievements
- Olympic silver medal in the 100 -km team time trial 1960
- Five stage wins at the International Peace Race (1958-1960)
- Three Friedensfahrt stages in the yellow jersey