Heinz Richter (cyclist)
Heinz Richter ( born July 24, 1947 in Schlegel ) is a former racing cyclist from East Germany. In 1972, he won an Olympic silver medal in the team pursuit.
Life
Richter began as a hockey player in Zittau and joined with 17 years of cycling. After he became third in 1964 and 1965, second in the East German youth championship in the individual road driving, he moved in 1966 to the SC Dynamo Berlin, where he trained with Rolf Nitzsche, which also originally came from Zittau. 1967 Richter won three East German championship: in the time trial over 1000 meters, in the individual pursuit and team pursuit. All titles successfully defended judges in the following year. At the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City, he retired with the DDR - four in the first round of the team pursuit of, in the time trial, he finished tenth.
For the web - Country GDR judges drove in 1969 the three countries struggle against the Netherlands, Italy and the USSR in the 4000 -m team pursuit. Together with Thomas Huschke, Bernhard Bernd Gruner and writer, he won all three races. Against Italy, the East German foursome drove 4:29,4 minutes new German record of the GDR and Weltjahresbestleistung for cement paths. At the end of the respective comparisons of the GDR won 8:7 against the Netherlands, 8,5:6,5 against Italy and lost 8,5:9,5 against the USSR. In August 1969, Judge started at the Track World Cup in Brno in competition at the 4000 -m team pursuit. In the same cast as in the previous countries fighting ( Huschke, H. Richter, Gruner, recorder), the East German team finished fifth in qualifying in 4:37,13 minutes. In the quarterfinals, the four then met on the USSR. Despite an increase in 4:32,73 minutes, the GDR team lost by 81 hundredths of a second against the USSR and thus missed the semi-finals. In the same year won his third Heinz Richter DDR title in the time trial and in the individual pursuit.
From 1970 to 1972, he won three times in a row, the East German titles in a two - team riding along with Thomas Huschke. At the World Cup 1970 Thomas Huschke, Heinz Richter, Herbert Richter and Manfred Ulbricht reached the final in the team pursuit, after the victory of the West German foursome received judges with his first international silver medal. A year later, faced off in the finals of four from Italy and from the GDR opposite; Huschke, Herbert Richter, Heinz Richter and Uwe Unterwalder again occupied the second place. The third silver medal at the highlight of the year in a row won the East German foursome in the same cast as in 1971 at the Olympic Games in Munich behind the quad from the Federal Republic of Germany.
Heinz Richter was a trained fitter. After his athletic career, he moved from the People's Police to the People's Army, where he was cycling coach, today he runs a bike shop.
He was honored for his sporting achievements with the Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze in 1972.