Horst Tüller

Horst Tüller ( born February 5, 1931 in Wuppertal, † June 4, 2001 in Berlin) was a racing cyclist, who won an Olympic bronze medal in the team competition of the road race in 1956.

Cycling career

Horst Tüller was a trained merchant and amateur riders successful in Wuppertal, 1951, he had won the one-day race Rund um Düren. In 1955, he decided after a week long holiday in Oberhof to a change in the GDR, where he started from 1955 to 1957 at SC unit in Berlin, and worked at the magistrate; half the salary was paid in Ostmark and the other half in Westmark. Right in the summer of 1955 Tüller won the championship of the road GDR. In 1956 he took part in the Tour of Egypt, at the road World Championship his coach took him to two crashes out of the race.

Tüller was also nominated for the total German team and joined the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne in the road race. There, he kept not to the agreements and made a foray, although his teammate Täve Schur had moved out a lead on the chasing pack with Tüller. Ultimately, the pursuers came up to Schur, Olympic winner was the Italian Ercole Baldini with two minutes ahead of four drivers Tüller took fourth and fifth place Schur. Nevertheless, the two drivers were given medals, as they finished third in the team standings with Reinhold Pommer. In the spring of 1957 took Tüller second place in the Tour of Egypt. He then decided to start a professional career and moved back to the Federal Republic.

In the next few years began Tüller partly for the Swiss Feru team and the German torpedo team. In 1957 he occupied at the German road championship in second place behind Francis Reitz. This placement he repeated in 1960 behind Hennes Junker man. In 1958 he won his only professional race in Cologne. Twice Tüller took part in the Tour de France, 1958, he finished 58th, 1960, he gave up.

Professional

1963 ended Tüller his cycling career. In 1961 he moved to West Berlin, where he first performed two lottery agencies and later laundromats. In the late 1970s Tüller started with the sport of tennis, where he played for years in the Berlin league.