Rolf Wolfshohl

Rolf Wolf Hollow (* December 27, 1938 in Cologne), German racing cyclist, was during his professional career in the 1960s and 1970s, one of the most successful athletes in Germany.

Life

Rolf Wolfshohl yielded very good results in both the road race and in the cross-country cycling ( cyclocross ). He was three times world champion and 14 - times German champion in cyclocross. Once he became German champion in the road race. His greatest successes were in road cycling victory at the Vuelta a España in 1965 and in Paris-Nice 1968. During the Tour de France, where he took part in a total of nine times, he won two stages. In 1968, he wore the yellow jersey for two days of the leader and finished the race after a fall finally on the sixth.

His son, Rolf -Dieter ( b. 1960 ) was also racing cyclist. At the German Championships in 1984 he broke in a massive crash a neck vertebra and was paralyzed since then up to the neck. He died on November 13, 2011.

Today Wolfshohl operates with his wife, a cycling shop and a frame building shop (brand " rowona " ) in Köln -Rath and sits in the cycling club RSC le loup hard for the support of young a. The club " Le Loup " has the name of its founder and chairman Rolf Wolf hollow; because the French could not pronounce the last name correctly, he ( "The Wolf ") was called Le Loup.