Wilfried Peffgen
Wilfried Peffgen ( born October 1, 1942 in Cologne ) is a retired German racing cyclist.
Wilfried Peffgen tried in his youth first other sports such as handball and football, until he landed in cycling and has been acclaimed as 16 -year-old German road champion Junior. In 1962 he finished fourth in 1964 and second place in the German road Amateur Championship. At the Olympic Games in Tokyo in 1964, he was sixth in the road race and a year later German road champion. In 1965, he played for the second time the Tour de l' Avenir and secured the victory on the first stage in Cologne and thus the yellow jersey. The UCI Road World Championships 1965, he recommended himself to the seventh place for a career in the professional camp that began at the Cologne Six Days in December 1965.
The Cologne drove 190 Six Days, most of them with his longtime partner Albert Fritz. He brought it to 16 wins, 41 second and 29 third places. However, his greatest successes on the track had Peffgen than stayers. Three times - in 1976, 1978 and 1980 - he was in this discipline and four times European champion together with his longtime pacemaker Dieter Durst world champion.
Four times Peffgen started in the Tour de France in 1967 in the German national team (retired ), 1969 in Salvarani team as a helper of Rudi Altig (52nd overall) in 1972 in the German Rokado team ( 63 ) and 1973 in the jersey of German professional teams Ha - ro, as he again did not reach Paris. In 1968, he could win a stage win in the Tour of Spain and can be honor as the winner at the German road championship in 1972. In the world road championship in 1972, he sailed as 16 over the finish line. Overall, he won as a professional nine road races in Belgium, Spain, Great Britain, Switzerland and the Federal Republic, most recently in 1981 in Göppingen. In 1974, he went almost exclusively stayer and Six Days and said goodbye on January 2, 1983 as Active in the Cologne Six -Days with a second place.
Today Wilfried Peffgen operates a bike shop in Cologne and has also served as sports director of the Dortmund Six Day race until 2009.