Günther Schumacher (born 27 June 1949) is a retired

track cyclist Track cycling is a bicycle racing sport usually held on specially built banked tracks or velodromes using purpose-designed track bicycles. History Track cycling has been around since at least 1870. When track cycling was in its infancy, it wa ...

and

road bicycle racer Road bicycle racing is the cycle sport discipline of road cycling, held primarily on paved roads. Road racing is the most popular professional form of bicycle racing, in terms of numbers of competitors, events and spectators. The two most common ...

born in

East Germany East Germany, officially the German Democratic Republic (GDR; german: Deutsche Demokratische Republik, , DDR, ), was a country that existed from its creation on 7 October 1949 until its dissolution on 3 October 1990. In these years the state ...

, who was a professional rider from 1977 to 1984. He twice represented

West Germany West Germany is the colloquial term used to indicate the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG; german: Bundesrepublik Deutschland , BRD) between its formation on 23 May 1949 and the German reunification through the accession of East Germany on 3 O ...

at the

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(1972 and 1976), and won the gold medal on both occasions in the Men's

Team Pursuit The team pursuit is a track cycling event similar to the individual pursuit, except that two teams, each of up to four riders, compete, starting on opposite sides of the velodrome. Race format Both men's and women's events are competed over ...

Teams

* 1977: Citizen (West Germany) * 1978: Citizen (West Germany) * 1979: Citizen (West Germany) * 1980: Citizen (West Germany) * 1981: Kotter (West Germany) * 1982: Unknown * 1983: Unknown * 1984: Unknown

References

External links

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Günther Schumacher at databaseOlympics.com
1949 births Living people German male cyclists Cyclists at the 1972 Summer Olympics Cyclists at the 1976 Summer Olympics Olympic cyclists for West Germany West German male cyclists Olympic gold medalists for West Germany Sportspeople from Rostock Olympic medalists in cycling Medalists at the 1972 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 1976 Summer Olympics German track cyclists Cyclists from Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania {{Germany-cycling-Olympic-medalist-stub