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Horst Gnas (born 3 September 1941) is a retired German cyclist who specialized in
motor-paced racing Motor-paced racing and motor-paced cycling refer to cycling behind a pacer in a car or more usually on a motorcycle. The cyclist (or stayer in this case) follows as close as they can to benefit from the slipstream of their pacer. The first paced ...
. In this discipline he won the
UCI Motor-paced World Championships __FORCETOC__ UCI Track Cycling World Championships in motor-paced racing Motor-paced racing and motor-paced cycling refer to cycling behind a pacer in a car or more usually on a motorcycle. The cyclist (or stayer in this case) follows as close as ...
in 1971-1973 and finished second in 1970. He teamed with the famous Dutch pacer Bruno Walrave. His wife was fatally injured in a car accident while he was competing at the 1973 World Championships, leaving him with two daughters of eight and ten years old. Gnas retired from competitions in 1977 due to injuries, remarried, and opened two cleaning companies in
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and
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. His second wife Renata died in October 2008 of a sudden
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Gnas, Horst 1941 births Living people German male cyclists Sportspeople from Dessau-Roßlau Cyclists from Saxony-Anhalt East German male cyclists East German emigrants to West Germany